Technics SL-1300G New Generation Grand Class Turntable

[DSJR]

I was mainly relating to the then audio press and belt drive manufacturers used the inaudible (to most) cogging as a reason to buy their gear. Now, subtly, Technics is saying "we rectified that (even though it was not a real world issue for most people) now our gear is better than ever" that they sure used the negative that others said & turned it around. Great marketing, after leaving the market totally for a while. Take a non-existent negative, fix that "problem" so it cannot be an imagined "problem" & now: 'better than ever'.

Technics SL1200 SL1210 - SL-1210 SL1200 modifications

Technics SL1200 - SL1210 - SL-1210 SL-1200 SP-15, SP15

www.soundhifi.com

The peeps in the link made a pretty good living modifying the Technics 12** mk2 models and I maintain that *some* of the thinking was sound, as regards the under-platter mains transformer removal (my SL1500s have the transformer shielded and under the deck plate) and maybe the performance of the regulators used. They even did one mod which reduced the torque a bit, but you can decide if that was fashion or a genuine 'improvement.' There was an entire thing on the ArtofSound site once regarding heavy platters (then very light ones) and all sorts of jiggery-pokery to this deck that hobbyists love. I can't be a*sed with this sh*t any more

 

[EJ3]

Technics SL1200 SL1210 - SL-1210 SL1200 modifications

Technics SL1200 - SL1210 - SL-1210 SL-1200 SP-15, SP15

www.soundhifi.com

The peeps in the link made a pretty good living modifying the Technics 12** mk2 models and I maintain that *some* of the thinking was sound, as regards the under-platter mains transformer removal (my SL1500s have the transformer shielded and under the deck plate) and maybe the performance of the regulators used. They even did one mod which reduced the torque a bit, but you can decide if that was fashion or a genuine 'improvement.' There was an entire thing on the ArtofSound site once regarding heavy platters (then very light ones) and all sorts of jiggery-pokery to this deck that hobbyists love. I can't be a*sed with this sh*t any more

In the USA, I have personally had some good results with these folks regarding Technics Turntables.
There is quite a bit of DIY available from them, too. So peruse their catalog of gear.

KAB Electro Acoustics http://www.kabusa.com

 

[livinon2wheels]

Now we're talking!
Thank you!

black...so you can see the dust collecting on the plinth...unless of course you live in a dust free home

 

[EJ3]

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There is gold, too, so that the pollen can be matched when the black is covered in it.
(My heating and AC system uses the same filtration as the space station does and I have 2 large industrial HEPA filtration systems in my home [my wife has allergies to the pollen in this area]. But, from the street, you cannot find my home due to the camellias and azalais that are as tall as my roof (+ the 4 steps above ground that my house is).
No, I did not grow them that way and they were not blooming when I moved in. After the blooming season last year, I cut the ones close to the house down to about 6 feet.
That did not help much from the viewpoint of pollen getting into the hose when we enter or exit.
Since I am only here for a few years, I don't think that cutting them down to the ground and digging the stumps up and burning them is a great idea BUT that is what I would do if I were going to be here permanently.

 

[EJ3]

I bought many really expensive turntables, but as long as they went around at the correct speed, fitted with the same arm and carts hardly any difference.

At one time I used these two Technics SL12 ‘Monarchs’ same table same arms, different cartridges, same two phono stages , I found it interesting interesting but customers seemingly not so much, suspect they would prefer to ‘believe’ .
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They look wonderful. I would have had fitted acrylic covers made for them, though.

 

[EJ3]

Love the discussion in this thread of magnesium used in the highest-end Technics tonearms. U-Turn sells turntables starting at <$300 that use a one-piece thixoformed magnesium tonearm, so let's dispense with the idea that magnesium is some sort of high-end, unobtanium finery in such applications.

Technics is gorging on the fat wallet audiophile crowd with their current offerings.

My 1984 Technics SL-M3 uses a titanium nitride tone arm...Just wondering?

 

[EJ3]

OK:

Technics SL-1210G Grand Class at Crutchfield ($4,299.95, backordered)

It doesn't get much more mainstream than this.



I'm with you on the audibility of this stuff above the level of the level of my SL-1500C. The 90/10 rule still applies.

But the notion that these prices are outlandish in the landscape of audio products seems unsupported by Technics' own price lists from the 1970s.

I do like the way that Technics Marketing department attacked the myth that there was an audible problem with "cogging" according to the rubber band types and "fixed the non- existent cogging problem" to successfully out market the rubber band TT companies.