Inspire Monarch

For audiophiles of a certain age, ‘direct-drive’ symbolises an entire generation of cheap, mediocre Japanese turntables that flooded mass market retail outlets like Laskys and Comet in the late nineteen seventies and early eighties. At the time, the British hi-fi press didn’t

Technics SL-1200LTD

For the DJ who had everything, in 1997 Technics brought you the SL-1200LTD, a thousand pounds’ worth of piano black lacquer and 24-carat gold plating affixed to probably the biggest selling, most long lived turntable in history. And as if that