You can see the SL-M3 has a furniture-grade wooden plinth, with embedded motor and kind of stuck-on arm control unit. You’ve gotta love a smoked lid, very cool at the time and still cool now. It sounded bad, the speed adjustment was out and she just needed some TLC. The linear tracking mechanism was playing up and the deck would play the first little bit of a record and then get stuck. This particular SL-M3 came to me, like so many decks, not playing records properly.
Tonearm: dynamically-balanced linear trackingĮffective mass: 13g (including cartridge) Platter: 325mm, 2.5kg, aluminium die-cast Specificationsĭrive control: quartz phase-locked control I think this SL-M3 is his pride and joy though. My customer is a linear tracking turntable nut and I’ve also worked on an SL-10 and SL-V5 for him. This is just one of many little turntable avenues that one can explore and find so much to enjoy. In a way, this deck had it all and yet try to find one for sale today and you’ll see the dilemma. The SL-M3 has all the stuff people wanted in a turntable just a couple of years before – direct-drive for low wow & flutter, linear tracking for zero tracking distortion and push-button start, stop and track access, just like CD! A nice, heavy platter, great standard cartridge and space-age styling combine to create a pretty compelling package.
A Technics promotional image of the SL-M3. Whilst the build quality is not in the real heavyweight division, it’s still a 15kg well-made turntable with a lovely furniture finish. Still, the SL-M3 is a really lovely deck, from a legendary brand. That’s mostly due to bad timing, the SL-M3 hit the shops right after CD was released and for those of us that remember the furore, that’s all people cared about for a few years.ĭecks like this were released and people just wanted to talk about lasers and unmeasurable wow & flutter. The Technics SL-M3 linear tracking direct-drive turntable is one of those classic decks that few people have seen or heard of.
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