Black Friday week is being fairly type to hi-fi thus far, largely because of lots of the specialist hi-fi retailers’ dedication to the annual sale. One of the best Black Friday hi-fi offers thus far embrace £50 off our favorite funds audio system, £170 off former favourites from Bowers & Wilkins, and £200 off varied Cambridge Audio parts. And you’ll add a couple of Technics offers to that heavenly haul too. That is proper, a handful of value cuts on Technics gear have caught our eye whereas perusing the gross sales.
The primary is £200 off the multi-Award-winning Technics SL-1500C turntable with free Sennheiser headphones thrown in. Its present What Hello-Fi? Award speaks for itself: this can be a class-leading report participant for its value, made all of the extra compelling because of this low cost and freebie.
After which you’ve gotten the phono stage-less SL-100C turntable right down to £799 (from £950) and the SA-C100 streaming system right down to £699 (from £850). Each are extra inexpensive siblings of merchandise that aren’t solely tried-and-tested five-star performers but additionally present What Hello-Fi? Award winners. After all, that is not to say that the SA-C100 system and SL-1000C report participant are essentially class leaders at their respective value factors too, nevertheless it’s truthful to say that their Premium Class household’s success suggests they may very well be very respectable certainly.
Final however not least for those who’re available in the market for earbuds, the unique, noise-cancelling EAH-AZ60 are solely £119 because of a 40 per cent low cost, whereas their barely improved, spectacular successors are simply £30 extra.
Technics scooped two 2022 and 2023 What Hello-Fi? Awards for its £899 SA-C600 streaming amplifier and £1099 SL-1500C turntable. The latter even took house essentially the most esteemed ‘Product of the Yr’ gong within the hi-fi system class. So you may say the SA-C100 and SL-100C above, from Technics’ similar Premium Class product sequence, come from a stable heritage.
The SA-C100 is a just-add-speakers system about as well-spec’d as they arrive, providing myriad streaming assist, bodily connections for hooking up a turntable, TV or different audio element, and – uncommon for such techniques – an built-in CD drive. We won’t vouch for its sound efficiency, which is able to seemingly be inferior to the SA-C600’s because of a discrepancy within the models’ inner parts – this can be a extra inexpensive system, in any case. But when it is tuned equally you may anticipate an expressive, punchy and in the end entertaining sound.
As for the SL-100C deck, it’s a follow-up to the SL-1500C and due to this fact shares a lot of its DNA. It has the identical iron-coreless direct-drive motor designed to keep away from points equivalent to cogging and pace management, plus a model of the corporate’s long-running S-shaped aluminium tonearm. Technic’s in-house developments in platter design are carried over with a two-layer construction combining deadened rubber and aluminium, too, although the primary variations lie in its lack of a phono stage and use of an Audio-Technica versus an Ortofon cartridge.
The earbuds are each recommendable at their Black Friday low cost too, although it is the most recent (MK2) model we might go for for those who can afford them. The EAH-AZ60M2 will not be as delicate or thrilling to take heed to because the class-leading £219 Sony WF-1000XM5, however they’re nonetheless upbeat, detailed and entertaining to take heed to and impress with a number of options, together with a 25-hour battery life and the power to modify effortlessly between as much as three sources by way of Bluetooth with out having to manually set the connection each time.
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