Brand new Technics SL-1210GR platter wobble ... disappointed!

OP: I looked at the videos. Well that is disappointing. To be expected from a Chinese piece of junk. Except, that this should be Japanese product of the highest caliber possible. And also, now, Chinese make high quality products (if they want). So what makes this really sad is that the Technics is a double disappointment. It's not even about the warped platter for me. 

But wait a second, I knew this all along. Ever since I got a 1200G. The one that not has the ultra bright BLUE led lights and now looks like a honda civic street racer with led lights under the body. Pathetic. And this is a classy refinement of the time proven precision machine? 

@audioguy85,

One of the reasons high school kids in the late 70’s thru the 80’s used Technics turntables is because they were used and didn’t cost a lot of money and you could pick one up at any second store or pawn shop. We’re talking about poor kids here, right around the time and birth of rap music. And they were built like tanks.

You know where they got the idea from? Disc Jockeys! Radio station ’DJ’s knew of the reliability and quality of the Technics tables because so many ’audiophiles’ owned them in their home rigs. Yes radio DJ’s not to be confused with the kids from the block who would throw dance hall parties.

So this may come as a surprise to you the Technics tables were known as audiophile tables, even the Technics SL-1200MK2.

https://vintagetechnics.audio/turntables.php

http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SL-01.html
http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SL-10.html
http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SL-1000MK2.html
http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SL-1100.html
http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SL-1200MK2.html
http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SL-1350.html
http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SL-15.html
http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SL-1500MK2.html
http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SL-1650.html
http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SL-1900.html
http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SL-2000.html
http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SL-7.html
http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SL-M1.html
http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SL-V5.html
http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SP-10MK2.html
http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SP-10MK3.html

I owned the Pro-Ject RPM 5.1 turntable. It was a beautiful table.

https://www.henleyaudio.co.uk/products/RPM5-1

But the arm would bounce like a rubber ball at the slightest of foot movements. The ’rubber band’ belt would stretch from heat and friction on the pulley and God forbid if you didn’t have a Pro-Ject speed box...I ended up selling it.

Direct drive turntables have the best wow and flutter specs in the industry. Unlike some people have just mentioned that is certainly not their problem. Having no suspension and an oscillating magnetic device right below a very sensitive magnetic vibration measuring device are certainly problems that might result in inferior performance not wow and flutter or "cogging" as was previously mentioned.  

I hope technics will take note of the issues reported here.