Very successful series of LP drives which were sold in Japan and Germany. In other words: the last two markets really alive with high-fidelity... today !

All tagged with the HMV logo (His Master's Voice) and original components of the Laboratory series, these were either sold as drives or as integrated players, complete with Victor's UA tonearms and CL-P plinths.

While Sony was butchering with absent-minded marketing its own best efforts (TTS-8000), Pioneer only taking a dip once (PLC-590 & PA-5000), only Denon and, to a lesser degree, Technics executed this kind of program as proficiently as Victor.

However, it was mostly Victor's professional LP players that were widely accepted in the japanese studios with big guns like the JL-B1000P, the original Victor professional record player the TT-101 series and later TT-801 came from.

And if the TT-101 series is almost completely unknown outside Japan and Germany, it is nevertheless one of the best LP record player system ever made, tonearms included.

Do click the buttons to the left for the entire and extremely detailed descriptions of each drive, all translated from the original may 1977 japanese catalog !

The UA-7082, UA-7045 and UA-5045 tonearms, CL-P bases, X1 and Z1 cartridges
will all be posted separately at a later date.