The new armtube is made of cold-drawn magnesium, and the gimbal bearings reveal zero wiggle or twist. The SL-1200's lamentable tonearmeasily the chintziest thing about that turntablehas been reimagined.
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According to the RPM Pro app on my iPhone, the Technics spun at precisely 33 1/3 rpm and produced an impressive 0.014% wow/flutter measurement. The coreless motor eliminates cogging, speed anomalies resulting from the interaction between rotor magnets and stator slots on standard electric motors. (The balance of each deck is said to be adjusted at Technics's factory in Malaysia, on equipment used to evaluate bullet-train wheels.) The nearly 8lb platter is a sandwich of brass, aluminum, and rubber it feels more precise, luxurious, and stable than any I've handled.
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Too much has already been written about the SL-1200G to require a full treatise on its construction, but some aspects are worth mentioning. Everything about this tanklike 39.7lb device feels different. When I lifted the SL-1200G from its box this spring, the twinge in my upper arms told me this was not the DJ turntable of the Clinton years. When the time came, I returned the Technics to M without a pang of regret. But compared to the Rega, it sounded wooly and vague, and after a while I missed the British deck's better-defined, more-refined presentation. Powering thousands of dance floors worldwide, the seemingly unbreakable SL-1200 made music sound locked in and effortlessly propulsive, providing a different sort of drama from the lightweight Rega. The direct-drive Technics, though, went places the belt-drive Rega could not reach: Instead of the lighter 'table's dancing way with rhythm, the Technics produced an iron-fisted sense of drive and deeper, more physical bass. One of the most recommendable turntables I can think of, the Rega imbued music with an excellent sense of rhythm, a decent amount of detail, and gobs of excitement and drama. I had been playing LPs on a Rega Planar 3. A member of the homegrown DJ brigade, M was taking a break from his gear for reasons I no longer recall. In late-1990s New York City, seemingly every coffee shop, hair salon, and picnic featured someone with two SL-1200s, a mixer, and a crate of records (a predicament immortalized by a DJ spinning graveside at a funeral in Zoolander). That deck had belonged to my friend M, who had lent it to me for what turned out to be almost a year. But similitude is a powerful thing while auditioning the SL-1200G, with its familiar pitch slider, strobe light, and hinged dust cover, I couldn't not think about the SL-1200MK4 I had lived with and thoroughly enjoyed when I was in my 20s. The similar model designation didn't help stem the griping that Panasonic had made a "fancy" version of their legendary DJ turntable at six times the price of the original.īy the time the regular-production SL-1200G was released later in 2016it was almost identical to the SL-1200GAE and cost the samemost people had realized that this was an entirely new design created for audiophiles, not a new version of the old 'table that had come to be used mainly by DJs.
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It appeared almost identical to an SL-1200arguably the best-selling and most loved record player series of all time, discontinued in 2010 after more than 30 yearsbut it cost a whopping $4000. This turned out to be the case in 2016, when Panasonic introduced the limited-edition Technics SL-1200GAE turntable. People tend to believe that things are what they appear to be.
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