Did anyone catch CBS Morning News' interview with Norah Jones? She had some high-end audio gear (not all that I could ID in a split second) but front and center was a piece of Shindo gear (an integrated amp?)? Course she was playing on a Technics 'table!
I find the technics turntable resurgence interesting , it was not a great sounding table in the 70/80's ( been there done that) it had poor chassis isolation vs my Linn or AR Table and hence poor bass ...
There's a reason they do such , well at least the ones i have been exposed to and after listening to live music all day , it's hard for any HI-FI System to impress ...
I find the technics turntable resurgence interesting , it was not a great sounding table in the 70/80's ( been there done that) it had poor chassis isolation vs my Linn or AR Table and hence poor bass ...
i've recently owned the Technics SP-10 Mk2, and the SP-10 Mk3 in modern plinths and i'd say both off these 70's/80's tt's more than hold their own once set in a good plinth and mounted with a modern arm.
sorry but the Linn or AR are not in the same league.
those direct drive motors and drive systems were built with real 'big-boy' budgets from a large corporation and surpass many of the modern designs. you need to spend big bucks to get better. and i had both of these in my room sitting next to my Rockport Sirius III for a few years.
there are a number of vintage tt's from that era which can compete with better of today's designs.
now the SL-1200 mK ?? is not in the same catagory as the SP-10 Mk2 or Mk3; but it is not bad. i could see feeling that this level of Technics is surpassed by the Linn and AR. btw, i did own a couple of different AR's back in the early 70's......a long time ago.
I find the technics turntable resurgence interesting , it was not a great sounding table in the 70/80's ( been there done that) it had poor chassis isolation vs my Linn or AR Table and hence poor bass ...
Which Technics? There were a million different mid-fi models. I agree with Mike that the SP-10 series are very special. I own one and I love it. Ditto for the SME 312s arm. I'm never going back to short tonearms again.
I don't know if you were around in the '70's, Mike, but Linn pretty much made its reputation by showing how much better the LP12 (and this was the original LP12, prior to the multiple upgrades since) sounded than the Technics SP10 series. Likewise for Ariston, Oracle, etc.
Just another reason I have to chuckle at everything about vinyl's "resurgence"...
I don't know if you were around in the '70's, Mike, but Linn pretty much made its reputation by showing how much better the LP12 (and this was the original LP12, prior to the multiple upgrades since) sounded than the Technics SP10 series. Likewise for Ariston, Oracle, etc.
Just another reason I have to chuckle at everything about vinyl's "resurgence"...
I was around in the 1970s and I don't remember Linn touting their table as being better than the SP-10. Of course I'm not surprised that Linn would do that because they felt whatever they sold was better than any of its competition.
I don't know if you were around in the '70's, Mike, but Linn pretty much made its reputation by showing how much better the LP12 (and this was the original LP12, prior to the multiple upgrades since) sounded than the Technics SP10 series. Likewise for Ariston, Oracle, etc.
Just another reason I have to chuckle at everything about vinyl's "resurgence"...
The weakness of the SL-1200 family has always been the arm and the awful mat. By the time only DJs were buying, the mat was replaced by slipmats, even worse.
Congrats!
