Technics reviews

Technics RS-AZ7 Cassette deck review
Cassette deck Technics RS-AZ7

It would seem that in the analog magnetic recording since the mid 80's there was no wind, long ago invented. So rare case return technological developments record primarily digital back to analog. Thus, the thin-film magnetic head resistive (IWG), produced by Panasonic, what distinguishes them from the...
Technics RS-B905 Cassette Deck review
Cassette Deck Technics RS-B905

Technics's RS-B905 contains most of the features that go into a thoroughly modern cassette deck, plus one feature that seems almost a relic of the past-albeit a useful relic. The deck is a two-motor, three-head model (with recording and playback heads in a single housing) and has a dual-capstan transport...
Technics RS-DC10 DCC deck review
DCC deck Technics RS-DC10

The DCC format is thus already supported by European, American, and Japanese manufacturers. Whereas the Optimus recorder has a distinctive character of its own, however, the RS-DC 10's front panel clearly shows its affinity to the Philips DCC900. Except for a button or two, they appear outwardly identical....
Technics RS-DC8 DCC deck review
DCC deck Technics RS-DC8

The RS-DC8 is Technics' second-generation home DCC deck, providing all the features of earlier decks, a few new ones, and, most significantly, an improved transport. In the analog world, an improved transport can mean better sound, but in the digital world it mainly translates to speedier tape shuttling....
Technics RS-TR373 Cassette deck review
Cassette deck Technics RS-TR373

The device looks attractive and surprisingly symmetrical, slightly breaks the symmetry, only the button POWER. The overall design 373rd well designed, smooth relief panel transitions marked functional areas. Besides symmetry apparatus attractive by the fact that he, by the way, only in our test, there...
Technics RS-TR575 Cassette deck review
Cassette deck Technics RS-TR575

Very nice unit, dark brown, with nicely rounded corners. The functionality is quite satisfactory. Autorevers have Technics RS-TR575 installed on both decks. Mechanic both decks enables parallel copy where both mechanics with shared noise reduction Dolby. Of course, the device is equipped with regimes...
Technics SA-GX650 AV-receiver review
AV-receiver Technics SA-GX650

Heading Technics' new line of audio/video receivers, the SA-GX650 is a powerful and versatile component that should be equally at home in surround-sound, home theater, or conventional stereo applications. The SA-GX650 has three 100-watt amplifiers, for the front left, center, and right speakers, and...
Technics SA-GX790 AV-receiver review
AV-receiver Technics SA-GX790

As you might expect from a model standing second-from-the-top of the Technics receiver lineup, the SA-GX790 is blessed with many impressive features and ratings. Perhaps the most impressive is the specification for amplifier power, something you can never have too much of: 120 watts per channel in two-channel...
Technics SA-TX1000 AV-receiver review
AV-receiver Technics SA-TX1000

Designing a Home THX receiver can't be easy. Not only do the engineers have to add to a normal receiver all the THX processing used to modify the outputs of a Dolby Pro Logic decoder, but they must also comply with demanding THX specifications for the power-amplifier sections. So it's perhaps no wonder...
Technics SB-F1 Bookshelf speakers review
Bookshelf speakers Technics SB-F1

This tiny metal-encased speaker from Japan is the smallest in a Technics range of 2-way systems with the tweeter se t back behind a chamfered opening to produce both a 'linear phase' effect (i.e. with the effective driver centres vertically aligned) and an approximation to horn loading. Though the main...
Technics SB-M300 Bookshelf speakers review
Bookshelf speakers Technics SB-M300

A three-way speaker system Technics SB-M300 looks very massively with a decorative panel and also without it. I must say that it weights "massively" too - 11 kg at the sizes of 222x367x335 mm. An interesting principle of double dynamic stress is used in the system: two rectangular (18cm) massive reflector...
Technics SB-M500 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers Technics SB-M500

Loudspeakers for Hi-Fi audio - is the subject of a special, relentless attention over the years as developers and consumers of audio equipment. Let me explain this thesis: despite the apparent simplicity compared to other radio-electronic components, loudspeakers - as electromechanical system - the...
Technics SH-CH570 Mini stereo system review
Mini stereo system Technics SH-CH570

