Neat old Technics Turntable meets rubbish new speakers
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- Testing new speakers with a built in phono preamp & taking a good look at a classic Technics SL6 turntable.
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I think that you are overly harsh on yourself Mat. I enjoyed the video immensely. I really look forward to your work and dedication that shows in everything that you make. Take care.
Agreed. This was so good!
I bought a fully automatic Denon turntable and Q speakers off eBay because I was inspired by Techmoan. Sure, the models aren't the same and the amplifier has wonky knobs, but it works for me.
I agree and it's a shame that someone can swoop in and steal all that hard work for a 3 second clip you can't even hear. Absolutely criminal that CZcams has created such a toxic system that allows people and companies to steal others hard work and effort. And if you try to fight CZcams punishes you if you lose. Toxic.
Too bad he'll never read this comment
I love this channel. ❤️😊
Oh don't get me started on YT's copyright claims. One of my friends spent well over a month fighting a bogus claim on the music he used for his intro/outro that he wrote, composed, and preformed himself.
Oof i feel this. Used my own music in a video and was claimed by a third party even though I whitelisted the video with my distributor. Claimed by some random person and never got solved so I just reuploaded and it was fine
Time to move to vimeo me thinks...
Yeah, I don't like how YT's copyright claim system favours the sending end rather than the receiving end, without any kind of middleman option (I can't properly describe what I'm talking about here) and I don't think they will ever fix it.
@@kbhasi I know what you're talking about. In the consumer industries they call it an Ombudsman. I guess with youtube you just have to take them to court.
What really fucks *me* off though is the absolute mockery they're making of the system. 2 or 3 (or up to 10, really) seconds of a song playing in a youtube video is NOT piracy, it's a fucking ADVERTISEMENT you convex spoons!!! Go leech off twatheads who upload entire songs! The only reason he puts titles in the description is because people ask for them with the intention of acquiring the full track (legitimately or otherwise!). They should be paying HIM for that.
This is all rather reminiscent of Nintendo filing DMCA strikes against gamers.
The record industry hates its customers and treats them like idiot criminals.
That turnbtable looks sweet. A shame that now since it's been on the Techmoan show it'll now triple in price.
Nukleon Well, good thing I bought one a while ago, then.
@Nukleon
This was when Panasonic (Technics) was really at the top of their game with innovation, quality, and performance of their audio gear. I remember when these were NEW and they were very expensive back in the mid 80s.
@@purplesabbath9057do you want a medal?
Colin Johnston I'd prefer a trophy, actually :P
@@purplesabbath9057 How about a blue peter badge lol
Those speaker grills were enough to scare me away. They scream cheap.
Auna is a piece of shit brand entirely i haven't seen anything from them that wasn't pure garbage
Seriously, the automatic mechanisms on the turntable are cool and all, but that pop-up single adapter just blew my mind.
What a cool feature!
Every question I had they had already thought of. I really wish we'd see more of this kind of thoroughness in modern products!
Pop up 45 adapters were a common feature of many record players made in the 60s.
Look for a Bang & Olufsen Beogram. Most have that feature. I personally use the RX2 and 9000. Love them both. Very high quality, but also somewhat delicate. They use a weight system to determine record size. Though this Technichs looks very lovely as well.
Thorens TD 124
The little 1960s turntable (Stella, model unknown) I inherited from an older brother who had left home for university when I was at primary school had a "single adaptor".
It wasn't entirely clear what it was for, until one day I borrowed some singles from a friend up the road and saw one had a tabbed ring cut into it the same size as the adaptor (so the centre could be punched out to make a huge hole).
In New Zealand, singles mostly all had the same centre hole arrangement as LPs.
My high school physics teacher picked up one of those Technics linear turntables in the mid-1980's and it was very impressive (and expensive) at the time. I ended up with a used direct drive pivot tone-arm Technics mid-range model that was in near new condition by an amazing stroke of luck for a fraction of the price.
