SL1200 Turntable

Originally released as a high-fidelity consumer record player, the Technics 1200 quickly became adopted among radio and club disc-jockeys, thanks to the direct drive high-torque motor design, making it, initially, suitable for pushbutton cueing and starting of tracks on radio.  Latterly, when the use of slip-mats for cueing and beat-mixing (and scratching) became popular, the quartz-controlled high-torque motor system enabled records to be mixed with consistency and accuracy.