It is a mystery why this technology has not been adopted or licenced for use in modern high end turntables. When you consider the cost of modern high performance turntables from the likes of TechDas, SAT, Dohman, SME, VPI, Linn, Caliburn and a slew of others, it seems to me to be a significant omission not to have this or a similar facility in modern turntables costing five and six figure sums. Many brand new and used records have 'off centre' spindle holes that need correction. The round file diy system seem to be the only 'solution' that we have at present? There would be an additional cost of course, but if you are aiming at the absolute high end such a 'centring system' ought to be part of the design. It is ironic though that Japanese engineers (presumably) designed this system back in the day when 'off centre' records were probably extremely rare or perhaps non-existent from the domestic Japanese pressing plants, if our experience is anything to go by?

Nakamichi truly were the epitomes of Japanese audio engineering. Technology and sound quality worth every penny.

When I first heard of this feature on the Nakamichi turntable I thought it was just a gimmick. However your video proved me wrong. This feature does make a difference in sound despite the heavy digitized compression through You Tube.

Why don't they make this anymore? It blows those $10K+ turntables out of the water.

Back in the mid 80's, the retail price for this turntable was about $2200. That's roughly $5700 in today's dollars. I find it extremely irritating that today, in 2020, there are turntables selling for this price that positively primitive in comparison to this. (In some cases, they don't even have a speed control, you move a belt from one pulley to another.) There's no reason in my mind that for $6000, a turntable like this could be manufactured again combined with the highly advanced Sony Biotracer system, without selling for some absolutely absurd price. I guess these never had much of a market demand. All of the patents to these unique systems should have all expired by now.

It doesnt fix out of round. It fixes off center. Nothing i know of has fixed out of round

Great table if you have 6-8 grand to spend.

Why can't a high quality device like this be made today? In the 1980s there was some very high quality audio equipment. Yet now much of the audio equipment is junk

do u do voiceovers for a living???

Niro Nakamichi san, he's a genius

Those developers at Nakamichi were pretty ingenious. They offered top-notch quality in every field they worked in. I just had to recall their DAT-1000/DAC-1000P combo. Too bad they went out of business. There is almost no place for their kind of works anymore these days. A sad reality, that is.

Amazing engineering and precision.

Thanks for sharing incredible machine and great solution to coommon problem that no one ales as far as I know has addressed,they only concern is long term reliability and finding someone to fix if it goes wrong.

Great to see this table demo, thanks for putting the video up to share.

Nice mechanism, more modern than 99% of modern turntables.

Well, I wish this were available today. I am just getting back into vinyl and this would be an incredible improvement! Thanks for sharing.

Incredible, thank you for sharing!

Brilliant product. Thanks for posting it.

Never would have thought there was a difference, until I heard it here.

Just a stunning machine.👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