Sheet 09 · Marginalia
Marginalia
The things that don't fit on a spec sheet. All of it citable.
- 01
3.5 million wheels of steel
Around 3.5 million sold across the series, the best-selling high-performance turntable in history.[1] Classic Driver[2] What Hi-Fi
- 02
It's in a museum. Literally.
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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Indestructible eventually meant irrelevant
1970s decks were still in club service in 2010. Nobody needed replacements, part of why the line died.[1] Japan Today
- 05
Sold out faster than the records it plays
The 2016 GAE's Japanese allocation (1,200 numbered units at ~$4,000) sold out in about 30 minutes.[1] What Hi-Fi
- 06
The DMC standard
Official decks of the DMC World DJ Championships for decades, fittingly, the 2010 discontinuation notice was posted 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, gently and fragilely. 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. Technics does not miss.[1] Wikipedia[2] Crossfader