technics 1210mk2 spelling error?

Elkie · Post by **Elkie** » Sat May 09, 2009 5:49 pm

haha, so this is well pointless but i thought it was kinda weird...

i cleaned my decks today, cause they were well grimy and shit (they live in the living room of a shared house with 7 people, it gets quite messy in there...)

i was looking at the sticker on the side, where the dust cover mounts are, and the sticker says "driect drive turntabel system" haha...

just wondered if anyone else's sticker said the same?

sorry this is kind of a shit thread, delete it if you want... cheers

stompzi · Post by **stompzi** » Sat May 09, 2009 6:08 pm

Did you buy these from a guy on a Thai beach or your local dyslexic?

Elkie · Post by **Elkie** » Sat May 09, 2009 6:19 pm

haha they were off ebay actually, second hand...

i hope they arent fake haha

!
surely counterfeit turntables isnt a very lucrative business though...

maybe they were originally from HTFR?

John Locke · Post by **John Locke** » Sun May 10, 2009 11:03 am

seems pretty suspicious if u ask me. where did the package come from when the decks arrived?

gotta admit ive never heard of fake 1210s, but then i'd never heard of fake shure mics either...

...till i bought one

Elkie · Post by **Elkie** » Sun May 10, 2009 4:49 pm

do you think theres actually a chance they could be dodgy then?

i thought it was just funny, but im worried they could be dodgy now!
they play like any other 1210s ive used though, they dont feel cheap or anything!

anyone else got the same mistakes on the sticker?

Brisance · Post by **Brisance** » Sun May 10, 2009 4:54 pm

TightLife wrote: they play like any other 1210s ive used though?

If thatäs the case, you shouldn't worry about it.

Elkie · Post by **Elkie** » Sun May 10, 2009 5:02 pm

Brisance wrote:
TightLife wrote: they play like any other 1210s ive used though?
If thatäs the case, you shouldn't worry about it.

yeah i suppose, but still, if they are i feel a bit cheated haha
and anyway, it would be nice to know!

serox · Post by **serox** » Sun May 10, 2009 9:37 pm

Dude sorry to tell you this but there are fake turntables from Asia that have spelling mistakes.

j-sh · Post by **j-sh** » Sun May 10, 2009 9:51 pm

the point where this went from 'lol spelling mistakes' in your head to 'oh shit maybe theyre fakes' must have been a fucking bummer.

i really hate it when shit like that happens.

caunterstrike · Post by **caunterstrike** » Sun May 10, 2009 10:04 pm

i bet you wish you never realised that now

octave_noize · Post by **octave_noize** » Sun May 10, 2009 10:48 pm

lol (or not

)

sounds dodgy

you got any pics mate?

John Locke · Post by **John Locke** » Mon May 11, 2009 4:12 am

yo, actually, i think u are okay: i just checked and mine say the same thing.

or maybe mine r fake too?

nah, not likely. got them from turnkey.

or is that why they went out of business?

no, seriously, Ive had them about 10 years, and never had any problems with them at all.

bare in mind that even if there are fake 1210s from asia (likely), even the real ones come from asia too (japan), so a spelling mistake on a sticker aint impossible. i wonder how good the spelling of japanese stickers would be if technics were manufactured in the west midlands.

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Mon May 11, 2009 4:21 am

Checked mine, it is spelled correctly. I am sure it is entirely possible that Technics themselves made the mistake. I really don't think they are faking the Techs. If it was a fake you would probably be able to tell right away.

Elkie · Post by **Elkie** » Mon May 11, 2009 7:43 am

hmmm, really good to hear someone else has the same mistakes on the label!
id be quite surprised if they were fake, nothing else about them suggests that they are, they dont feel cheaply made or anything!
i was thinking its possibly something to do with the fact they are made in japan... maybe a certain batch number or something?

ill try and get a picture up later today!

cheers for all your responses guys, especially battle gong for providing me with peace of mind haha!

lojik · Post by **lojik** » Mon May 11, 2009 8:25 am

If they play exactly like other technics they will be genuine becuase the build quality is what makes technics unique. Genuine techs with a spelling mistake might actually be worth more, some people collect weird stuff like that

serox · Post by **serox** » Mon May 11, 2009 8:59 am

Have asked 6 people to check there's and they have all said there's are spelt correct and any spelling mistakes could mean they are not real Technics.

A quick search on google suggests the same thing.

Elkie · Post by **Elkie** » Mon May 11, 2009 12:30 pm

Lojik wrote:If they play exactly like other technics they will be genuine becuase the build quality is what makes technics unique. Genuine techs with a spelling mistake might actually be worth more, some people collect weird stuff like that

yeah this is what im thinking, if they were fake it would be noticiable..?
if they were bad enogu hcopies for the label to be misspelled, surely the quality of the actual turntable would be pretty shoddy too?

hmm, i really want to find out for sure now, just for peace of mind...

