YP-700
(1972 - 1975)

Belt-drive record player which was perhaps produced by CEC - Micro Seiki was mainly overbooked with high and ultra-high end commissions. It is only when Yamaha started to tackle the idea of tangential tonearms that a team was gathered around Mr Moshida.
The YP-700 was, btw, also available as a Sonab 75S, in black and with a different, j-shaped, tonearm.

Simple mid-fi with dual-floating system and a tonearm's gravity center placed right at record level - both being touted as "Yamaha's unique features". The cartridge shown here is also Yamaha's unique CG-7000 - a 0.7 spherical diamond rebadge of... somebody else's !