Good speakers were only available at high prices, so in the 1980's it was not uncommon for enthusiasts to select and buy drivers and crossovers, design and build their own cabinets and get better results than the average affordable speakers of the day. This applied to amplifiers as well. I built my own amplifier at high school and my own speakers a few years later. This was more cost effective for mid-fi gear because import duty was so high back then that one had to be somewhat wealthy to afford mid-fi, let alone hi-fi. Ampifiers and speakers were something you could build yourself, saving money for components that could not be home made (turntables, cassette decks).
Wow, what a turntable. They've really thought of everything. This pleases me. And having shaky hands, the fully automatic ones are always my favourite.
Since I also prefer direct drive and Quartz Lock, I'll be trying to get me the SL-Q6 in the future.
@Naomi Baron
The old Panasonic company tag line was "Just Slightly Ahead of Our Time".
The company really was nearly at the same pinnacle of their game in design, quality, performance, and innovation back in the mid-late 80s.
19:40 that attention to detail is honestly incredible. I have a different, simpler, technics turntable i inherited (SL-D3) but i find everything made by this company just fascinating and so well thought out.
The speaker grills on those iffy speakers are IKEA table mats!!!
You should open the speakers. Wouldn't be surprised if they have weights in them.
@@misterhat5823 I would bet small bags of sand or trash
I returned them and got a refund.
@@Techmoan Ah, you mentioned you requested one. Good that worked out for you.
Yeah, I was hoping for a teardown as well!
I would suspect that:
1. The weight comes mostly from oversized, yet relatively weak, ceramic magnets on the "woofer". These may *look* impressive, but they're crap.
2. No port or relief of any kind -- it's an acoustic suspension design (essentially, a sealed box) except for whatever air leaks around the fixtures on the back (or the crappy non-grommeted wire in the back of the passive speaker) which, in such designs, is a *very* bad thing.
3. No damping material (e.g., fiberglass insulation) of any kind. This is pretty much required to eliminate resonance peaks based on the dimensions of the box and the free-air resonance (and suspension compliance) of the woofer.
4. The "tweeter" is not sealed at the back, so it's getting beat to death by the woofer. In really crappy designs, you will actually hear the tweeter cone rattling or crackling at any significant volume level. In the worst case, this can actually rupture the tweeter cone.
5. Ridiculously thin walls, hence the horrible "hollow" sound when you tap on them.
I would not be at all surprised to learn that at least one, if not all, of the above are true, which is why they sound so awful. :)
It says a lot when an artist makes a claim for 3 second clip in a video.
Sad isn't it !
Ray Parker Jr. Better known as the grand DADDY of McDonalds burger flippers these days. What a legacy, from "I'm afraid of no ghost" to "how d'you like your coffee, dark roast?" He was hoping that they would use his questionable hit for the second Ghostbusters movie, to take care of his retirement fund. But like many failed pop stars, they cannot see when their time is up. I bet he is still touring dive bars as a support act to this day, to fill in when the headline act stop to take a piss.
@@Ndlanding Yeah, I heard about that controversy. Did 'M' make a successful claim against RPJ, I don't quite remember?
It may not be the artist...instead it might be a 3rd party, a management company etc...
@@hermanmunster3358 It's ironic seeing as his biggest hit was an obvious and direct lift from Huey Lewis and the News.
A new Techmoan video. The best way to spice up an otherwise dull Sunday.
That pop-up singles adapter is extremely convenient, holy cow!
I recall alot of them got stuck down in the begining. Or people were heavy handed with it.
MY DAD HAD THAT EXACT RECORD PLAYER WHEN I WAS A KID!
I spent so much time listening to the Star Trek the motion picture soundtrack on it and I used that tape machine to record Adventures in Odyssey every Saturday. This video is a real trip down memory lane.
"Now if you exclude the audiophiles who hate everything I do-"
Remember that test where audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between music played through some crazy expensive wiring and a coathanger? Hahahahaha
No, need a link
@@dustinwheat4096 Can't find the original article op refers to, but it sounds like this gizmodo.com/audiophile-deathmatch-monster-cables-vs-a-coat-hanger-363154
A lot of those people just wanna show off their expensive gear, but have SHIT hearing.
Depending on your system, wires DO make a difference, both signal and speakers, but with modern more efficient speakers and digital amps, it doesn`t matter as much as it used to.
