psag-In 1980 I owned a Dual 701 direct drive turntable. At the time, my older brother owned a Technics SL-1200. He lived two miles from me in north Seattle. From time to time I would listen to vinyl at his apartment. The Dual was noisy compared to the Technics which was dead quiet. A Technics fan boy? Your damn right I am! "but so what?"..you just don't get it. The Technics SP-10 motor's from years ago weigh a ton and are constantly in demand on the used market. Technics makes the only direct drive motor's on the planet that have the same low noise level's of the best belt drives which is why they never stop selling and are always in demand by the most die hard vinyl fans. "thousands of great turntables currently available" ..where? on the planet Zerton?
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!
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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