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The DJing community and the greater dance music scene mourns the loss of a clubbing staple today. No, Steve Aoki hasn’t hung up his record bag, but rather news has emerged that iconic turntable manufacturers Technics will be stopping production on their universally loved Technics 1200s and Technics 1210s.

In a statement re-posted on dance board Global Hardstyle, the company behind the production of the Technics turntables Panasonic announced that they would cease the manufacture of Tehcnics turntables in February next year, citing an increasing decline in sales as the motivation behind the line’s demise.

The Australian arm of Panasonic issued a similar statement today, expressing their disappointment that the brand’s 35 years-and-running legacy was to be put to bed.

“It is a sad day today but due to low sales globally in analogue turntables a decision to stop production has been made on Technics Turntables,” Panasonic spokesman Ian North explained. “For Australia this means we will receive our last shipment in March.”

With the disappearance of Technics decks now imminent it’s becoming increasingly clear that the digital juggernaut is showing no signs of slowing down. We’ve already heard from trance icon Tiesto how he’s abandoned the ‘outdated’ medium in favour and gone for the ease and accessibility of digital tune libraries. Indeed, the new (and might we just say super-sexy) CDJ-2000s from Pioneer look to be making things easier than ever before with USB stick functionality, employed just last weekend by another digital convert Sasha.

Whilst we’re sure the classic Technics turntables will live on in the hearts of many club-reverent folk out there – not to mention in more than a few purist clubs – it’s still a crushing blow to lose the decks, and if nobody minds, we’ll be bringing beer o’clock around early this Friday afternoon.

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for tiden afspiller jeg meget musik - det lyder godt

Trist, trist, men måske er der håb om, at nogen køber værktøjet af technincs og fortsætter produktionen i mindre skala - det har man da hørt om før. Måsk var det noget for KAB.

Hejsa , er 1210 ikke blevet kopieret , jeg mener det hed Stageline - eller var det en Technics solgt under et andet navn . ?????
mvh.thomas.


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Altid frisk på en hyggesnak om spolemaskiner..

Jo, Stageline lavede en kopi. Det samme gjorde andre firmaer som producerede PA / diskoteksudstyr.
Det er ikke det samme som en original Technics 1210 eller 1200 for den sags skyld.
Jeg havde mobildiskotek for små 10 år siden.
Vi har stadig et sættet med 2 stk 1210´ere med en mixer til at stå. Den har været oppe et par gange siden for at mindes de gamle dage. Sådan en spiller er lavet til at holde noget nær evigt. Det er kram.
Og lyden fra sådan en er faktisk heller ikke ringe


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Mvh Thue

Ro på, det er en and, har netop fundet det her på audioasylum.com:

"Clarification came from Panasonic UK to squash rumours. And It’s not what you might think. So here goes – the 1200MK5 and 1210MK5 WILL be discontinued leaving the 1210MK5G as the top of the range and most definitely NOT discontinued. It never was a limited edition, just a flagship special edition model. And the 1200 and 1210 MK2 will continue as normal. So now there’s some distance between the MK2 and MK5G models instead having a middle MK5 deck to confuse matters. So it’s vanilla Technics or the more expensive piano black extra pitched blue light luxury model left in the range."