Technics doesn’t simply make a turntable, it makes the turntable. For many years, there hasn’t been a DJ value their salt, or a venue value its alcohol license, that doesn’t depend on Technics SL-1200 turntables to get the get together began and hold the get together going, evening after evening.
However ever since its rebirth in 2014 following its inexplicable termination by mother or father firm Panasonic in 2010, Technics has been on a mission to reveal that there’s extra to the model than now-discontinued DJ decks. It want to set up itself as a producer of high-end high-fidelity stereo tools that deserves to be spoken of in the identical breath as these long-established audiophile manufacturers.
The newest product designed to boost its status for elite-level tools is—you guessed it—a model of its report participant, the SL-1300G. Sure, it ticks fairly just a few of the “Technics turntable” design packing containers established many years in the past, however this isn’t a turntable to be flung at the back of a van and hauled from gig to gig advert infinitum. This can be a premium merchandise, manufactured from premium supplies, and properly well worth the premium price ticket that’s connected to it. Or, not less than, that’s what Technics hopes.
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The New SL
There definitely appears to be some justification of the asking value should you decide the SL-1300G purely when it comes to heft. This can be a substantial 29 kilos, and it’s constructed from appropriately luxurious and tactile supplies. From its very sturdy, extraordinarily pliant and completely engineered silicone rubber insulators (that’s “ft” to the likes of you and I) to its clear Perspex mud cowl, the SL-1300G is 6.8 x 17.8 x 14.7 inches of uncompromised and uncompromising engineering.
A full 8 kilos is accounted for by the platter. It’s a three-layer monster, constructed from aluminum with a hefty slice of brass throughout the highest and an excellent heftier amount of vibration-deadening rubber throughout the underside. It’s extremely inflexible, rejects resonance like no one’s enterprise, and ensures easy rotational stability and loads of inertial mass.
It sits on a chassis constructed from bulk molding compound with a layer of die-cast aluminum throughout the highest, and it’s turned by a motor that’s had an terrible lot of consideration paid to it. It’s a motor based mostly on the “coreless” direct drive rules Technics first launched in 2016.