Still I have definitely heard bad sound from good speakers, helped clean it up and see a happy music lover smiling in his lazyboy.
It`s just that it all depends on what you have ;)
People who run 200W towers through a 1mm cable and have 1500 dollar amps and feed them through a 2 dollar aux should be hung in public tbh..
But hey, if you have bad hearing, you won`t ever know, so what the hell :p
@@afrog2666 There was an argument between two audiophiles in a forum regarding which had better audio quality - a cartridge attached to the tone arm with aluminum screws versus brass screws on some $30,000 stereo setup. Just when you thought it couldn't get any more ridiculous.
@Formu Oli No true Scotsman..
That “Free” reference was a deep dive, my man! 😎
As a fellow refugee from the ‘70s, I salute you!!
Oh man, a circle wipe.. Brutal!
However it’s no star wipe
Damn, that Technics turntable is fantastic
I'm going to get me an SL-Q6, now that they're still cheapish. Unlike the overpriced SL-1200's
I'm an audiophile and I love your stuff! I think you're talking about audiophools.
Also an audiophile and I agree completely. This is one of my favorite channels.
@@benjammin2020 there you are! Stop giving techmoan a hard time dude!
Also known in any tech related field (photography, computers, cars, etc) as measurebators.
If you are 30+ then audiophile term is equal to placebo.
Human hearing degenerates over time.
I bet if your computer hard drive was analysed by the police, they would find thousands of deleted images of pre teen speakers, turntables, amplifiers and the like. You BEAST!!!
I've had an SL-10 and then got the chance to upgrade it to the SL-15 - fantastic machine. These Technics turntables are, as you say, very well worth considering.
Back in the 1980s, I bought a SL-7. The big point for me at the time was it would run on 12 volt as well as A.C. 120 (yes in the States). I still have the same unit and yes it still works great these last (just under) 40 years.
Yes it also had clamp built into the lid when closed would hold your vinal in place. I use to impress my friends picking up my turntable while playing their music, and holding the unit upside down. Was fun to see their faces when I did that.
For those who want to know, at the time it was $500 US, but mine was open box demo sale for $300.
Why would you want a cassette deck in this day and age? Well, why would you want a radio tuner? Why would you want a CD player? Why would you want a turntable? The answer: because I want it.
I have a cassette deck - a late-model Pioneer dual deck. Not high-end by any means, but it does still sound pretty good. I don't use it a lot, but every so often I enjoy the tactility of dropping a tape into the machine and hitting PLAY.
I have a similar argument regarding my 8-Track. Don't judge me.... lol
Indeed. And "Because it's there" is always a fine reason, too. :)
I love my hifi/home theater setup. It gives me genuine joy to sit on the couch after a long day at work and watch TV or movies, or listen to music, in a variety of formats. It's fun to pick through milk crates at swap meets to see what I can find, or to slowly browse the racks at Reckless Records or Salvation Army. And, even better, I can share the experiences with friends.
So why would you want X in this day and age? Because life should have joy in it.
I got a Walkman cassette player.
When I hit 【ｐｌａｙ】 the world stops and I can relax.
Because they are all a few hundred pounds lighter than a grand piano?
You can't go wrong with a Technics turntable from the early 80s- regardless of model. I have an SL-L2 and an SL-D3 that both give great service and sound.
I have a perfectly functioning SL-QL15 since mid 80s! many 1000s hours runtime.
Not from the early 80s, from the late 70s. technics never made a bad turntable.
I have a similar Technics turntable, model SL- B2, that I bought in the early 80's. It still works beautifully, and I still use it.
I have the Technics SLQL-1 quartz direct drive, linear tracking turntable.
Bought it new when I was stationed in Iceland... at the Navy Exchange in 1981.
Kelly Clark that’s what I’ve got too. That’s the only turntable I use now.
@@romangilfanov6921 it's always been a fantastic turntable!
If you have a line on where I can get a new cartridge and stylus, I'd sure appreciate it!
