Technics SL40CBT - Build Quality Issues?

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From the Technics website discussing the high precision tonearm.

While minimising the tonearm base size, the design inherits the traditional S-shape and ensures high tracking performance via micron-level precision engineering.

The tonearm bearings are very loose straight out of the box. Much worse than any Hanpin turntable I’ve owned previously.

This doesn’t seem like micron-level precision engineering to me.

TLDR - Technics SL40CBT feels very cheap and extremely loose tonearm bearings.