YP-1000 open Yamaha shot to popularity in the HiFi component world on the success of its "White Wood" (Castor) series of products like the CA-1000 integrated amp (1973) and NS-690 speaker (also 1973), but when it came to turntables its lineup was limited to entry level and intermediate class models having older designs, without a model that could match up with the CA-1000.