![]() Clearly you have a world of experience modding regular 1200s.I love all types of music and genres and I am a go with the flow kind of guy. ![]() Where in every corner their where junkies or a hoodlum ready to mug you, although my childhood favorite memories was watching the DJ’s from my 3rd floor window plug in their DJ equipment. I grew up poor through most of the early 1980’s. I was born in Puerto Rico but raised in the Bronx. I go by DJ J-TEK, (Owner of Teks 1200 Shop) I have been DJ’ing over 20 years and now I customize Technics 1200’s on my own for my clients. Firstly introduce yourself to the DJWORX community.So we asked DJ J-Tek how and why he did it. Using Technics’ ill-fated SL-DZ1200 CD deck as a base, DJ J-TEK decided that the only thing to do was to add a tonearm. Yes, that’s an Akai AMX in a mixer case sandwiched between DJ-Jtek’s custom Technics JT-10 Mk1 modded SL-DZ1200s. Say hello to DJ J-Tek‘s wonderful SL-DZ1200 mod. But there is hope of sorts for another way to get a smaller Technics. I fear however that we’re not likely to ever see those appear in any commercial form. They still appear in timelines, and the original story is still a source of steady traffic for DJWORX. It’s easy to forget that when Technics’ first relaunch of the SL series in 2016 (the GAE) ran four times that price.It’s hard to forget when Biz Markie’s one-off set of 7″ Technics turntables appeared on the DJ scene. You might even not know that the Technics SL-1200MK7 actually got a re-release in 2019 and now sells for $999. Wait, what? There’s a $999 Technics DJ turntable? In this case, Technics have found a way to improve some of the components while removing others and selling the turntable as an affordable audiophile model… despite costing more $100 more than their DJ-ready turntable. In other words, make largely the same product (a nice SL turntable) and add or remove features to price it differently for different audiences. Let’s be real, Technics are masters of the concept of price discrimination, “a microeconomic pricing strategy where identical or largely similar goods or services are sold at different prices by the same provider”. I’m sure someone will explain to us in the comments what about the 100C is worth lusting over. But would you pay more money for a less-featured model than their leading DJ turntable ( more on that below)?Īuthor’s note: I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know enough about audiophile gear to “get” the feature set that high fidelity enthusiasts crave. It comes with an Audio-Technica VM95C cartridge, which has a tapered needle that’s more likely to fit the needs of an audiophile than a DJ. This model is missing the phono stage, and like the other “C” model, lacks a pitch fader. The SL-100C still has the direct drive iron-coreless motor of the other newer SL models, and an S-shaped tone arm, and a sound dampening insulator. They even made the slightly nicer SL-1500C in 2019, which similarly was missing a pitch fader but still was well received by the hi-fi / audiophile market. Look, we already know that Technics is moving heavily into the hi-fi market – we’ve know this for years. They’re promoting it as “low cost” and affordable, but the reality is, this new Technics turntable is expected to cost, at retail: £799 / €899/ (about $1,110 US). This time, Technics has really outdone themselves – adding a new model of SL turntable called the SL-100C. Welcome back to the “what the heck happened to that company?” department.
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