Last month we wrote about the new Technics SL-1210MKX, the latest chapter in an SL-1200 story that began in 1972. It brings a heavier chassis, new isolation feet and, for the first time in the series, a dedicated ±4% pitch range, so DJs can make finer adjustments when two records sit a hair apart. It arrives in January 2027 at £1,299 a deck. I read the press release twice and had a quiet laugh, because the decks I learned on could not hold 0%, let alone fine tune within 4.
A few months ago on Throwback Thursday we went through the cheap DJ mixers that built a generation of bedroom DJs, the Realistics, the Numarks and the…
