GaN based SU-R1000 Technics Integrated Class-D, review by TAS




After their unobtainable and unaffordable ground breaking 1.5mhz switching speed, Technics SE-R1 GaN Class-D power amp, this new offspring integrated has finally gotten an in depth review.

I had high hopes for Technics "fully optioned" SU-R1000 integrated, "looks" like my hopes could be founded, here is the The Absolute Sound’s 7 page!!! review on it, enjoy.
https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/technics-su-r1000-integrated-amplifier?mc_cid=2c9d21110f&a...

Cheers George
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Wow!!! what is it with you guys, are you so entangled with what your spruiking and shilling for, that you can’t stand to see anything else get some cred, even if it’s on another thread to what your spruiking/shilling on??

Get some meds/or life "quick"
Over decades of reading reviews where a component was simply inserted into a ’reviewers’ system without regard to what makes the component special and likely incompatible with the reviewers kit. A case of the blind leading the blind. Case in point; MANY reviews of true balanced kit were reviewed in NON true balanced systems with the reviewer closing with I heard very little difference... is pathetic, as it leaves the buyer at a loss of what the kit would sound like in a true balanced system.

AC is long known to wax enthusiastic over all the equipment he reviews, but in this case, his comments about how the SU-R1000 sounds, very much mimics my own experience with a stock LSA Voyager GaN amp, a 350/600 ground up build GaN amp at a most reasonable $3000
Unfortunately, GaN amps sold direct only (like LSA) will not be reviewed in most, if not all print magazines. It will be up to the many forums to tell their personal experiences
georgehifi  Plus 1 

I own the baby technics  SUG 700 integrated amp I picked up on here at a steep discount thank you very much to the seller. My only gripe I wish it had more power but really not needed in my system.
 The SUG700 is beautiful to look at and listen to at a fraction of the cost of its big brother, but with a few of the same features. I'm don't spin records so I could give a rats patoot about the phono stage but I do listen to headphones and my Focal's sounds great thru this amp.
What I've said before on here Technic's customer service sucks, actually it's nonexistent as far as I am concerned period amen. You see you can't speak to a person, hell you can't contact a person at Technics give it a try. Why do I say this the email address and phone numbers in their manual do not work. I called Panasonic the same deal no people answer just recording telling you to leave a message which is ignored.  So  I randomly calling variations of phone numbers listed and  I got some guy at his desk and he gave me an email address at Technics  I wrote to it and never got a response. Hell I was only looking for information about the SUG 700, I sure hope this unit never breaks! 
I might also add their marketing sucks as well as evident in the limited reviews available on the SUG 700.