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I'm sure some of you have seen this before.... nice to see them back, although I'd imagine the price will be hefty....


http://www.technics.com/global/introduc ... l-1200gae/

The site is a bit... well flash based, but the pics are nice! For those of you who buy your hifi by weight, this one comes in at a hefty 18kg!

Always wanted one of the originals back in the day when they were sold in Laffayette (?) on the quay. Couldn't afford one at the time so went for a Dual 505 which wasn't a bad deck in its day. Will be interesting to see the price - I predict it will be fairly high.

The standard ones are very well built, and partnered with the right arm make a great table. The base on them is a really heavy rigid rubber type compound that damps the be jaysus out of it. The heavy alu plate top on this, with the nearer brass platter should make a better table again. It will be interesting to see the final price, but at 2-3k it might be a good buy.

Depends a fair bit on the arm too. If it was that price and you had to add a better arm, the costs start to rise a lot.

Reading the blurb for the 1200G I think it`s called - the limited one - there is mention of a "magnesium tonearm". Fairly tricky to manufacture I imagine, if even possible. Seems a bit overkill if true as the arm isn`t up to much and any Rega would trounce it imo.

While I'm sure they can be great tables and they certainly have their fans, I never liked the look of them. To me, they're DJ decks and I can't help thinking of the likes of Fat Boy Slim, scratching and mixing and generally "large-ing" it up with some "bangin'" dance tracks in an Ibiza club...

Unfair perhaps...but I just don't see them as domestic turntables.

It's priced at $4,000. That's that then.

If its $4000, then it'll be €5000!!