John Locke · Post by **John Locke** » Mon May 11, 2009 4:46 pm

abZ wrote: If it was a fake you would probably be able to tell right away.

not necessarily. took me ages to work out if the shure mic i got is fake or not. in the end it WAS very obvious (an extra sticker inside about voiding warranty if opened was the give away), but it had nothing to do with quality of build; the mic is pretty much identical to look at (and doesnt even sound all that bad tbh. was still well worth the 20quid i paid new).

sumthing inportant 2 consider when talking about "fakes" is that it aint like back in the day when a fake was a badly built piece of shit from taiwan or somewhere, while the original was made in germany. now pretty much everything is made in the same factories in china anyway, so a "fake" might actually have been made by the same workers, in the same factory, on the same machines, but off the record and then shipped out the back door. apparently this is a really big, big problem for fashion brands, cos the 10 quid prada fakes can be identical 2 the 500 quid originals: the factory just runs off a few hundred thousand more units when the client aint watching.

anyway, if i'd just bough my 1210s off ebay then i'd probably b pretty worried too by now, but as i said, i had em years, played out on them plenty without any problems, and got em from what was probably the most reputable store in the UK. i think its just a dodgy sticker on the japanese build 1210s.

and as sum1 pointed out already: doesnt matter 2me even if they are fake cos they work. and i aint selling them, ever, so no problem...

out of interest tho: any1 with "real" technics can let us know if there is ANY sticker on the back or not? the sticker in question is black, and says made in japan by matsushita electrical co or something like that. do the correctly spelt stickers say made in japan, or somwhere else?

EDIT: googling "fake technics 1210s" brings up this thread as top result, followed by 4 pages of results NOT about fake 1210s, and then i gave up looking. so what did u find that i missed?

Elkie · Post by **Elkie** » Mon May 11, 2009 7:23 pm

Battle Gong wrote:
abZ wrote: If it was a fake you would probably be able to tell right away.
not necessarily. took me ages to work out if the shure mic i got is fake or not. in the end it WAS very obvious (an extra sticker inside about voiding warranty if opened was the give away), but it had nothing to do with quality of build; the mic is pretty much identical to look at (and doesnt even sound all that bad tbh. was still well worth the 20quid i paid new).

sumthing inportant 2 consider when talking about "fakes" is that it aint like back in the day when a fake was a badly built piece of shit from taiwan or somewhere, while the original was made in germany. now pretty much everything is made in the same factories in china anyway, so a "fake" might actually have been made by the same workers, in the same factory, on the same machines, but off the record and then shipped out the back door. apparently this is a really big, big problem for fashion brands, cos the 10 quid prada fakes can be identical 2 the 500 quid originals: the factory just runs off a few hundred thousand more units when the client aint watching.

anyway, if i'd just bough my 1210s off ebay then i'd probably b pretty worried too by now, but as i said, i had em years, played out on them plenty without any problems, and got em from what was probably the most reputable store in the UK. i think its just a dodgy sticker on the japanese build 1210s.

and as sum1 pointed out already: doesnt matter 2me even if they are fake cos they work. and i aint selling them, ever, so no problem...

out of interest tho: any1 with "real" technics can let us know if there is ANY sticker on the back or not? the sticker in question is black, and says made in japan by matsushita electrical co or something like that. do the correctly spelt stickers say made in japan, or somwhere else?

the thing is, even though mine were from ebay, they ended up being from someone who although i didnt know, seemed pretty genuine, let me collect in person and had other related gear for sale on ebay too (a disco dj style cd unit)

Battle Gong wrote: EDIT: googling "fake technics 1210s" brings up this thread as top result, followed by 4 pages of results NOT about fake 1210s, and then i gave up looking. so what did u find that i missed?

yeah, i tried searching for "technics driect drive turntabel system" too, just to see if anyone else had noticed the same thing and been bothered/sad enough to post it on the internet

didnt find anything though!

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Mon May 11, 2009 7:28 pm

Battle Gong wrote:
abZ wrote: If it was a fake you would probably be able to tell right away.
not necessarily. took me ages to work out if the shure mic i got is fake or not. in the end it WAS very obvious (an extra sticker inside about voiding warranty if opened was the give away), but it had nothing to do with quality of build; the mic is pretty much identical to look at (and doesnt even sound all that bad tbh. was still well worth the 20quid i paid new).

sumthing inportant 2 consider when talking about "fakes" is that it aint like back in the day when a fake was a badly built piece of shit from taiwan or somewhere, while the original was made in germany. now pretty much everything is made in the same factories in china anyway, so a "fake" might actually have been made by the same workers, in the same factory, on the same machines, but off the record and then shipped out the back door. apparently this is a really big, big problem for fashion brands, cos the 10 quid prada fakes can be identical 2 the 500 quid originals: the factory just runs off a few hundred thousand more units when the client aint watching.

anyway, if i'd just bough my 1210s off ebay then i'd probably b pretty worried too by now, but as i said, i had em years, played out on them plenty without any problems, and got em from what was probably the most reputable store in the UK. i think its just a dodgy sticker on the japanese build 1210s.

and as sum1 pointed out already: doesnt matter 2me even if they are fake cos they work. and i aint selling them, ever, so no problem...

out of interest tho: any1 with "real" technics can let us know if there is ANY sticker on the back or not? the sticker in question is black, and says made in japan by matsushita electrical co or something like that. do the correctly spelt stickers say made in japan, or somwhere else?

EDIT: googling "fake technics 1210s" brings up this thread as top result, followed by 4 pages of results NOT about fake 1210s, and then i gave up looking. so what did u find that i missed?

Microphones would be a lot easier to fake then a turntable I would think. I mean if they can fake a technics and have you believing it for a while I am thinking you could make some serious money going legit.

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