Kelly Clark www.lpgear.com/category/T4P.html
I have the Technics SL 5. Same as this but without the track skip functions. A cheap upgrade is to get a JICO stylus (SAS, or shibata shape). The combination of this and the original Technics cartridge (usually branded p22, or p24 etc - they are all the same) is an unbelievable sound quality. It's nice to think that a Japanese company like JiCO know how good this Technics cartridge is, and although the Technics cartridges no longer made this upgrade that offer is second to none. The quietest surface noise I've ever heard from a record. Being a linear tracking arm inner groove distortion to me it is undetectable.
That 'All Right Now' joke was amazing.
Paul Kossoff was in my class at school.
Though strictly speaking, Free spelled it the ungrammatical "Alright Now" way...
@@PeteC62 No, that was The Who with The Kids Are Alright. Free apparently checked with a dictionary first, or had some grammarians on board.
@@Terminus_El_Camino Dammit! To check my memory I did a Google search for "free alright now" and I could swear there were tons of hits (no pun!) of the form "alright now lyrics". They're not coming up now. It's a conspiracy, I tell you! Anyway, I should have checked an official discography. It makes sense when you think about how it's sung that "all" and "right" would be separated correctly. But, yeah, The Who...
Those speakers look (and sound ) like bottom of the line Radio Shack speakers from 1973.
Marketing guy: "So you're saying they're authentically vintage?"
Bottom of the line Radio Shack speakers from 1973 were better than half of what's being sold today at cramazon!
I've got a really nice Technics SL-6 turntable that I found at a thrift shop in Southern California. It was extremely cheap as it didn't come with a power cord and they couldn't test it. The correct power cord was a bit smaller than a standard power cord so I "resized" a spare cord I had until it fit correctly. I was very pleasantly surprised how well this turntable played and worked. Thanks so much for confirming what I thought I knew about my Technics SL-6.
I still have this exact same turntable. I found it sitting on the top of a skip that was filled with other junk so I thought I'd grab it and see if it worked, and it did, though the linear tracking arm was prone to sticking, which was presumably why it was thrown out. That was back in 1995 iirc. However, a bit of lubrication later and it worked absolutely fine and remains so to this day :) This is a really great turntable for anyone who is more interested in listening to music rather than comparing spec sheets
The Technics SL-6 is the turntable I used to have in college (although mine was black). There was another advantage to those models: it's impossible to scratch your records (I'd qualify that with a "nearly" if I could even recall one instance of it happening) while playing the record -- ie, there was no way to make the tone arm jump or skip. That was really great in a dorm situation where you weren't always in control of what other people were doing.
Also, I believe you do need to leave a small gap between the back of the turntable and the wall - not much: 0.25 to 0.5 inches, just because of the way the cover is hinged.
Neat catch on the record sync feature. I had totally forgotten about that -- I didn't have a tape deck that was compatible with that system so I never had a chance to use it.
Last comments: you alluded to problems with certain types of records... There were a few others that caused problems: like irregularly shaped records... I used to have quite a collection of special records, like the Police's "Badge" record (i.ebayimg.com/images/g/u2AAAOSwJ8BcqSxq/s-l1600.jpg) that wouldn't scan...and several others. Also, I found that the track scanner was unreliable when the gap between tracks was too small...and at that time many records didn't leave much space between tracks. I ended up not using the track scanner all that much.
There ate still loads & I mean loads of people still using cassettes, I'm a member of 2 Facebook groups, who have thousands of members, about audio cassettes, cassettes & cassette decks, are still alive & kicking.
I had one of these SL-6 LT's, fantastic little machine! I did end up swapping it out for an SLJ-300R, yes its lighter build but it does have quartz lock, and the sensors are more accurate. Mine came from the UK too, thanks Ebay!
20:59 you're the man for this one, Techmoan ! Not even many Hip Hop heads know about Godfather Don.
@@AmstradExin I already knew he likes rap music because i saw bits and pieces of his music collection across some videos but Godfather Don, though? I never expected Techmoan to even know about Godfather Don. He's still super underground for someone who's been around for almost 30 years.
How incredibly petty. I would have thought the records producers and distributors would be only too happy to have their older records listed in newer videos, as people might actually go out and buy them.
