Kam DDX4500 USB turntable Part one.

Right folks, Jonathan here. A bit more on this particular turntable here. But first of all, let's have a look at this one here. That there is an old, but that is a Technics SL1200 turntable. Now I'm going to put that down there for a second. Very quickly I want to explain to you the idea behind a Technics SL1200 turntable. It was designed in the 70s, quote me if I'm wrong. And you see, I've got this opinion that the person who designed it, designed it around the old American cars from the 70s. Square, boxy, big, bold. The difference between the Technics SL1200 as opposed to those cars is those cars looked big but they probably drove atrociously and they broke down every five seconds. The difference being with an SL1200 is it was big.

Boxy and bold, but the internal workings were not dissimilar to a Porsche, a Lamborghini, a Ferrari or a Rolls Royce. The reason I'm saying that is look how much that particular turntable has changed over the years. Virtually nothing really. At the end of the day they've tweaked it a tiny bit, but it's exactly the same as say like having a Lamborghini from 20 years ago and maybe just the... The person who designed it thought, I'm just going to put a button inside it so it looks exactly the same but you've got an extra button. Or maybe a Porsche and they thought, well I'm just going to maybe tweak the central locking. That's all they've done and that's all they've needed to do with the likes of the SL1200. Now the reason a lot of turntables have not or have all of a sudden just changed is because Technics SL1200s had the copyright to the direct drive motor.

And that copyright ran out a few years ago, quote me if I'm wrong there. So of course then everyone jumped on the bandwagon and started doing direct drive. The thing is though, is that a lot of them weren't very good. Seriously. Some of the direct drive turntables, well, I'm not saying they're pants, I'm not going to give any makes, models or names, believe me, but you'd stick a record on the platter and you'd think, brilliant, direct drive, and you'd put your finger on that particular record. And it would stop, so it's not very good is it? You need something with a bit of power and a bit of oomph. Now I'm not saying alright this one's got loads of power and loads of oomph and well what am I saying about this deck actually? I like it. Well I'll tell you what we'll do. I'm going to pause the camera and we'll have a closer look. Hold tight.

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