Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo Beatles on Axioms

The Technics MKII is the DJ standard. I looked at them long and hard because I wanted something that was new and wouldn't break down on me every six months. I'm not at all a technician, so this was ultra-important to me. I had just spent six months not listening to vinyl because my Dual stopped working properly. In the end I got her fixed and bought an inexpensive Dual 502 in mint condition as a back-up in case that ever happens again. One day, if a 1200 fell into my hands, I wouldn't say no! Enjoy!

AT makes the best carts on the market these days. The AT 440MLa is incredible sounding. Sadly, the price seems to have gone up in the last six months. Good thing I've got one extra on hand, but I wish I had more! $200 a pop would make me think twice about when I use it, which isn't the way I listen to music—ever.

I like that Technics turntable Mark, reminds me of the Technics turntable I had in the mid 70's, I believe I'm going to end up getting me another turntable one of these days.

Also ... I do have several vinyl albums to keep me and a turntable busy for a little while but am curious to know if there are a few places that still sell vinyl, last I heard they were about 30 bucks a piece?

Technics has always made great turntables and I still have mine. I intially had a Thorens 125 but my turntable from 1978 on was a Technics 1700. Besides its ruggedness and durability, the quartz lock pitch control on that technics TT made sure that the vinyl always rotated at the right speed. Sounded great with all sorts of cartrdges though in the later years I went with the Ortofon MM line. The more I think of it, I'm amazed it survived the raucous parties from the 70's and 80's.

I went with a VPI Scout earlier this year with a Dynavector 20x-HO MC cartridge which in many respects is a better TT/cartridge combo but I doubt it will last as long as the Technics.

The 1700 is what I had John ... can kick myself in the buttocks for letting that thing go at a garage sell a few years ago, although I now can't recall but I'd hate to think how little it probably went for at our moving sell.

Hey Rick, mine is sitting idle at the moment but its one of the few components I've had that never let me down or needed servicing so its staying. They come up for sale every once in a while at ridiculously low prices. The sl-1700 was based on the 1200 platform but with that semi-automatic feature which I miss on the VPI Scout.

Here you go for nostalgia. http://www.vinylengine.com/library/technics/sl-1700.shtml

I've been getting back into vinyl since early last year and its a no contest for dynamic range and musicality compared to cds. I've been rediscoving my vinyl collection though half of it is too scratchy to listen too. The stuff that's in good condition never sounded better. In fact just this morning I dug out my original pressing of Tom Petty's "Damn the Torpedoes" and "Hard Promises" from around 1980 while I was doing my morning excercises. Its amazing how much better they sound than the cd versions.

My TT from high school was the Pioneer PL-518 with a Shure V15 cartridge.

I had it sitting on a big "L" shaped entertainment Center that I built in shop class. The base held a TV with cassettes and LPs below. The left of the base held the TT with a "rack" above (making the "L"). The "rack" had two switches mounted on it; the first was for a hidden, "under-shelf" 15-watt light above the turntable and the other switch operated a muffin fan that exhausted air upwards from the top-mounted integrated amp. The TT sat on a "floating lid" box that was filled with sand that helped reduce infrasonics.

Someday, I'll have to dig up a photo! It was pretty cool looking for when the ladies came over....

I remember those Pioneer TTs. Very solid and sounded great with shure cartridges. Its amazing how this stuff is getting popular again. What's even more amazing is how cheap you can get them for, though prices on the well built vintage TTs are rising now as more people (re)discover them.

The wow & flutter spec seems much better for the Technics.. assuming it isn't a misprint.

No misprint. It's one of the things that Technics TT are noted for. In their day ,and still today I guess,Technics direct drive "quartz lock" system keeps playback speed irregularities much lower than most other similar priced turntables.

L shapes...... (Hmmmmm)

Undershelving..... (Is this underwear for the exceptionally sagged?)

Floating Shelves (anti-gravity?)

Muffin Fans (eaten with mushroom tea, perhaps?)

Infrasonics ??????


I think Mark found his old turntable with a bag of some other organic stuff he owned in the 60s at the time.



Just Kidding Man! No really! Peace Out!