Love your videos, Techmoan. They're among my very favorites on CZcams. Keep 'em coming!
I have the Technics SLQL-1 linear tracking turntable.
Bought it in 1981 at the Navy Exchange in Keflavik, Iceland.
Still works great!
As an audiophile with a pretty good HiFi setup, that Cassiver or whatever it’s called is very cool! I’m seriously interested in it because it would reduce the amount of shelf space needed, so I can have other HiFi components on my shelves instead.
You poor man made my mistake. Auna is basically Germanys Crossley. Being german I got a bluetooth turntable from them and OH MY GOD it sucks.
You know some hipster would look at those speakers and think “such retro cool! 😍” without giving a crap how they sound. That’s the target market for all these Chinese brands racing to make the most of the vinyl/hifi resurgence as cheaply as possible. As long as it makes noise, that’s basically good enough.
It's really all over amazon.de now. I was wondering about the quality.
I agree that Auna sucks. I bought some bluetooth speakers from them recently. Can you believe that the accompanying remote control will turn the speakers off, but won't turn them on. And that's by design! They went back for a refund.
my mate recently gave me his old mordaunt short avant 916i speakers and an onkyo TX-SR605 amp. super nice gesture and great equipment, never had anything this fancy before :)
As usual an excellent video, I used you Christmas Hi-Fi videos to help me source my system though I went for a less complex sound system with the Toshiba SL-10 and Aiwa SX-NAVH1000 Stereo Speakers.
I find it to be a capable system and very pleasing to my old deaf ears.
Thanks again and keep up the good work.
Agree most current turntables are rubbish.This even makes those 1970's 80's compact Soundesign,Morse Electrophonic,Yorx ,Tandy Radio Shack Realistic,ETC stereo sets sound great today compared to the currents.
Grew up with this record player and always loved it. Still have it and would love to get it cleaned up. Always had trouble playing Elvis's Moody Blue, but would work fine with a black record underneath.
Thank you for another great documentary.My father as one of these Technics Tuntables, which he brought back in 1980, with a moving coil cartridge and a built in phono preamplifier ; he payed around £ 1k from Sevenoaks Hifi in Tunbridge wells. It only broken down once, and its still working.
I've had a Technics linear track for over ten years now, and its been great, nice to see people getting turned on to these now.
Wasn't expecting a Logic album. Respect.
"...to sum up my impressions on the build quality: there just doesn't seem to be any." Classic line!
I have been with you for years, (at least 5) your channel is one of my favorites. Miserable people are often quicker to comment than happy people. I hope to see you hit 1,000,000 subs soon.
Thanks for the great video! I currently have a technics SL DL1 turntable. I've had it since it was new. And I was thinking about upgrading to something newer like a Fluance or Project turntable. But I love the automatic features of my Technics. Thanks again.
"... results in Free. Yeah, 'All Right Now'..." God, I love your music wordplay...!😂👍❤
I like to imagine there's someone at the record labels whose job it was to go through every Techmoan video and claim any 2-second excerpt of an audio track they can find for... some reason.
Super Smash Dolls I believe that kind of work does exist, but is typically outsourced, or perhaps something an intern does.
there are actually companies that HIRE people to sit on their asses all day, comb through as much videos as they can and claim whatever they can get their hands on.
This will definitely happen, where’s there’s money to be made there will be people trying to get it!
I have an SL-Q6 that I purchased new back in the early to mid 80's and still use it as my main turntable. Only maintenance done was a cleaning and new belt and a couple of styli. Still going strong.
I love that cassiever! Would fit perfectly on my nightstand. Pretty cool for the space conscious listener.
I would use that record player along with that Technics cassiever amp. I have the record player like that one, but I didn't know about the cassiever though. I have the Technics amplifier to go with the record player but I would prefer the cassiever! I got the technics separate's from the dump. It all worked, I got a new stylus for the record player cleaned the tape heads on the tape deck. The speakers which weren't that big were surprisingly loud. I could have it at 2 and a half on the volume and that was loud enough! Some hi fi's you had to have at 5 to get the same loudness!
96Kbit mp3s played through cheap pc speakers is all anyone should ever need to enjoy their 1920s swing collection.
