Hold onto your Technics! Pioneer PLX-1000 review and teardown

In a 30 minute Youtube review of the Pioneer PLX-1000, Dubai based techy James Field strips apart the turntable and benchmarks it against the tried and tested Technics SL-1200 and it doesn’t go well.

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