Micro Seiki, or TW AC-1


I'm trying to decide between Micro Seiki RX 5000 and TW AC-1.
They are approx. the same price used (about $10K)
Both are belt drive.
Unfortunately, I don't have a first hand experience with either of the tables.
You can see my current set-up in my system page.
The reason, I want to make a change from DD TT to belt drive is just to try a different approach.
Also, I have a feeling, that the bass would be one of the areas, where MS and TW might have an edge over my current DD Technics SP-10 MkII
My endeavor into analog is fairly new, so I'm not sure what my final choice in analog would be, unless I try it in my own system.
What I'm really interested in is the following:
Sonic differences b/w MS, TW and Technics SP-10 MkII
Reliability
Service availability.
maril555
RadicalSteve, glad to read your endorsement of the TT-101. I don't have it in a lead or any plinth but I do use a Merrill lead mat under an Achromat. My only fear is the inevitable integrated circuit disintegration. But I will spend the money to have it repaired - if possible - when that day comes. I recapped it last year - so less concern there.
Marill
My experience over a ten month period with a newly purchased two motor Raven ac was in fact a negative one.
Swapping arms from one table to another quickly proved fatal to the Raven.
I suppose that I possibly could of taken delivery of a lemon however the sound reproduced from that table was dead.
Steve, Glad you have come to enjoy the L07D. Does the TT101 have coreless motor? I would have guessed that it has a Denon-like motor, i.e., iron core.
I hate to interject subjective, 'system-dependent,' synergy-type thinking here, since despite my subjectivist leanings, I tend to think of turntables in terms of accuracy, speed constancy, low noise and neutrality, but is some of the difference here in views, apart from ergonomics or aesthetics or sheer 'funk' value, attributable to sonic 'system' matching, in the same way we recognize synergies with other components? I'm not advocating an agenda here, but wonder if some of the diverging views have to do with what else is in the system and its overall sonic character?
In_shore,
Could you please elaborate on the sound you heard from TW?
And what other table/s you compared it to?
Thanks