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TechDAS Air Force Zero Debut at Audio Salon—First Impressions Stun Listeners
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 24, 2019  |  First Published: Apr 24, 2019  |  31 comments
Let's just say I went into the TechDAS Air Force Zero's recent debut at The Audio Salon in Santa Monica with a great deal of skepticism. A big, lumbering turntable featuring an enormous and massive multi-layer platter system seemed like a prescription for over-damped, ill focused sound. What we heard those two evenings was anything but! By the way, what you see towards the bottom of the platter is not a reflection. That is the lower part of the platter!

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Technics Announces New Reference Class SP-10R Direct Drive Turntable
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 31, 2017  |  First Published: Aug 31, 2017  |  17 comments
Technics will be showing at IFA 2017 (Berlin, Sept.1-6) a brand new edition of its legendary SP-10d direct drive turntable. The new SP-10R shown in the above picture is slated to debut in the summer of 2018.

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Analog Gear NewsCES 2017
Technics Introduces Appx. "half-priced" SL-1200 GR Direct Drive Turntable
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 06, 2017  |  First Published: Jan 06, 2017  |  17 comments
At CES 2017 Technics introduced a new SL-1200GR direct drive turntable priced at approximately half of the $4000 cost of the Sl-1200G introduced at CES 2016. It's expected to appear in stores over the coming summer

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Technics Launches New Limited Edition SL-1210GAE 55th Anniversary Turntable
Michael Fremer  |  May 28, 2020  |  First Published: May 28, 2020  |  14 comments
Based on the Grand Class SL-1200G, the new 1210GAE is wholly made in Japan with a "significant level of hand-made processes" and features a full black anodized black brush hairline finish and black buttons.

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CES 2018
Technics Launches SL-1000R and SP-10R Direct Drive Reference Class Turntables at CES 2018
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 08, 2018  |  First Published: Jan 08, 2018  |  45 comments
AnalogPlanet got invited to ta pre-CES Show opening launch of the new Technics SL-1000R and SP-10R Reference Class turntables and the sound was impressive! This was the first time these turntables were shown working and the sound based on about an hour of listening on the eve of the show's opening day was impressive!

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Technics Sarasota, Florida SL-1200GAE Preview Event March 24th
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 29, 2016  |  First Published: Feb 29, 2016  |  16 comments
Sarasota Florida area readers take note: Encore Home Entertainment Systems hosts a March 24th Technics SL-1200GAE turntable preview event from 7PM-9PM.

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Technics SL-1200G Versus Continuum Caliburn And SAT Arm
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 31, 2017  |  First Published: Jan 31, 2017  |  73 comments
The Sl-1200G review will post shortly. Meantime, here's a comparison between it and the Continuum Caliburn fitted with the SAT arm, both fitted with a Lyra Etna cartridge.

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Technics SL-1200G Versus Continuum Caliburn And SAT Arm--File Identities Revealed
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 11, 2017  |  First Published: Feb 11, 2017  |  40 comments
The file labels were not reversed in this story!

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Technics' SL-15 Automatic, Programmable, Direct Drive, Tangential Tracker
Michael Fremer  |  May 04, 2015  |  First Published: May 04, 2015  |  12 comments
Lyra Cartridge CEO Stig Bjorge collects some vintage audio gear. The Technics SL-15, introduced in 1981, is among his favorites. Recently, he found one for sale in America and he asked me if I'd pick it up for him in Princeton, New Jersey, which happens to be the home of The Princeton Record Exchange.

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Teens Agree! Vinyl Sounds Better
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 21, 2006  |  1 comments

When Nicholas Cage, holding up a Beatles LP at the beginning of \"The Rock,\" said \"These sound better!\" kids must have been listening!

The truth wins out!

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