Direct Drive Turntable System SL-120

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  • Year
  • 1975–1977 ?
  • Category
  • Sound/Video Recorder and/or Player
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 151809

 Technical Specifications

  • Number of Transistors
  • Semiconductors present.
  • Semiconductors
  • Wave bands
  • - without
  • Details
  • Record Player (not changer); Hi-Fi equipment
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC) / 110-240 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • - For headphones or amp.
  • Material
  • Various materials
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: Direct Drive Turntable System SL-120 - Technics brand
  • Shape
  • Tablemodel, with any shape - general.
  • Dimensions (WHD)
  • 453 x 180 x 366 mm / 17.8 x 7.1 x 14.4 inch
  • Notes

  • A Direct Drive Turntable, no tonearm but with an armboard fitted for an SME 3009 series II tonearm. High torque motor, low wow and flutter, strobe, pitch control. Heavy aluminium plinth with a perspex dust cover.

    Specification  
    Type Direct drive player system
    Turntable platter Aluminium die-cast; 33 cm (13") diameter
    310 kg-cm2 (105.9 lb-in2) inertial moment.
    1.75 kg (3.86 lb) weight
    Turntable speeds 33⅓ and 45 r.p.m.
    Motor 20 poles (rotor), 15 poles (stator)
    ultra low-speed brushless DC motor
    Speed change method Electronic change
    Variable pitch control Individual adjustment by variable resistor.
    10% adjustment range
    Wow and flutter 0.03% WRMS
    Rumble -50 dB (DIN A) -70 dB (DIN B)
    Build-up time ½ rotation at 33⅓ r.p.m.

    The Technics SL-1200 Direct Drive Turntable System is the same but with a Technics EPA-120 tonearm fitted.

    Manueller Plattenspieler mit Direktantrieb, 33 und 45 UpM, Drehzahlfeinregulierung und beleuchtete Stroboskopanzeige. 330mm Plattenteller Alu-Spritzguss.
    Modell SL-120 wird ohne Tonarm ausgeliefert.

  • Net weight (2.2 lb = 1 kg)
  • 10 kg / 22 lb 0.4 oz (22.026 lb)
  • Price in first year of sale
  • 124.50 £
  • Source of data
  • -- Original prospect or advert
  • Mentioned in
  • -- Original prospect or advert (SL-120 brochure dated January 1975)
  • Literature/Schematics (1)
  • - - Manufacturers Literature (Operating Instructions SL-1200 SL-120)
  • Author
  • Model page created by Franz Scharner. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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