Technics 570 - virtually pure component system structurally designed in the form of four sets of hardware blocks interconnected by cables. The overall design is maintained in strict refined style. Modern-looking front panel of the amplifier, CD-player, double cassette deck and tuner. Kit includes a pair...
Technics SH-GE70 Equalizer review
Equalizer Technics SH-GE70

Level adjustment in each of seven bands of this equalizer is electronic and joint for both channels (that significantly decreases the flexibility of the device). The range is 12 dB with the step of 2 dB, what was proved at the measuring with sufficient accuracy. Three mechanical switches provide all...
Technics SH-GE90 Equalizer review
Equalizer Technics SH-GE90

A very complex device which includes an equalizer as just one of the parts of the total: there are also an echo mode reverberator, a mixer for mixing the signals from two microphones in karaoke mode and a Digital Sound Processor (DSP), which provides a simulation of acoustic properties of six different...
Technics SL-1300 Turntable review
Turntable Technics SL-1300

In fact, Matsushita Electric, who use the brand name Technics for their top line products, have been making direct-drive turntables since their original SP-10 in 1971 and this SL-1300 seems to have carried the principle to even higher standards, while adding a number of user features which make the...
Technics SL-1500 Turntable review
Turntable Technics SL-1500

At a first glance, this Technics SL-1500 does not look very different from the SL-1300 but in fact it is somewhat simpler, being a manual player, whereas the SL-1300 is automatic. At the front right-hand corner is a combined on/off speed selector knob, sensibly placed well clear of the pickup headshell...
Technics SL-BD20 Turntable review
Turntable Technics SL-BD20

Technics SL-BD20 is a semi-automatic vinyl player. Its body is cast of plastic. The mechanism consists of rigidly mounted central spindle and monolithic disc with a belt-drive, on which there is a rubber layer. The mechanism is not too stable to deformations, directed along a vertical axis. Engine and...
Technics SL-MC50 CD-changer review
CD-changer Technics SL-MC50

The new SL-MC50 from Technics features yet another variation on the numerous design and styling themes available in today's CD changers. Even though it holds a total of sixty-one discs, sixty in changer slots and one in a single disc playing slot, it takes up only about the same amount of space as a...
Technics SL-P1200 CD-player review
CD-player Technics SL-P1200

Nineteen eighty seven was a transitional year for the world's first mass digital music carrier. In Europe, we were all running variants of first generation machines, the Marantz CD54 and Meridian MCD being big sellers in the audiophile community. Philips' TDA1541 sixteen bit, four times oversampling...
Technics SL-P2000 CD-player review
CD-player Technics SL-P2000

The solidity of the device, emphasized by the restrained design of the front panel, captivates at first sight. And the model number according to the firm classification obliges a lot. It is clear that the price category to which the SL-P2000 belongs, the consumer has very serious requirements in sound...
Technics SL-PD1010 CD-changer review
CD-changer Technics SL-PD1010

The Technics SL-PD1010 is a five-disc carousel changer of fairly nondescript appearance (though I guess undistinguished styling beats bad styling). When the carousel drawer is opened, two disc wells are revealed. A disc-skip button rotates the platter counterclockwise two notches at a time to expose...
Technics SL-PG440 CD-player review
CD-player Technics SL-PG440

The overall impression of the traditionally high-quality design of this company's turntables is somewhat reduced by looking at the front panel made of plastic. The downside is noisy mechanics both during playback and loading and unloading the disc. At a low volume, the noise of mechanical components...
Technics SL-PG460A CD-player review
CD-player Technics SL-PG460A

The sound of the player Technics SL-PG460A has a metallic color, spaciousness and localization low level. Sound inexpressive, moderately underlined. Equipment cd-player Technics SL-PG460A is traditionally pas very high level. I liked the well-designed remote control. An additional mode is A - B Repeat,...
Technics SL-PG480A CD-player review
CD-player Technics SL-PG480A

Pressing Eject button you immediately forget that the device Technics SL-PG480A costs $160. We can see the same soft charging device as in more expensive models. Electronic volume control is better designed for coordination of levels with the pre-amp's input and in terms of other sources, because only...
Technics SL-PG580A CD-player review
CD-player Technics SL-PG580A

The first thing that attracted our attention was very rational, we can say, beautiful construction (inside the device), minimum of board-to-board connections. The second, already external thing is, maybe said, a classical layout of the faceplate close to cassette decks. Separation into two half-planes...
Technics SL-PS770A CD-player review
CD-player Technics SL-PS770A

