Osaka, Japan - Panasonic Corporation today announced that it will exhibit a direct drive1 analog turntable prototype equipped with a newly developed direct drive motor at the IFA 20152 trade fair to be held in Berlin from September 4 to 9, 2015. Panasonic is accelerating further development of this technology with a view to market launch in 2016 under the Technics hi-fi audio brand.
I thought the same. Seems to be a precision TT over a DJ product, it’s obviously not going to be sold as the image suggests, it’ll need a tonearm, maybe it’s a similar setup to the SL120D, where it was sold without a tonearm, but contained the boreholes and fitting for an SME tonearm and stylus, and this was put on afterwards.