Thank you very much for this great video. I enjoy music very much. I like quality audio but am not an “audiophool”. I own and use the Technics SL-5 linear tracking turntable. Similar model to yours but without the direct track access. My turntable is from 1982 and still works very well. I hope you enjoy your new turntable. To those out there who were not aware of these linear tracking turntables, I say go for it. They use what is known as a P mount cartridge so aftermarket cartridges and stylus can be found from inexpensive up to crazy prices. Very nice turntable.
I love this record player, it seems that absolutely everything has been thought of!
11:52 well Mat, if I open the Shazam app on my phone while you play the record, the song gets identified pretty easily. If my phone found the song for sure the CZcams content match system is going to find it as well
Audiophiles on suicide watch after being exposed to those speakers.
I am no audiophile but those speakers sounded horrible.
Just the view of the rear with that hateful cable between them was enough to trigger me. If you want to spend this little on audio, just go second hand.
Nice channel you have, I enjoy your videos! it takes me back to my youth in the 70/80. Back in the eighties I had a Technics with linear tracking too, an SL 10. It had a clamp that pressed the record firmly on to the turntable and it had also two holes on the bottom. So you could hang it up on the wall to play it vertically and I once tried to play a record while it was laying upside down and it kept on playing!
I love your commentary. I wasn't that interested in audio gear before I found your channel, now I never miss a video.
When you mentioned the larger 45 rpm records, I was thinking if the 7 inch 33 1/3 rpm ones haha.
The solution to the track listing, is a pinned comment with the same Info, since most claimant's dont bother with comments, only descriptions, as those can be searchable, but comment's are more difficult.
i own the SLJ-3, changed the stylist and have it running on my Martin logans. it sounds amazing. One big plus is how gentle it is on my vinyl. it takes a lot of vibration for it to skip, and i love the repeat function and track selection.
Great review as ever, Mat! One common problem to watch out for with linear trackers, though, is dried-out oil on the worm drive which moves the stylus across the record. If the oil has dried out, the arm will stick and skip. Many moons ago I picked up an SL-6 for £7.95 from a second-hand shop, but it took years to track down a service manual to find out how to get at the worm drive!
That casseiver is actually amazing! I regularly make mixtapes from vinyl. I have a portable cassette player at work and a Walkman in the car which I plug in the aux. I don't really understand why people can't get down with cassettes. If properly dubbed they can sound quite nice. Certainly not the best audio source but are extremely durable and versatile. Besides I kinda dig the grimy sound and tape compression.
It's a pity that they don't make record players like that anymore. Great video, not so great speakers.
Ohh cool! I've grown up with my dad having the SL3 and the rest of a matching Technics stereo set. I always thought it was super handy and an easy way of playing records. He's actually still using the turntable, just with a different amplifier and with my ears still sounds good.
As always, an excellent video. I always look forward to new Techmoan content!
I got a turntable (can't remember the make or model number) for my 18th b/day and was disappointed to discover I had to have a pre-amp for it before I could play anything on it... Off to Tandy I went... purchased a pre amp, but I put it in the wrong way round, it still worked though... lol
It would have been a nice touch to show the cassiever set up with that matching turntable at the end, assuming you still have it.
Just want to say, Love all your videos. I’ve finished off all the retro tech videos. Looking forward to more!
Growing up in the 80's I salivated over these.... Thanks for another brilliant video!
That linear Technics record player looks like a miniature version of my Technics SL-DL5 :) The DL5 is just lacking the program functionality and determines the record size/speed mechanically (with microswitches) instead of optically. Got it from my stepdad after it spent the past 20 years in the basement. Worked first try, but started skipping/hesitating to move the arm. Replaced the one belt this thing has (for the arm, was rock hard) and it runs perfectly now, just waiting on a new stylus (uses the same ones as in this video, coincidentally)
"it looks like a duck" that really made me chuckle :)
I have a turntable from lower in that range (no program, just track skip) and I love it.
Love these old Technics linear trackers. I have SL-DL5 and the same P24 cartridge. Bought a HyperElliptical needle for it and it sounds soo good...
