Technics SL-1200MK2
Short description[edit]
Manual record player with direct drive. Heavily modified successor of the Technics SL-1200. Achieved great fame through the use in discotheques and work equipment for DJs.
Data[edit]
General
- Manufacturer: Technics
- Model: SL-1200MK2
- Type: Turntable
- Years of manufacture: 1979 - 2010
- Made in: Japan
- Colour: Silver-grey
- Power consumption: 16 W
- Dimensions: 453 x 162 x 360 mm (WxHxD)
- Weight: 12.5 kg
- Original price approx.: 990 DM
Connections
- Outputs: 1x RCA cable
Technical data
- Drive: direct drive, quartz-controlled
- Motor: DC motor, brushless
- Speed: 33.33/min, 45/min
- Synchronous speed fluctuation: 0.025 % (WRMS)
- Rumble noise ratio:
- -56 dB (IEC, unweighted).
- -78 dB (IEC, rated)
- Turntable: 33.2 cm; aluminium; 1.7 kg
- Operating mode: manual
- Pitch: ±8 %
- Tonearm: Technics
- Material:
- Total length:
- Length pivot point - tip: 230 mm
- Offset angle: 22º
- Pickup overhang: 15 mm
- Counterweight overhang:
- permissible pickup weights: 3.5 - 13 g / 11 - 20.5 g (including headshell).
- inertial mass of the arm: 12 g
- adjustment range for support weight: 0 - 4 g
- height adjustment range: 6 mm
- cable capacity:
- pickup: Technics EPC-207 C (MM), later without pickup
Special Features
- Four-row stroboscope with illumination
- Illumination for pickup (incandescent lamp)
- Electronic brake
- Rubber disc mat
- Speed control (pitch)
- Max. Torque: 1.5 kg/cm
- Start-up time: 0.7 s
Remarks[edit]
- Other models in the same series:
- Technics SL-120
- Technics SL-1200
- Technics SL-1200G/GAE
- Technics SL-1200GR
- Technics SL-1200GLD
- Technics SL-1200LTD
- Technics SL-1200MK2
- Technics SL-1200MK3
- Technics SL-1200MK4
- Technics SL-1200MK5
- Technics SL-1210
- Technics SL-1210MK2
- Technics SL-1210MK3
- Technics SL-1210MK4
- Technics SL-1210MK5
- Technics SL-1210M3D
- Technics SL-1210M5G
Pictures[edit]
- Extract from brochure: Technics SL-1200MK2
Reports[edit]
- image hifi issue 1/2006, single test: without final score
- "What likes: workmanship; reliability; ease of use; straight-as-an-arrow sound."
- "What's missing: a show-off version in piano lacquer. Oops, there is (as a limited edition)."
- HiFi Test issue 2/2009, 4 products tested.
- Grade 1.1; top class price/performance: good
- "Plus: very good sound; extremely robust construction; universal use."
- hifitest.de
- "Impressive also, how the bear-strong drive pulls the heavy cast plate up to the target speed in fractions of a second and then maintains this unshakably. Just as stable as the stroboscopic display of the speed is the musical performance of the Technics: calm, powerful and with a lot of clarity, it captivates even the non-disc jockeys among the listeners. At the same time, it offers a perfectly prepared playing field for a wide range of pick-ups, even of the highest quality, and impressively dispels the myth that large DJ turntables are not for sophisticated music listening. On the contrary, young up-and-coming DJs should watch out that dad doesn't dust off their work equipment for his old classical and jazz records!"