The Melco was a spectacular sounding deck. I recall hearing one in Stockholm many years ago, deeply impressive.
In the late 70’s a Japanese guy Be Yamamura (who also ran a Sushi restaurant in Soho) was importing them usually fitted with FR arms, along with Kondo’s AudioNote cartridges & earliest amplifiers. He was putting together systems that were way more ambitious (& expensive) than anything anyone else was doing. They’d do presentations at London hotels and would shock the journalists & enthusiasts of the time who were otherwise used to a diet of Linn & Naim as being the ultimate in high end gear.
A bit about Melco here. Funnily enough the same company who recently returned with their range of streamers.
Yamamura stayed in the UK til the mid/late 80’s, custom building fairly extreme equipment & systems for people but eventually moved to Italy & still does it there.
http://zero-distortion.org/yamamura-horns/
Would love to find one of the Air 211 amps he was making in the early 80’s. Lovely sounding things. Most went to Denmark I think. PQ used to get them from him & sell them there.