Technics SU-C700 Amplifier
Regrettably, it is way from your triumphal return we'd hoped for.
But let us start off with what is not bad, and there is no doubting there's been some serious thought in regards to the look of the SU-C700. Its size is not common, sitting somewhere between half-full and stand-rack width at 34cm across, and its own firm casework, produced from aluminium, is accessible only in silver.
Everything seems immaculate, and there is attention to detail here that is difficult to fault.
Technics has chosen for Class D amplification maybe uncommon for an amp at this cost, but it does suit the more streamlined layout of the unit.
There continues to be an effort to correct this using a characteristic called LAPC, or Load Adaptive Phase Calibration. After you have activated this, the SU-C700 adjusts itself accordingly, and sends out a test signal to find out the electric features of the loudspeakers it is attached to.
We definitely advocate taking out the time in your setup process to do this - you'll hear a difference with everything seeming a little tighter when LAPC is on.
The SU-C700 differs from a lot of its own rivals as of this cost, because it includes a built in DAC and a lot more digital input signals than analogue.
Sadly, as it pertains to operation the news is so bad. There is an actual dearth of energy in the Technics' operation, with inferior rhythmic drive that frequently leaves it seeming disorganised and confused. Positive tracks lack impetus and force and records that are softer seem boring and interesting.
Sadly, there is no music genre which goes unaffected. Feed Men's Mountain Sound and it Of Beasts as well as energy and the bounce of the intro that is exciting is totally disoriented, instead seeming dynamically uninspiring and flat.
Instruments sound one dimensional, their notes lacking texture and depth, and there is hardly any in the manner of feeling or expression. The GBP400 D3020 of nAD seems organised and completely more facile.
A play of the Underground Kings of Drake shows up the SU-C700's weakness with time. The tune that is looped sounds disjointed and jumbled in the bass track it's woven about, as well as the sung appears unconnected to the instrumental.
With anticipation running high for the Technics resurrection, that is not the news we wished to deliver. Sadly, we've to, and only at that cost the SU-C700 isn't an amp to take into account.
