I have a lot of electronics, I love electronic devices though sometimes they seem to hate me.
I have a device that I love over all the others and I use it for 29 years now though not on a regular daily base: my turntable.
Turntables experienced a renaissance during the past decade. People like the real feel of putting vinyl on a real machine instead of just dragging mp3 files to a software. I always appreciate playing a record over playing a CD. I don‘t have a CD player for years. I used to use a high-end player from Sony back then. What I preserved over the decades was my MK2.
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This turntable is iconic. It is THE DJ turntable, used around the globe by famous performers. There were a lot of clones produced by other manufacturers and even the original vendor, Technics, issued some updates.
I own the original Technics SL-1210 MK2 which is the black version. The model itself was born in the same years as I was, in 1972.
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I bought mine back in 1989 for 1000 DM (about 500 EUR) including a DJ pickup. I earned the money during my school holidays with hard physical labour at the university in Berlin. I worked in the agricultural institute for 4 weeks, digging the soil. My reward was this machine which will survive me for sure. Even the little light bulb is the original one.
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There are no parts that will perish. No belt but a magnetic direct drive driven by quartz technology. I replaced the initial coil of course years ago, so this Qbert from Ortofon is the second.
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As vinyl is becoming popular again I am very happy to have this baby!
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