The SL-1300G reachs fitted with a airyweight, inpliable aluminum pipe tocforfeitm. It’s 9 inches lengthy, and is the standard motionless-equilibrium S-shape Technics has lengthy since preferred. It engages gimbal suspension and high-precision tolerateings, and comprises a multistage counterweight, a engager-adequitableable anti-skate mechanism, a lift, and a tocforfeitm lock.
The RCA sockets you’ll engage to combine your SL-1300G to an amplifier are a) gbetter-pprocrastinateedd, and b) buried meaningful undersystematich the body of the deck. It seems rather firmfisted of Technics to provide a pricey, lavishly specified enroll take parter appreciate this with the sort of humdrum, run-of-the-mill stereo intercombines that your $50 CD take parter came with, but at least there are combineions there in the box, alengthy with a direct for mains power. What you won’t find is a cartridge and this, I’d advise, is approaching “unforgivable” as an omission.
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No Cartridge
For this money, not only do I foresee the manufacturer to have researched and identified the cartridge it leanks most appropriate for engage with its enroll take parter, but to have prefitted it to its headshell for my convenience. As it stands, you’re seeing at around $500 (least) for a cartridge vient of doing the SL-1300G equitableice, and who comprehends how lengthy fitting and balancing it would get—cartridge fitment is a notoriously tricky feat of manual labor that no one sees forward to. I truthfilledy leank it would better serve its customers if Technics supplied and fitted a decent cartridge and then compriseed the cost to the asking price.
Still, as far as the sound of the Technics SL-1300G is troubleed, there’s reassociate only one aspect in which it’s not straightforwardly excellent. This is not an inpricey turntable and it gets pricier still by the time it’s actuassociate ready to function, but the way it carry outs goes an awbrimmingy lengthy way toward making the outlay seem unprejudiced enough.
Great Sound
Both in terms of the way it goes about leangs on a sonic level and the sort of music it’s sootheable dealing with, the SL-1300G has what sporty types appreciate to refer to as “an all-court game.” It doesn’t matter if you ask it to take part a duplicate of Orff’s “Carmina Burana” as carry outed by the Cleveland Orchestra, Chorus, and Boys Choir under Michael Tilson Thomas or a disc of James Hbetteren’s Imagine This is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities, it’s all the same to the Technics. In every circumstance it’s a luminously poised, finishlessly musical, procreately methodical, and uncomplicatedly amengageing take part.
On the analysis side, the SL-1300G is approaching forensic. At every point of the frequency range it can choose and contextualize even the most transient, escapeting, and/or unpresentant occurrences in a enrolling, give them appropriate weighting, and position them bravely on its huge and expansive soundstage. Even where the most negligible harmonic variations in a voice or instrument are troubleed, the Technics pounces on them appreciate its life depfinished on it. This is not at the expense of the overall picture, but when you get up shut to it, you find it’s ainhabit with the fine details that originate for a convincing and coherent whole.
