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See the one below, for instance. Thank you. Mark J Burning Tape. They are good turntables and many love them. Many hate them, too. Any that have been DJed would need careful evaluation prior to purchase as they may need all sorts of parts, motor, tonearm, dust cover, hinges, headshells and such. Cassetteboy86 Serious Tapehead. Technics DD turntables were actually made for listening in living room not for DJ-ing in the club.
Just because they were so robust made, they became popular on the DJ scene. So yes, they are very apropriate for listening at home.
In a word, YES. The arm is considerably more from under a grand used to about MSRP. A word on accuracy and silence. The outboard power supply while not necessary next to the arm is the biggest step up on a SLxx. I could never find anything wrong with the factory supply and transformer position especially using a Moving Coil cart, which picks up far less EM noise and transformer hum. Still the outboard supply is best described as giving the back ground an 'inky' blackness, that of a black hole actually.
Which leaves the spindle bearing. While very hearty in design and build, these get noisy when used heavily in DJ work, scratching and so forth. No other company today could undertake such a task and come away with the success the SLXX enjoys.
