![]() Aptly advertised as “Tough enough to take the disco beat. In 1978, Technics updated the 1200 line introducing the MK2 model incorporating a host of improvements including greater resistant to external feedback, less internal vibration, an extremely accurate quartz-controlled motor and a sliding pitch control, replacing the rotary control of its predecessor. This turntable was, of course, the Technics 1200. Its specifications could be matched only by the SP10, the world’s first direct drive turntable introduced just 2 years earlier by the same company, a turntable that had quickly become the standard for broadcast and recording applications. A departure from the belt and idler drive turntables of the day, it featured a brushless high torque direct drive motor, a heavy vibration-damped chassis and a low mass, S-shaped tonearm suitable for the modern high compliance cartridges of the day. ![]() In October 1972, The Matsushita Electric Company, more commonly known today as Panasonic, launched a new mid-priced hi-fi turntable under its Technics brand.
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