Technics was one of the best back in the day, love those old sets.
Yes. The old 1200 is still one òf the best ever made and will stay with any, still..
This one is great also with the track pick. The one comment about it tripling in price could very well happen.
Those are proper retro speakers - I remember junk like that from the 80s where you'd get speaker cabinets made out of compressed cardboard and cables that connected to the hifi with RCA jacks. Proper old school garbage!
They aren't retro speakers, they're new Chinese junk made to look retro
Some of those old particle board 5watt speakers from the 60s sound pretty good
@Gari Deb
I had a pair of basic line Technics "Thrusters" (SB 180) speakers from the late 1970s, and they came with the SE 1160 AM/FM STEREO CASSETTE, PHONO combo unit, and they were particle board enclosures but they sounded excellent for the price back then. I payed 129.95 for everything in 1978.
@@wuzihuzi They are not Chinese
And the centres from toilet rolls as bass ports. And fake tweeters painted onto the chip board front fascia with silver paint, disguised with a covering of cheap nylon semi transparent gauze. Ooer matron, did someone say semi?
All of your videos are always enjoyable, even when I don't have a huge interest in the subjects. Keep up the quality work!
I have the Technics SL-7 turntable, and still enjoy it occasionally. One thing that I used to do was to show people that you can stand the record player on end _(or on side)_ while the record is playing... something that none of my friends could do with their turntable. ;) *_Keep up the great work buddy!_*
What a crazy coincidence and a small world.. I knew that music sounded familiar, I pressed the Show Me record last year (as in physically pressed it, I am a vinyl pressing engineer).
The problem I have with these videos is that I want to buy every one of the items you give a thumbs-up to.
I loved my first Technics SL turntable so much that I upgraded to a quartz drive instead of replacing the belt when it wore out. One limitation is playing warped records. They tend to rub against the lid and cause a noticeable slow down every rotation. I get around this by removing the rubber mat and placing the record directly on the metal turntable. Glad to see such a glowing review!
I still have and use my Technics SL5 from ‘82 and love it.
Please make a video about Philips MFB! (Motional Feedback)
They were almost amazing. Almost because for the want of a little more effort and investment they could have produced a world beater.... They should have made an up market model. (edit..looks like they did) But as it was Philips they went for mass market - It has been done since, there are active speakers with a bass feedback mechanism. The patents will have lapsed too.
Edit..I just had a look/search and my memory is a bit suspect..I forgot about the bigger models. Would love to try them.
Would love an SL-Q6. Now, thanks to Matt, I have no chance of owning one...
What a nice piece of engineering this record player is! Many automatic features, yet there is always a simple way to override the sensors in case they don't work as expected. Beautiful.
You convinced me to purchase an SL-6 and a set of YU4s. I had been putting it off for so long but watching this video made me take the jump for a "new" player since my last one died on me. Thanks for all the great content.
I always wondered why phonographs did not have internal preamps like EVERY OTHER COMPONENT EVER MADE. Tape decks, CD, even home 8-tracks had built in preamps. Also relying on an external component’s quality and specs (preamp) to make your product work means you run the risk of people thinking your phonograph is garbage when in fact it is due to a cheap preamp.
but it also makes the product itself cheaper to produce and gives people a sense of choice - there seem to be night and day differences when it comes to phono preamps - and personal taste may play a big role here too.
Also, back when these turntables were fresh on the market, more hifi amps would have come with a built in phono stage than without.
I think the point he's making is why did this particular component end up de facto passive? Tape decks require a preamp to amplify the low-level electromagnetic signal from the head. But they're always integrated. Functionally, tape and record players are very similar. Yet one is always line level, and the other is usually very low level.
Probably down to the cost of supplying a pre-amp which would need to be switchable between cartridge types, so the makers left it out and it was up to the buyer to decide what he/she wanted. All-in-one types came pre-configured, of course.
Nice video!
Can’t believe three seconds got you content matched by some bored drone who works for the record industry. Fair use seems out the window.
