Product Description
The Technics SL-1300G is a turntable with a Hi-Fi design featuring ΔΣ-Drive, a new motor drive technology that delivers high rotational accuracy and low vibration. The turntable’s new motor, three-layer platter, and high-rigidity chassis ensure even higher sound quality.
- Coreless direct drive motor achieving stable rotation
- ΔΣ-Drive suppresses vibrations from the motor for smoother, more accurate rotation
- Anti-vibration structure with a three-layer platter and a two-layer chassis
- Low-noise, low-voltage power circuit and a switching power supply
- Tonearm achieving high Initial-motion sensitivity
- High-rigidity body and high-damping silicon insulators for smooth sound and isolation from various vibrations
Technics SL-1300G Fills $2000 Gap With Sonic Excellence
The “sweet spot” in the Technics turntable lineup?
Technics has a turntable problem most turntable manufacturers would be happy to have. The company’s SL-1200 introduced in 1972 and in continuous production until the “death of vinyl” in 2010, only to return to production with the “resurrection of vinyl” in 2016, is iconic. More than 3.5 million were sold and many are still in use.
Because it’s iconic and instantly recognizable, Technics wisely chose to maintain the turntable’s oft-copied basic looks and even keep the 1200 number, while continuing to upgrade the “under the hood” mechanical and measured performance (though there was considerably blowback from DJ community grouches regarding the re-introduced SL-1200Mk7 because it wasn’t as heavy as the older discontinued 1200 and cost more).
The benefits of maintaining the industrial design and even the basic model number are obvious, but so are the drawbacks: people see “same” and think “same” as anyone perusing YouTube comments knows.
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Technics’ New $3300 SL-1300G Turntable Combines SL-1200GR2’s ΔΣ Drive With $4300 1200G’s Platter And Motor!
Produces a “happy in between place” in the Technics turntable lineup
The Technics turntable line-up can be confusing. Lots of models, lots of numbers and superficially they can look identical but they are not! A few days ago at IFA in Berlin, the company launched a variety of products including this new SL-1300G turntable. While it may appear to be a helping of “number salad”, it’s actually very significant product launch.
Simply put, the new $3300 1300G combines the highly evolved ΔΣ Drive motor drive system introduced last year in the $2200 SL-1200GR2 reviewed here last year, with the considerably upgraded platter and iron-coreless type double rotor/single stator motor of the $4300 SL-1200G. However, this motor has been further upgraded from the SL-1200G’s with a newly reinforced coil mounting circuit board, said to further reduce mechanical vibrations.
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