Coincidentally, of course, with the heyday of the vinyl record. Between 19 the beginning of the CD era was the high-time of these OEM models. They also supplied the mail order companies Quelle, Neckermann here and RadioShack in America. Mostly, however, they limited themselves to the supply of entry-level models at renowned hi-fi companies, such as ADC, Denon, Sharp, Toshiba, Hitachi, Sanyo, Sansui, Kenwood, Telefunken, Saba or Scott. For Luxman they have traditionally designed and manufactured all models. For many large HiFi manufacturers without their own turntable production, they offered therefore also whole OEM lines. But they only earned money with the big series. The Nakamichi TX1000 and Dragon CT were also made by Micro Seiki. A DQX 1000 or the BL91 knows every vinyl fan today. It was also a leader in research and development of drives, chassis and arms. They were specialists and, in contrast to Dual or PE, remained a pure turntable manufacturer. No other company has ever cracked their gigantic numbers. Fujiya Audio, led by gifted engineer Junichi Okumura (Dragon CT and Accutrac Technology Developer), MTC, Mito, Denso, Akisawa Seiki and Saitama Micro, was the world's largest turntable maker at the other end of the world. (Text below found on a German website I cannot find the website anymore please contact me for a permission) Micro Seiki had several subcontractors such as.
funnily enough, but smaller) but no longer seems to be willing or able to supply turntable products. The company still exists as a precision engineering workshop (much like competitors Avid Hi-Fi and SME ltd. Company ran into trouble in the late 90's and stopped making turntables and providing spares for their older products in 1999 with the exception of a high end variant of the 8000 turntable that was made to order well into 2001.
A Japanese manufacturer of turntables, used to manufacture mid and high end turntables and electrostatic headphones of almost legendary quality in the seventies and eighties but turned to the manufacture of high end and reference class turntables in the 90's.
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