And I miss the puppet outros 😁
I uploaded a batch of old TV commercials. Gorillaz claimed ownership of an infamous (in the United States) 1989 PSA with a closeup of a frying egg that said "This is your brain on drugs". If I recall correctly, Gorillaz did not exist in 1989. I disputed the claim. The matter is ongoing.
Another great video. I agree with you about the jacket-sized Technics linear trackers. In fact, I like linear trackers in general. A slightly maligned player, mainly for their complexity. However, I've found that with some basic maintenance (generally after 30 or so years without) they keep working, sound good and are very convenient to use. Keep up the good work.
I own the SL-DL5 and I love it! fantastic series, it is in my Home Theater setup!
Sadly I wouldn’t be able to use the track selector function to play my copy of Napalm Death’s seminal 1987’s “Scum” with its tracklist:
A1 Multinational Corporations
A2 Instinct Of Survival
A3 The Kill
A4 Scum
A5 Caught....In A Dream
A6 Polluted Minds
A7 Sacrificed
A8 Siege Of Power
A9 Control
A10 Born On Your Knees
A11 Human Garbage
A12 You Suffer
B1 Life?
B2 Prison Without Walls
B3 Point Of No Return
B4 Negative Approach
B5 Success?
B6 Deceiver
B7 C.S.
B8 Parasites
B9 Pseudo Youth
B10 Divine Death
B11 As The Machine Rolls On
B12 Common Enemy
B13 Moral Crusade
B14 Stigmatized
B15 M.A.D.
B16 Dragnet
Oh well...
iv paused this at the intro, as a technician for thorn who moved then to matsushita and then bang and olufsen i can predict one thing already, matshitas turntables are legends, im not saying that as a soft lad soy boy led by trends or people who are just obsessive about the sl1200 and 1210 etc, im saying that at an amp engineer who got a whole yrs wages in a month for finding a more stable output stage!!! and their platter stability is always stunning (very few turntable manufacturers to this day still cant match on a wow and flutter meter :) enjoy enjoy :)
cool little turntable, lots of features in a small package. I have the kanto yu4 in my kitchen & love them, got them on massdrop a few years back.
Kudos for highlighting this turntable. The SL line of compact parallel trackers from Technics were excellent. I have an SL7 and it is a superb sounding little TT. To improve the sound I recommend an Audio Technica AT85EP P mount cartridge which will significantly elevate the sound quality. They are very easy to fit and are a great upgrade.
Every time I watch these videos my bank account screams in fear
Every time I watch these videos I get the urge to call my mother. To thank her once more for gifting me her vintage Pioneer system, because it is too big and she wanted more space. Tho there was a side effect... I had to get a DAC and a streaming box ... Oh, and I had to replace every other bit of audio equipment I had, because suddenly everything sounded awful. Mh, maybe I should rather complain to her instead of thanking her. :oP
I feel very sorry for you buying those terrible auna speakers... I went through this too when I built my first own hifi system. In fact it was exactly like you suggested at the end of the video; I got that amp with some cheap speakers, which happened to be aunas. I paid 110€ and they sound absolutely awful... I nearly bought them bundled with an auna tube preamp...
Everybody, PLEASE, stay away from auna.
It is absolutely not worth it.
Bottom line, do your research, especially if it's on Amazon. Products which don't appear elsewhere or in high street stores should immediately arouse suspicion (comments like yours help). And if it's at this kind of price, you're better off buying a reputable brand second-hand.
Great video! Wish modern record players still had features like this!
The first video of yours that I ever saw was the one with the Sony desktop "portable" system (FH-7 MkII) As I watched that video, you also showed a picture of the MkIII, which was the system I had, until the amp and one speaker were destroyed by a power surge. I had that system for almost 25 years.
That was when I decided to subscribe to your channel.
Today, I check to see what cool goodies you have, and --- THAT'S OUR TURNTABLE! Well...almost. Ours is the SL-5. My wife bought it new in the early 80's (long before I knew her) and it is still going strong. The sound is quite good, especially after replacing the cartridge.
Thank you for making these videos. Finding out the history and then seeing/hearing the result of your testing is captivating. As others have mentioned, you could probably do a video about paint drying, and people would watch without even questioning why they are watching.
Cheers from Canada!