Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Technics is the most famous brand of the Matsushita Company. Manufacturing all kinds of consumer audio equipment (amps, speakers, CD-players, tuners etc) they built their reputation mainly on their construction of some of the best record players (turntables) ever made. They introduced the first direct-drive system in 1969 (the SP-10) for professional use and in 1971 (SL-1100) for the consummer market. From then on catered for the budget-consumer market, the serious audiophile as well as the broadcast industry. The best known model became the SL-1200Mk2 which became the standard turntable first for Hip Hop and then for all other DJs. see: Matsushita Panasonic JVC This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.