Does anyone know why Technics 1200's cost so much?

ntalec wrote:
That's like me saying I f@cked a b@tch without a condom and didn't catch anything so that means it's safe to go raw.

The real on 1200's is most people don't know enough about how they should feel to see problems in the arm, platter, suspension or motor.
They are completely happy because a marginal 1200 is still gonna be better than what most people are using or use to.
Still doesn't change the fact that the table has issues from previous use and you will quickly notice if you know how it's supposed to be.
They have done a lot of little tweaks over the years that people don't even seem to notice but they made the table feel different, and I'm talking just on the straight 1200mk2.

more nonsense. you obviously just aren't good at hounding for gear at good prices. that's all.

yes, there is also damaged gear out there... don't buy it. end of story.

there are PLENTY of deals to be had on technics tables in prime condition.

crossings wrote:


more nonsense. you obviously just aren't good at hounding for gear at good prices. that's all.

yes, there is also damaged gear out there... don't buy it. end of story.

there are PLENTY of deals to be had on technics tables in prime condition.

Oh so now you change it from deals dropping out the sky to hunting down deals.
There are deals just not plenty as you tried to make it sound.
The are far more bad 1200 for sale than good 1200 and that's not based on locality, that's just reality.

Everytime they raise the price of them new the use market shifts as well and more people start to think they will sell their problem 1200 and make some $$$$.
No different from the number of intermittent 4k's that people keep getting because the value peaks in the use market.

You just must be one of those who doesn't know how a fully functional 1200 feels or been around enough of them to know the difference.
It's more to it than cosemetics and you instantly know if someone has tweaked, repaired or replaced something.

ntalec, are you out of your damn mind? you're seriously just arguing for the sake of arguing here.

the deals are easy to find... have you even tried?

at this point i'm willing to sell you a fully functional technics 1200 mk2 for $250 plus shipping just to get you to shut the **** up already.

oh that's right.. it's probably damaged because how would i ever be able to tell a damaged one from a functional one??

puh-leez...

Maybe the cost has something to do with all this crap that was circulating.


http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=11415

they cost so much cause they suck. plus a bunch of wannabe djs will fork out the cash.

I beg to differ, wannabe dj's use these last time I checked

Grenozh wrote:I beg to differ, wannabe dj's use these last time I checked

just cause you got tech's dont mean you aint a wannabe. just like all the kids with mpc1000's

cyrus wrote:...just like all the kids with mpc1000's*

*that were bought by their parents.

They cost decent money because they are the biz, I got my 1200s in 2001 and they still work perfect and look brand new. I got them cheap after Christmas in the sales. Doo doo dj use cd's . Vinyl for ever

the truth is they cost so much cause dick clark, casey kasem, and carson daily use and came up on em, and who doesnt wanna be like them

Just got a brand new SL 1200 MK5 shipped for 650 shipped from B and H photo.

i got a 1200 mk2 and mk5 for 400 total, was an awesome deal. had to travel mad far though to pick em up.

They cost so much money because you can throw them down a flight of stairs and they will probably still work, they have been around for about 26 years I think, everyone knows the name and trusts the name, they're in such high demand (yes even after the birth of digital dj'ing) that there would be no need to bring the price down.

I actually use vesax pdx mk11 pro purely because I can't be arsed with needle jumps and the ultra pitch is tight for many of reasons like sampling at a crazy speed to safe space on my mpc, making music from tones and also if you have tracktor or serato it's very cool to record a scratch record at a crazy fast speed, then when you wanna use the recorded wav track for scratching you use the ultra pitch to slow down the vinyl to an incredibly slow speed meaning you have much more control over cuts using words like phrasing etc and the sample is being played back at the same speed as it would on 33 1/3.

sorry I know this is about 1210's but I got carried away there.