Wow. Calm down man!

I own 1200 MK5's, they are very nice. I won't be getting rid of them anytime soon.

A heavy TT base means that the decks absorb sound better, reducing the possibility of feedback on club systems. For turntablists, a heavy deck is a good thing. For carrying it, not so much.

Why not make the cords use RCA jacks like every other audio product on earth? Replacing them requires soldering. That's retarded. You can't justify Technics decision on that one. Is it necessary, I guess not. Why not solder your earbuds into your iPod and see how you like that?

And key lock doesn't help people who don't mix in key... it helps people who DO mix in key. If you aren't mixing harmonically, than keylock won't help you.

Pre-amps can be useful. What if you have a mixer without enough pre-amps (3 decks)? What if you decide to use your deck to record vinyl into your PC (without going through a mixer)? What if you don't like the way the pre-amps sound in your mixer? It's a convenience thing.

There's no reason Technics couldn't have added some of these things considering how long they have been around. Truth is, they made so many of them that the MK2's are still sitting around in warehouses and coming out with a new model with substantially better features would make them sit there even longer.

There's has been next to NO R&D from that company. Aside from the 1200's, they've never made any other really successful DJ gear. At least Stanton innovated. That's my point.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Shit, is it not? well thanks for clearing that up. People are always so helpful on this forum. Give yourself a biscuit. Er.....Schizophrenia.... No, it just means they made the base of them out of a cast piece of aluminium. The only advantage of this is might not wobble if bashed, but this is not a problem on correctly set up 1200's so why bother? I have owned 4 sets of 1200/1210's (various models) over the last 10 years and have never managed to damage the ground cord. What are you doing with them? picking the deck up by the ground cord? Also, there is no point having a "quality" ground cord, it only acts as an earth and quality of conduction within the wire is not a factor worth considering. Also, the cords are replaceable! I know (a major) club engineer who replaces the cord whenever they buy new decks (about every 6 months) because he needs longer leads, and it takes him 10 mins. Pre-amp...what's the point if you're dj'ing and using a mixer? Key lock...for those who just can't mix in key.... vary speed settings......because tracks sound really good at +/- 20, and I 'spose it's useful if you can't pitch on on +/-8 My point is the other decks might try to add bells and whistles, but they are usually lower quality copies. Technics got it right first time round which is why in nearly 30 if production the design has only changed minimally.

+1

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wtf ppl... get your hands on a pair of Stanton ST.150/T.120C turntables and compare them with old fart Technics 1200 before making a judgement.. it's like a new Toyota Camry compared to an old BMW 3 series... you are just SO outdated if you still think SL1200 are the best

if you have been working on Technics tts for a 100 years that doesnt mean Stanton tts are inferior...that just means that Technics tts were the best for 99 years until came Stanton ST.150/T.120C. face it and stop acting like a mystic cult

get whatever at the end of the day they are just turntables.





i use technics myself though. straight arms look ghey.

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pink floyd - echoes.

i have a lot of respect for the stanton st-150, but i personally own technics m3ds...

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not all are stanton tonearms are straight. and you know... if you think of it for a while... "straight" and "ghay" doesn't blend very well huh? lol ))

in fact the tonearm of ST.150/T.120C is identical to the Technics only juuuust a lil better)

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Originally posted by Ryan0751 Why not solder your earbuds into your iPod and see how you like that?

unless you mean solder the plug into the headphone jack, the analogy makes no sense. soldering the plug to the headphone jack doesn't affect your ability to listen to music from the ipod... it just means you can't detach the cable anymore.

same thing w/the techs. you just can't detach the cables. i remember reading somewhere that rca jacks on the techs, and using your own cables would lower the signal level coming out of the turntable. i don't know how true this is tho...

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i agree w/the convenience thing... but i feel that it's safe to assume that what ever preamp a TT comes with is gonna be a piece of trash. good enough to get the job done of playing the track... but it's definately not something i would use for sampling, or ripping vinyl.

definatlely upgrade your dj mixer, or it's time to buy a real phono preamp, if you think your TT's preamp sounds better than your dj mixer.

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Aside from the 1200's, they've never made any other really successful DJ gear. At least Stanton innovated. That's my point.

hahaha... so true about technics. i don't agree w/stanton "innovating". to me they added bells and whistles. maybe the quality of their products have improved also... i'm not about to waste my time, or money finding out... but none of the feature they have added will make a bad dj, a good one. none of that stuff will make a beginner sound like a pro. techs won't do that either... even there are people who have a use for the extra stuff the stantons offer, i garuantee you that 99% of those people are not as good as they think they are. like all of the people who have to have mixer w/FX (like the djm600)

no matter how much you polish a turd, it's still a turd. just more stuff a fool can use to make a fool out of himself.

different strokes for different folks i guess...

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Originally posted by sr126 unless you mean solder the plug into the headphone jack, the analogy makes no sense. soldering the plug to the headphone jack doesn't affect your ability to listen to music from the ipod... it just means you can't detach the cable anymore. same thing w/the techs. you just can't detach the cables. i remember reading somewhere that rca jacks on the techs, and using your own cables would lower the signal level coming out of the turntable. i don't know how true this is tho... What if you don't like the way the pre-amps sound in your mixer? It's a convenience thing. i agree w/the convenience thing... but i feel that it's safe to assume that what ever preamp a TT comes with is gonna be a piece of trash. good enough to get the job done of playing the track... but it's definately not something i would use for sampling, or ripping vinyl. definatlely upgrade your dj mixer, or it's time to buy a real phono preamp, if you think your TT's preamp sounds better than your dj mixer. hahaha... so true about technics. i don't agree w/stanton "innovating". to me they added bells and whistles. maybe the quality of their products have improved also... i'm not about to waste my time, or money finding out... but none of the feature they have added will make a bad dj, a good one. none of that stuff will make a beginner sound like a pro. techs won't do that either... even there are people who have a use for the extra stuff the stantons offer, i garuantee you that 99% of those people are not as good as they think they are. like all of the people who have to have mixer w/FX (like the djm600) no matter how much you polish a turd, it's still a turd. just more stuff a fool can use to make a fool out of himself. different strokes for different folks i guess...

+1,000.

At last someone speaking the truth.

Having said that, not exactly true about technics never making anything else that was good - The exception to that was the sh1200, which for a long period was the truntablists battle mixer of choice, and smoked everything else until vestax upped the anti a couple of years later.

I too have trouble with the whole bell/whistles/FX thing. Listen to someone like cox or sasha (before ableton) and then try to justify the need for all the extras.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN +1,000. I too have trouble with the whole bell/whistles/FX thing. Listen to someone like cox or sasha (before ableton) and then try to justify the need for all the extras.

i agree 100%. you know, this is why i'm so vehemently anti pioneer. to me, zabiela's newer stuff just sounds like utter cacophony, like all this [zing zang beep bop] ... sounds like so many doorbells fucking ecah other or something.

i like a nice, simple, elegant, judiciously chosen loooooooong smooth mix. some effects are ok, granted, but the djm800 is going to create a breed of undertrained jocks who rely on bips and bops to mask their lack of confidence in the pure, simple, golden mix.

which is also why i can't stand to hear sasha "mix" with the maven... the transformation of mixing into on-the-fly mainpulation, in my opinion, amounts to the destruction of our craft, even as it's demonstrably pompous and just silly.

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isn't stanton made from oem parts?

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