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TECHNICS 100th Anniversary 2018 Premium Turntables. Their best ever.

I discovered this morning that Technics announced at CES the about to be released later this year their premium Special edition 100th Anniversary Turntables. Head and shoulder's above the SL-1200G and SL-1200GR. The two new models are the SP-10R, which has an outboard power supply with no tonearm and will retail for $10K. Panasonic claims the SP-10R has the highest S/N ratio in the world against any belt drive or direct drive tables on the market. 
The other model is the all in one unit including tonearm, the SL-1000R which will retail for $20K. Only one word comes to mind looking at the pics this morning of the SL-1000R, DROOL! They upgraded and improved the coreless motor thats in the SL-1200G and SL-1200GR models. SME and SOTA, eat your heart's out!
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cleeds
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schubert
Cleeds, Denon was far from all out and I imagine you didn’t live there for 3 years.
The Denon DP-80 motor cost about $800 when I bought in new back around 1980, the equivalent of about $2,900 today. That was for the motor only; I mounted it in a VPI two-arm base and don’t offhand recall the cost. I think it was the best direct drive turntable of that era - much, much better and more versatile than the Technics. But the best belt drive turntables walked all over it. I'm not sure what you mean by me not living there.
cleeds
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audiozen
Technics makes the only direct drive motor's on the planet that have the same low noise level's of the best belt drives
You've overlooked a few of its competitors, e.g. the VPI direct drive.
cleeds
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schubert
When the Japanese go all out nobody can beat them .
 That's just silly.

The two best days I had with my Denon DP-80 was the day I bought it (new), and the day I sold it.
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