Wake up.. they need your wallet they do not care about watchers. 😛
What they do is inventing in a new business opportunity just for them.
They will never support again with spare parts their own previously produced equipment.
Before two weeks I send email to Philips headquarters so to get specific information of the type of my woofers from speakers produced in 1992-94 .... Their answer : We do not have data that old .. WHAT? Who erased them ?
My Answer : Their new financial advisers.
Bottom line, they will never see my wallet again, and the same goes for Technics and for AIWA if they ever show up..
That's a cool looking amp! I've never come across those particular amps before. It would appear they used the same power tube (50H-B26) in conventional push-pull OPT as well: Technics EAA-2009/SU-2009/SU-40A/Technics
jeff
Technics was indeed Panasonic's high end line that they marketed.
As I remember, back then, Panisonic did nor even want the general public to know that as the Panasonic components were relative garbage..
Hopefully their new stuff doesn't end up the product of lowest bidder craftsmanship, as so much stuff does now.
For home use one alternative good choice is the Sanyo Plus series Q25, that is direct drive too and with good quality arm, with metal parts only in the crucial points.
I had score two of those at 1/3 the price of SL-1200 ( at 1992), I did operate them for 10 Years, then sold the second and kept the other which I still have it.
Picture just for reference.
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/OTQ3WDE0MDA=/z/SXgAAOSwq5lTmi8L/$_57.JPG
I had the SL1200 Mk2, sold it for £100, what a mistake. Still the arm was very poor but could be upgraded.
There was a blurb on the nightly news last week about a company introducing a laser scanning turntable for records. I didn't catch the name of the company.
Laser scanning turntables have been on & off for decades now… IIRC as early as the early 80s.
dave
dave
SB-R1... Well, well, will keep my M1 and waiting for new pristine filters made by Audio Tubes Service in France ! ...They saved my tweeters but filters are Dead... And what a shame to make cabinets with stupids bolts... Who serve to nothing ! They glued all the wood !
maybe slightly later?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable
Finial might have been first out of the gate with a prototype, but timing and the products dubious advantages - i.e. among other things it "read" the dirt and dust, and they ultimately went broke.
But not to be disuaded, Mr Chiba forged ahead, and has been offering bespoke builds since 1997 - so it took only 25yrs from W Heine's initial concept to market 😀
LT-Ultimate | ELP Laser Turntable
$19,000 USD? - I can think of better ways to blow that much cash - gimme a Rega P3 or used Linn Basik and I'll keep the change, thank you very much
Just never was a fan of the Technics SL series myself, did rather like my Kenwood KD500 (SME or Formula 4 arm, can't remember - maybe both?) . My only other direct drive was Dual 701 - a rather under-rated unit in my opinon.
It's not looking that way across the line: Speaker System SB-R1 | Reference Class R1 Series | Technics Canada
Flat concentric driver. Interesting.
It has a hole in the box.
this means the best it can offer is highly distorted bass.
same as any other ported box.
this means the best it can offer is highly distorted bass.
same as any other ported box.
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