Sheet 09 · Marginalia
Marginalia
The things that don't fit on a spec sheet. All of it citable.
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About 3.5 million sold
Around 3.5 million sold across the series, the best-selling high-performance turntable in history.[1] Classic Driver[2] What Hi-Fi
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The Science Museum has one
London's Science Museum displays an SL-1210MK2 among the items that "made the Modern World."[1] Wikipedia
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The DJ deck was an accident
The MK2 was engineered as a hi-fi deck. Its symmetric electronic braking just happened to be exactly what beatmatching needed.[1] Wikipedia[2] Stereophile
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It lasted too well
1970s decks were still in club service in 2010. Clubs had no reason to buy new ones, which is part of why the line died.[1] Japan Today
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The GAE lasted 30 minutes
The 2016 GAE's Japanese allocation (1,200 numbered units at ~$4,000) sold out in about 30 minutes.[1] What Hi-Fi
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The DMC standard
The official deck of the DMC World DJ Championships for decades. When Panasonic stopped making it in 2010, the notice went up on DMC's site.[1] Pocket-lint
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There's a plywood one in the art world
Sculptor Tom Sachs built a scale SL-1200MK2 entirely out of wood. It doesn't play, but everything moves. Shown in "Spaceships" at Acquavella Galleries, New York, 2022. Sachs included it because records are the only medium with "real, true, random access to information."[1] Tom Sachs Archive[2] artnet
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Numerology, committed
MK6K1: 1,200 units. GAE: 1,200 units. 1210GAE: 1,210 units. M7L: 12,000 units. Somebody at Technics likes the number.[1] Wikipedia[2] Crossfader