Technics SL 1200 MK2 Vinyl Turntable
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Technics SL1200 MK2 needs no introduction, industry-standard, slipmats and Stanton Groovemaster II, regularly serviced for top performance. Industry standards: Technics SL-1200 Dimensions MK1: 45.3 cm (w) x 36.6 cm (d) x 18 cm (h) Dimensions MK2: 45.3 cm (w) x 36 cm (d) x 16.2 cm (h) Weight: 11 kg (net, unboxed without lid) Voltage: 220 V / 110 V (selectable) Pitch Control: +/- 8% Starting Time (MK2): 0.7s Rotation Speeds: 33-1/3 & 45 rpm SL-1200 features include: Magnetic (no wear), direct drive (low slip) mechanism. High torque (1.5 kgf·cm or 0.15 N·m), which means the platter spins at the desired speed almost immediately (0.7 seconds to reach 33 ¹⁄₃ RPM from standstill), and rapidly reacquires the desired speed, without "overshooting", if the platter is dragged or nudged—this aids beatmatching. Low wow and flutter (0.01%), implying that the platter stays within 1/100 of 1% of the desired speed. Heavy base (2.5 kg), and increased isolation of platter from base, reduced the likelihood of feedback or stylus jumping. Variable pitch control, allowing the rotational speed to be adjusted from -8% to +8% (for the purpose of beatmatching). High reliability: many examples of SL-1200s lasting well over 15 years of heavy use and withstanding physical shock without functional impairment. S-shaped tonearm: No longer popular on high end hi-fi turntables. "DJs all over the world know the 1210," says Christian Hoffmann, the head sound tech at Tresor in Berlin. "Most of them know how to handle them. They know how they react. They don't want to try new turntables they don't know, even if there is no big difference between them." Their continual ubiquity is, in a sense, the result of their continual ubiquity. DJs make much of the 1200's tough-to-replicate tactility, but anyone who's owned a pair and really put them to work can attest to their near-indestructibility. Stories abound of the early days of hip-hop in the Bronx, where DJs would throw their decks in car trunks and plunk them down in whatever courtyard or gymnasium was home to the party that day. They can be covered in gashes, dents and cigarette burns and play just as well as one right out of the box. "I've heard of them getting run over by cars and still holding up," says Justin Carter of Brooklyn's Mister Saturday Night party, whose mobile Soundsystem still uses half of his first pair, procured as an undergraduate at NYU from a scratch DJ in the South Bronx. "We have only ever had to get rid of one turntable. I can't remember what the specific problem with it was, but we were able to use it for parts, so it was still useful." The machines aren't flawless, but their less durable bits—an easily broken grounding wire and RCA cables, pitch adjustment sliders in need of recalibration, connections in the tonearm that grow famously testy as they oxidize—are known quantities to sound technicians and come with their own unconventional fixes. (As a college radio DJ many years back, I was shown a workaround for the latter problem during a mandatory equipment training session: stick the eraser-end of a pencil inside the tonearm, apply pressure and give the pencil a few turns. The more common solution—licking the connections on the back of the headshell—would only worsen the problem over time and wouldn't be tolerated.) Some regular tonearm and tracking force calibration, and the occasional new set of cartridges, is basically all the TLC most 1200s will ever require. As of 2010, citing poor sales and dwindling parts suppliers, Panasonic discontinued the Technics 1200, meaning our fetishization of the deck will likely only increase. One wonders if their epic lifespans are eventually what did them in—if very little about a product ever changes, and if the pair you bought ten years ago (off a DJ who had been using the pair for ten years before that) still works like new, why would you ever buy a new set? For the time being, nearly new decks are still common on Craiglist and eBay. (I
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