Black Friday turntable deal alert! £200 off the Award-winning Technics SL-1500C

We do not see many genuinely good Black Friday file participant offers, however this one is a corker: a whopping nice £200 off a 2023 What Hi-Fi? Award-winning Technics turntable.

There is a catch, nevertheless it’s solely a small one: the Technics SL-1500C is yours for £200 in case you nab the white end – however contemplating how sensible this direct drive turntable is, we think about it’s going to nonetheless look nice in its recent white paint. 

The worth of this glorious file participant has climbed up lately to £1099 (nonetheless presently the worth for the black and silver editions), so this £899 deal worth at Richer Sounds may very well be the most effective Black Friday turntable bargains round. 

Not to be confused with the higher-end SL-1000R turntable launched in early 2018, the extra (comparatively) wallet-friendly SL-1500C is the corporate’s ‘entry-level’ deck. It impressed us a lot since we reviewed it that it has been a What Hi-Fi? Best Buy Award-winner since 2019, making that 5 wins in whole now!

The SL-1500C is a much less elaborate mini-me of the high-end mannequin, nonetheless utilizing a core-less direct drive motor with refined pace administration circuitry, a hefty, well-damped chassis and a model of the corporate’s long-running S-shaped arm.

It comes provided with the well-respected Ortofon 2M Red and is provided with an excellent built-in phono stage. There’s a switchable auto-lift operate that takes the stylus off the file as soon as the top of a aspect has been reached and even the plinth is extra refined than its clean-cut look suggests, utilizing a mixture of aluminium, ABS and glass fibre to attain the combo of rigidity and vibration management required to permit the turntable to do its job correctly. 

There at the moment are three end choices – silver, black and the brand new white color launched in April 2023 – and whereas the worth of all colourways has shot to £1099 this 12 months, it is the brand new white end that is accessible for this £899 deal worth over at Richer Sounds, AV.com and Peter Tyson.

Our recommendation? As we mentioned in our evaluate: “We’re impressed by the SL-1500C’s sonic agility; the way in which it resolves loads of element and manages to ship all that info in a cohesive and musical complete. There are few rivals across the grand mark that do it higher.” We cannot think about costs getting any decrease on the opposite finishes or as soon as Black Friday is over, so if you need a 2023 Award-winning turntable for below a grand, this deal is price contemplating. 

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