Technics SL-1401
Quartz Locked Direct Drive Semi Automatic Turntable (1978)

Description
The Technics SL-1401 is our latest direct drive turntable with remarkable features you've come to expect from Technics.
They add up to specifications we like to boast about - speed drift +-0.002%, wow and flutter 0.025% WRMS and rumble -73db.
How do we do it? By choosing only the best components and by developing a total system that performs like an engineers dream.
Specifications
Type: semi-automatic turntable
Drive method: direct drive
Motor: ultra low speed brushless DC motor
Control type: quartz phase locked
Platter: 330mm, 2.2kg, aluminium diecast
Speeds: 33 and 45rpm
Wow and flutter: 0.025% WRMS
Rumble: -73dB
Tonearm: gimbal suspension, universal, s-shaped, tubular
Effective length: 230mm
Overhang: 15mm
Offset angle: 21.5 degrees
Dimensions: 125 x 453 x 369mm
Weight: 9.3kg
Downloads
instruction/owners manual (en)
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User Reviews
I own it since 1977 and still works gloriously !!!
10/10 by epessina
Comments
Service Manual
Hello friends of black discs,
is there anybody out there, who can supply a service manual for this machine?
Someone did it - thank U!