Anyone heard the Micro Seiki DDX1000?

Good decision, but there are some unbelievable values in DD tables since they have been out of fashion for 20 years or so. Psychicanimal uses the Technics SL-1200 with some of the enhancements available and he believes that it is competitive with all but the top ranks of belt drive tables. You can even buy a new one. I find my Micro MR-711, which sounds quite a bit better than the DDX1000, to constantly surprise me. If you can get around the stigma then you can have a bit of fun.

I have always had better luck with belt drive tables but here is food for thought: Both the Rockport and Goldmund Reference tables were direct drive designs.....

I have an old Teac TN400 which was the contemporary of the DDX1000. The Teac sounded better but it is even rarer than the DDX. The big deal with the DDX was that it took three arms. The few people that I remember owning them had put sorbothane footers under them and sat them on marble bases.

As owner of a Micro Seiki DQX 1000 I would like to add something to this forum :
To start from the most important - this direct drive turntable sounds excellent to me. Actually it does not add its own sound, it is a variable which can be removed from the equation. You will be able to judge other components like arms and cartridges.
Some recommend the use of copper mat to be placed on top of the platter in order to make it sound warmer especially when used with solid state electronics.
There are no issuess associated with the direct drive motor which I can find.
The induction type motor is based just under the platter but it is well enough isolated . At least there is no noise which I can detect. In any case the level of noise generated should be lower than
the one of my tube pre-amplifier (12AX-7) as I don't hear it.
To my understanding a good feature mechanically is that there is no friction of parts .
There is one central pivot shaft which rotates (caused by induction ) and the platter sits on it, that's all.
The quartz control - I don't use it.
The quality of materials and craftsmanship :
I have not seen better anywhere.
The platter is made of aluminium. it weights 2.9 kg and is coated from the underside.
The mounting of the arm base to each one of the 3 legs is metal to metal directly .
There are 2 types of arm bases - standard made of aluminium and the ones designated with G (gun metal).
The G is very heavy. Should provide better decoupling of the arm.
So this deck is all metal work.
As regards the 3 feet isolation:
Yes, they are the only thing that isolate the deck but like it is with all it is a good idea to place it on a dedicated stand.
And there are the bigger Micro belt drive decks of course.
Best to all

As a former DDX1000 owner one of the great sonic upgrades in my system was replacing the DX1000 with an LP12. The DDX1000 was easily the best looking and worst sounding high end turntable I have ever owned. As mentioned above it was extremely feedback/vibration sensitive the issue being that it lacked both mass and an effective suspension. Most likely today an isolation platform would be helpful but it also had a tendency to speed drift that was easy to see with the giant strobe marks cut into the platter.
I will say that it was an attention getter and I loved the ability to mount multiple tonearms & Cartridges (I had a Grace 707 and Black Widow)but it all comes back to the sound and it was severly lacking in that area.