The quality of its engineering and execution makes typical audiophile products look slightly homemade, and I'm willing to bet that it will remain as bulletproof as the legendary DJ deck on which it's based. ' can think of few turntables that offer as much value as the SL-1200G. Greene, The Absolute Sound, Product of the Year Award It honors music in a truly profound way.' And if you do, I think the Technics SL-1200G will be on your short list no matter how much money you can afford to spend. As always, it is a good idea to keep an open mind and open ears. 'People ought to be ready for the idea that a really great example of turntable design need not cost as much as a luxury car if enough engineering expertise is directed at the problems. In addition to its priceless heritage, SL-1200G, like all Music Direct products, comes with the 100% Music Direct Satisfaction Guarantee. An instrument worthy of passing on to your heirs, SL-1200G also comes with a dust cover, 45RPM adapter, balance weight, headshell, phono cable, and set screws.

A pitch slider and strobe light reside here, too. Push-button 33, 45, and 78RPM control abet a stop/start button. Supplied auxiliary weights support a massive range of cartridges. Utilizing lightweight magnesium for high damping properties, and cold drawing to improve the material characteristics, it employs Technics' traditional gimbal suspension construction wherein the horizontal rotation axis and vertical rotation axis intersect at a single central point – as well as high-precision bearings using a cut-processed housing. Speaking of the latter, Technics' nine-inch universal static-balance tonearm – with 149 different parts – looks and sounds like luxury. As does a shielded case for the brass-milled, gold-plated phono terminals for maintaining signal purity. High-grade support feet add to the package. The 39.7-pound SL-1200G boasts an equally impressive plinth, featuring four layers of different material (hairline-processed 10mm-thick aluminum top panel combined with die-cast aluminum, BMC, and heavyweight-class rubber) to ensure rock-solid firmness and steadfastness. The result: Incredible inertial mass and smooth operation. Similar obsessiveness goes into building the nearly eight-pound, three-layer, ultra-rigid platter – comprised of brass, die-cast aluminum, and a noise-deadening rubber on its underside.

Just how seriously does Technics take each SL-1200G? The balance of every model is adjusted in the factory via specialized, high-precision adjustment equipment (also used to evaluate bullet-train wheels) for each and every item after the turntable gets assembled. No wonder TONEAudio proclaims 'you'll never notice you aren't listening to a $30,000 turntable.' In sum, SL-1200G plays vinyl LPs with equal parts fun, capability, neutrality, refinement, richness, dynamics, and focus. Moreover, its twin-rotor construction reduces the bearing load all the while maintaining high torque. Equipped with a newly developed coreless direct-drive motor with no iron core and perfectionist-oriented electronic speed control, SL-1200G permanently ends any possibility of cogging – or rotation irregularity. Winner of multiple international audiophile awards and the enhanced successor to one of the most commercially successful and long-running analog products in history, the Technics SL-1200G direct-drive turntable is all about exquisite craftsmanship, diligent engineering, terrifically balanced performance, and reference-class speed stability. Technics SL-1200G Offers Exquisite Craftsmanship, Balance, and Stability: Superb Direct-Drive Turntable Plays LPs with Expressiveness, Richness, Dynamics, and Focus

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