EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different?

In_Shore and Logenn, you are both right - and Audiogon is a good place to exchange ideas. Maybe when I retire which is a good 10 years or more ahead I will start a Vintage Online platform. We should provide free access but also keep a golden club corner - for the most vintage looking guys among us :-)

Best & Fun Only

There was a (Japanese?) review of 10(?) 'big guns' in
which EMT 927 got the first price.
Suprise somehow stimulate our memory. That is , I assume, why I rembember.
To compensate for such a 'poor' info I will add two
references:
www.janvanvliet.nl (the Dutch specialist for EMT );
Deutsche Perfektion ( Enjoy the music, March 2002).

Regards,

Micro Seiki received a cool welcome over here in North America specifically of the RX 5000 debut with a brief negative comment in the Absolute Sound magazine then year's later by Art Dudley of Stereophile.
For the mostpart from what I can gather flipping through vintage TAS, Stereophile including other not so well known audio magazines from the 1970s and 80s Micro Seiki's entire product line were largely ignored along with EMT including some of the sought after now vintage tone arms and cartridges.
Mark
Today with audio manufactures and reviews the sale's pitch revolves around superior material ,superior machining ,innovative idea's and design concepts that eclipse anything from past product's.

Thuchan, and maybe put out a yearly calendar with monthly pics featuring a different Golden Club member in a speedo.... NOT!! :)

Dear all,

Golden Club member of the month - sure, we will reserve a special corner... The Micro 8000 seems to be a bit superior due to it's many advantages regarding the usage of different arms and modern cartridges.
On the EMT 927 you may use an EMT 997 ( vintage vesion, maybe best with an EMT JSD 6 cart) or an vintage Stereo Ortofon tonearm.

As the "Tondosen" are already on the market since 45 years - of course with improvements in the last years - it is still difficult to mount a modern low impedance but heavy cart on the Ortofon RMA 309 for instance. At the weekend I succeded soldering a A-90 cart into an EMT J-shell with the square EMT-connection. Maybe I am the first trying this. The result is very promising and shows that the EMT table is a grand champion. I played a very good pressing of "Rumours" and found it is worth "Going Your Own Way" . The sound is deeper, stronger and really more powerful than with the more on the musical side playing TSD's. BTW the 45 rpm Rumours repressing of 2009 is a bit more on the bright side.

Hans in the Netherland is doing a real good job, also providing vintage parts for the EMT connoisseur.

Best & Fun Only - Thuchan