Looks like Vinyl is back on the menu!

LOTS OF INFO HERE

Release date is August 2014 at £599.



Thoughts?

I believe Pioneer bought the rights from technics/Panasonic to put their name on these. This looks to be the final product. It was teased a few months ago I believe at the BPM show in Europe.

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well they look nice of course. pioneer stuff usually does. even if they just slapped their name on a technics turntable and are remarketing it, at least technics is going to live on. i'm not sure how popular these are going to be though.

it looks exactly like a technics. Why buy this when you can buy a 1200.

Is this really a re-badge? Source?

meh.

Not to be negative or anything but I see a lot of posers going for this, if anything. Pioneer fanboys - they exist.

My techs are in perfect working order and I have no need for these, as do many others.

In fact the one thing that interests me about these, if anything, are the supposed shock absorption/dampening features that they added.

Oh and I think the price point is a bit too high. Maybe if Pioneer offered some kind of Technics buyback program I would consider them.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.

M3D's all day err day.

W/e happen to the usb input.

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Originally posted by ghostshrooms Why did Panasonic stop selling Technics awhile back? People are still buying new records and was it Jack White who said record selling is at an all time high last year or this year or something

My guess is it's still niche enough that they weren't making enough of a business case to keep em going, despite the recent uptick in vinyl. Looks like they're living on here though.

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I'll take my SL-1200MK2's any day of the week.

More of a novelty now. Still nothing like the feeling of spinning on tecks.

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Originally posted by ghostshrooms Why did Panasonic stop selling Technics awhile back? People are still buying new records and was it Jack White who said record selling is at an all time high last year or this year or something

Japanese electronics companies are kinda in the shitter at the moment due to competition from Korea (and other low-budget places). Could be that the slow-down of sales in other divisions meant Panasonic had to cut costs.

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