Belt Drive vs Direct Drive! Yamaha GT-5000 turntable REVIEW. Compared to Technics SL-1200GAE

In this "quick and dirty" review, Independent AV Specialist Morten Stjernholm reviews the amazing looking €8.300 Yamaha GT-5000 turntable and compares the sound to the top of the line €4.000 Technics SL-1200GAE using the same cartridge and preamp.

The review is a part of a larger review of the Yamaha 5000 series HIFI that you can see here:    • Yamaha 5000 series HIFI - FULL review - Gr...  

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DOWNLOAD THE SOUND COMPARISON AND READ ME FILES HERE (488mb, Zip archive)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jf2t...

The review samples was kindly supplied by Yamaha Scandinavia.

Read more about the 5000 series products here:
https://dk.yamaha.com/da/products/con...

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Video Segments:

0:00 Welcome
0:22 Behold the magnificence
1:00 Materials and weight
1:40 Family history except
2:00 The finish and problem
2:39 Belt drive vs direct drive + straight tonearm
3:35 Balanced outputs
4:08 The Technics Direct drive torque
5:00 Differences between the tables
6:20 Sound Comparison
7:00 Sound Comparison signal path
8:15 Record and track selection
9:00 GT-5000 startup time (low torque, heavy platter)
10:22 GT-5000 playing
11:03 SL-1200GAE playing
11:40 Digital/TIDAL playing
12:28 GT-5000 pros and cons

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Stjernholm Reviews Sonic Snacks PLAYLIST:

Stjernholm Reviews Sonic Snacks Playlists on Tidal, Qobuz, Spotify, Youtube Music (tracks I often use for critical judgement, updated continuously - suggestions are very welcome!)

https://sdz.sh/knEB2s

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Video production shot and production assisted by Tim Harris, Headway Production
https://headwayproductions.dk/

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Channel beats are tapped in and produced by Marcus Stjernholm, aka. Marc Nash
Spotify link to artist:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4eP58...
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