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Technics SL-1200
First introduced: 1972
In the past 40 years, the music industry has gone from vinyl records to 8-track to cassette tape to CD to MP3. Who knows what cockamamie audio format tomorrow will bring? Still, in all that time, Technics SL-1200 turntables have never left store shelves -- or rather, they continue to fly off them, and usually in pairs. In the early days of party DJ-ing and, gulp, disco, and then even more so with the advent of rap, Technics 1200s quickly became the standard due to their ruggedness and reliability -- thus the regular hip-hop name-check of "Tech twelves" and "the ones and twos." The upgraded Technics 1200MK2 was introduced in 1978, and is the same model you'll find on any given Friday night being rocked by virtually every club DJ worth their scratch the world over.
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Subscribe to commentsWPPRODNov 11th 2008 4:31PM
Can't kill them still have six of them. Got my frist set in "82" still useing them. There going to out last me!
RAC55Nov 11th 2008 8:32PM
My Technics SL 220B bit the dust last year after buying it used back in 1972. I replaced it with one of these. If it lasts as long, I'll probably be around 90 years old when it craps out. By then I won't need it anymore!