SL1200Mk5 vs Rega P3 ( :-)same cart used for both decks, only the labelling was wrong on screen

Dearest Friends, here we have it: the much asked for shoot-out between the Rega P3 and the Technics SL1200Mk5!!!

The same cart: MP200 had been used for both the P3 AND the SL1200Mk5 in all these 6 songs : Treble (Art Blakey - Noise in the Attic), Bass (Clean Bandit - Dust Clears), Guitars (Doug MacLeod - Black Nights), Piano (Fumio Karashima), Vocals (Rebekah Del Rio - Llorando), Orchestra (Rachmaninoff)..... But i did not label them on screen correctly. You can actually see the purple MP200 was really mounted onto BOTH the decks for each of these songs...only my labelling was wrong (wrong labelling SL+1042) and it should read SL+MP200.
Thank you for pointing this out friends.

*Apologies big time as the labelling is wrong of the carts. But the actual cartridges used are correct. You can see the actual carts used in the video.

It is always P3+1042 vs SL+1042
And P3+MP200 vs SL+MP200.*


This shoot-out is between the Rega P3 (launched in 2016), versus, the SL1200MK5 using the Jelco HS-25 headshells and Herbie's Way Excellent Mat.

The SL1200Mk5 beats the Rega P3 completely in the shootout stakes, using the extremely capable Nagaoka MP-200 and the Goldring 1042 cartridges, and with or without the record clamp.

My wifey, 2 lovely stepsons and I were in Japan just recently, spending 8 days there with my mother-in-law. I had finished all auditioning and had written down all the sound qualities of these two decks on 30th Sept just before we boarded the flight to Narita. I told myself to dig in and film the narrative in Japan, so that I can produce this video episode on time (as i would still need at least 7 days to complete the video editing). Once I was back in Singapore on the 8th, the intensive video editing started. Working nonstop, I manage to work through the hours and finalize the video on FinalCutProX and upload it just in time to release it at 5:30am here (Singapore time).
If I take some time to reply you lovely friends' messages, I hope you will understand why🤗 as I would really desperately need to sleep in for a few hours before I can get back to replying.

Appearing are my lovely wife, stepsons, my sis-in-law and daughter, Tola from Shanghai, and some teenagers around town!! FIlmed on sites at: Lotteria at Ueno, on the trains, at Yodobashi Camera Akihabara, around my in-laws' place (where my family stayed at) in Kasukabe, DiskUnion Shibuya, HMV Shibuya and Recofan Shibuya.

Warmest Regards,
ian.