I admit I still have a soft spot in my heart for the much less advanced SL-1600. After lusting over my high school buddy's SL-1300 for years, I finally scraped up enough money to buy my own—only to be greeted by the news it was no longer available and had been replaced with the 1600. The 1600 proved to be a much better table than the 1300, so I wasn't disappointed once I started using it.
I gave it to my sister when I got a 1300Mk2 a few years later.
After I'd ditched all my vinyl—and turntable—in the late 80s, when I decided to get back into it in the mid 90s, I returned to a 1600 because the 1300Mk2 was initially unobtainium to me. (There was no eBay; I bought it at a used stero equipment store in Berkeley and the 1600 was the best Technics deck they had available.)