Thinking about a 1200G

Since PP may seem to recover from technics wonder if you will get a call one day tomorrow return?

Would you like me to email technics back from my earlier email highlighting A Friends unresolved plight?

Glad too that I got one of the earliest SL1200Gs & it remains near-perfect. In use the platter looks stationary apart from rotation of the smaller strobe dots (33rpm) so maybe mine was manufactured before the guys in Japan had pressure to meet demand? 

A new member but found this thread to share my experience.

I was looking for the GR but I got my S/H 1200G from Japan with a deal I simply could not refuse to take a risk on since the G is a class above the GR (and almost twice the weight too). I used to DJ too and the 1200 decks were always the best performers, from the practical side the swiftest use and sound wise the best sounding and damping in loud environment (Pioneers, Audio Technicas, Vestax went into low-end resonance more often). 

Once I received my 1200G it was fairly beat up, probably ex-DJ used, fair amount of scratches (probably from the beer cans sitting on the deck during the loud music parties - all familiar to me as well from the good ol' days), but compared to the classic 1200 mkX series this G thing is on another lever in every respect - it's really built like a tank! Aaand most of all, in a rare combination in it's heart it's really an hi-fi turntable, the classic 1200 series was close, but needed some modifications to "hit the spot", G does not need much, it's already there from the factory. (Proof below)

Japanese are crazy good on packing things, but this time they shipped it with the platter attached, a colossal mistake! Thankfully it was taped to the chassis on multiple places.

I measured - no wobble, even with a micrometer. The magnesium arm is a spot on tracker with it's low friction bearings (measured it with a test record and oscilloscope).

Started with Ortofon OM10, then Van den Hul DDT-II Special that I've owned for 15 years on different turntables and finally decided the 1200G is worth more and went literally overboard, got a Van den Hul Colibri XGW proper high-end cartridge. With this I've finally found my dream combo sound-wise. I get to use DJ-like lightning-fast operating turntable (I play 7"/10" singles, 12" LPs and even 78rpm shellacks [just mount on a different headshell with Audio Technica Mono-SP MC cart, takes me around a half a minute with written down calibrated adjustments for weight and VTA]) and it sounds just fabulous with all the damping and magnesium arm elegance that puts all of my previous turntables (mostly Thorens) into shame, especially in loud listening where they audibly suffer, the G just sings! IMHO there's nothing on the market that does this. High-end/hi-fi players are mostly slow and cumbersome to use in practice, so if you listen a lot of music in various vinyl formats and need that high-end turntable quality at the same time - I think the 1200G is next to impossible to beat (well okay, probably only SP-10R or SL-1000R surpass it if you have exorbitant amounts of dosh to spend, with the rule of diminishing returns in full action).

Translation: a huge 1200G fan here.

Just to balance out some horror stories posted above. Hence don't count out the 1200G and I highly recommend to try this one-of-a-kind hand made table.