The SL-PS770A is currently the most expensive model. The device is distinguished by a very high-quality execution of the mechanical units, so that it works without any interfering or just unpleasant noises. The movement of the loading tray is accompanied by a slight buzzing sound, which is similar to...
Technics SL-PS770D CD-player review
CD-player Technics SL-PS770D

Player is a direct descendant of the model SL-PS770A, which was awarded the prize EISA four years ago. In this model, in addition to the traditionally used instead of analog converter MASH digital filters supplied what, in fact, indicated by the change at the end of the letter designations firm. Player...
TECHNICS SL-PS840 CD-player review
CD-player TECHNICS SL-PS840

Although Matsushita, the company that makes the Technics machines, supplies the market with many products designed for their widespread use in the home, nevertheless, in the higher price categories it has consistently maintained a very high standard of quality. The TECHNICS SL-PS840 CD player is certainly...
Technics ST-GT650 Tuner review
Tuner Technics ST-GT650

Known firm presented a very nice tuner with a large display and a round pen settings. Government quite a lot, but their purpose is obvious, therefore control the tuner seemed simple and easy. There is a remote control, the total for the tuner and amplifier. ST-GT650 operates in the long, medium wave...
Technics SU-A700 mk3 Amplifier review
Amplifier Technics SU-A700 mk3

In the modification of the 700th model Technics uses the components that affect the sound quality. The anti-vibration chassis, the electrolytic capacitors of the Master series and the power transformer with the R-core, which has minimal parasitic magnetic radiation, are borrowed from the previous version....
Technics SU-A800D Amplifier review
Amplifier Technics SU-A800D

This two-unit good-looker intruded into that price category, where integral amplifiers were still dominated. SU-800D is a logical continuation of the series of two-unit amplifiers, supplied to the market by the company "Technics". This device takes the lowest price category in the series of two-unit...
Technics SU-A808 Amplifier review
Amplifier Technics SU-A808

The main technical highlight of the amplifier - a two-step volume control (Scheme VGCA), which provides a significant expansion of dynamic range that is required primarily for DVD-Audio. For traditional regulators noise from the speakers to open the entrance of the corrector is heard when turning up...
Technics SU-V500 Amplifier review
Amplifier Technics SU-V500

Loudness is upset in this amplifier, and that is not minus, but consequence of individual point of company's view to necessity of this regulation. Firmed development of "New Class A" output cascade is applied in section of SU-V500 power amplifier. It is using in the amplifiers of "Technics" about 15...
Technics SU-V620 Amplifier review
Amplifier Technics SU-V620

Equipment by Technics has a merited authority and popularity over lovers of Japanese audio techniques. And really, the design and the exactitude of external view of elder model 620 in SU-V series of Hi-Fi amplifiers by Technics gave the most pleasant performance on us. As everybody knows output cascades...
Technics SU-V660 Amplifier review
Amplifier Technics SU-V660

Top of Technics' fully-fledged integrated amplifier range the SU-V660 is a solidly built 100W design decked out in the company's traditional gold and bronze livery. The fascia is dominated by a huge rotary 4-gang volume control with two independent logarithmic scales. These correspond to 'normal' or...
Technics SU-V85A Amplifier review
Amplifier Technics SU-V85A

This model SU-V85A fully deserves the battleship connotation and, sadly to my mind, the front panel is made unnecessarily busy with a mess of boast words. However the controls are well laid out and clearly if repetitively marked. For example, is it necessary to state that the knobs marked Bass and Treble...
Technics SU-V9 Amplifier review
Amplifier Technics SU-V9

There are some products whose use gives us pleasure beyond what we might rationally expect from their quality, fine though it may be. When we encounter such a model, we usually find it as hard to contain our irrational enthusiasm as to explain its source. The Technics SU-V9 is a case in point: There's...
Technics SU-VX500 Amplifier review
Amplifier Technics SU-VX500

The functionality is the same as that of the Kenwood KA-1030 amplifier. There are Aux inputs, connection of moving magnet (MM) and moving coil (MC) pickups. When dubbing from one tape recorder to another, you can listen to any of the signals. There is a direct input to the power amplifier. Having...