Sota or Technics

"Technics for sure"
But of course!
If your going to the night club....🥱

Sota hands down, and I don’t own either.

And it’s blanket statements like this which often discourage me from posting on this site.

Facts: the Technics was designed for home use. DJ’s found favor with it because it fits their needs well too. The criteria that make up a good table for DJ applications are in fact highly similar to those that are required for a good high-end home-use turntable: solid chassis, immunity to external vibration, robust and high quality bearings that can stand repeated use (for both the platter and arm). The 1200 family has these qualities in spades.

Now if you do not personally like the sound, that is fine. You have that right.  Please however do not lord it on others.

Mijostyn, Do you have formal training in electronics or are you self-taught so as to have attained a high level of knowledge about electronics?  (Those are two equally valid ways of getting there.)  Because if you don't, and at least one of our private interactions suggests that you don't, then all the equipment in the world is not going to compensate for "ignorance", and I use that term only to denote a situation where we don't know what we don't know; I do not mean or intend to insult your intelligence.  I certainly count myself as lacking in knowledge at a highly sophisticated level even to begin to understand all the phenomena that define audio Nirvana as I experience it.  Yet I too own oscilloscopes, frequency generators, and miscellaneous meters to make me feel I have a tenuous grip on audio reality. 

Have you considered Pro-ject?

Sota 

Not diving into any of the side controversies here, but I’ll offer that the SOTA Sapphire I bought in 1986 is still going strong.  Here’s my tribute to the ‘table’s durability from 4 or so years ago. Cheers.