> That is the strangest definition of "discontinued" that I have > ever heard.
If Japan was producing them, there would be supply and mainstream sellers would have stock. I scoured the web and called about 20 established sellers last month looking for one. Both retail and online. All but BH and mom+pop/s were out, all were saying discontinued. It's been that way since early 2010. Yeah, a GuitarStore had 2 factory sealed MK5's for $950 each, and they still do because everyone with a brain is going new OEM at $500 or used SL for less than that. Mat/Tec/Pan does not rebase existing model consumer products into the strato market, they sell through and leave. The ramp in SL price with the remaining small stock sellers only serves to confirm there is no production or new supply from some fabled mega distributor warehouse. Distributors hate inventory anyways, it's not their biz. Just in case further proof is needed to support the obvious, google, google, tappity tap, clickity click, huzzah... http://studio-lights.com/blog/technics-discontinued-1200-turntable.htm http://studio-lights.com/images/blog/technics-turntable-letter.jpg Nuff said. > With a modest investment in hardware mods, you can turn a stock > 1210 or 1200 into an audiophile deck for not a lot of money (on > the audiophile spending scale). And for no investment one can afford the other needed items and be equally as satisfied as the audi's. And never have to worry about replacing an obsolete or esoteric belt. Belts do absorb motor noise/mod, as do heavy platters and chassis. Belts also have elastic spring issues with large masses and have very short lifetimes. I put a test record (sine waves, noise, samples, that sort of thing) on a few turntables, listened and checked a scope. Heavy metal platters and chassis, as opposed to cheapo plastic lightweights were the winner. More than DD vs. belt. With DD, I also chose to avoid hard, cracked and welted belts, by design, forever. One can only smooth things as far as the number of poles in the motor and speed sensor will afford. Good driver electronics only help reach those limitations. Take them apart, DD and belt motor tech is similar. Some have feedback circuits, some don't. Unlike CD-DA and FLAC, analog is not bits. And unfortunately, the audi's don't use numbers in their reviews. That sucks. > Audio Technica AT-PL120 deck? I have not seen it in person. From what I can tell by looking at AT's site, it is a fair clone of the SL-1200, even down to the pop-up light (it's shorter and fatter). The tonearm mount gimbals are way different. AT is not a Mat/Pan/Tec company. I saw only an SL-1200, an ST.150 and some plastic thing I don't care to remember. And some kilobuck audi stuff at the nosebleed shop, but only for kicks. Liked the phono and backup line out of the (OEM) Stanton ST.150. And yes, price was a factor, I've got bills to pay :) Best place to eyeball all the turntables is youtube demos :) There's a great one of a guy tapping on an ST.150. No way I could walk around on these floors and expect a good rip with plastic. And of course check the manufacturer site, along with their W/F, S/N (rumble) and weight specs. > And packaging by OS distributions (making the RPM and DEB files). > different users typed in different versions of song titles. And that's Leave the raw tracks sequentially numbered. Use symlinks to hold the names. Change, sort, duplicate and categorize the links as desired. Oh well, this is waaayyy off topic, I'll shut up now :) _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
