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You'll live as long as I let you
You owe me your life
You'll die the minute
I give the order to dead you
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| Originally posted by Vero i've said it before and i'll say it again. look at all the different formats that vinyl has survived. vinyl will probably never truly die. records will be here with 4 cockroaches after the apocalypse. |
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| Originally posted by nchs09 the shits melt in my car but not after the apocalypse?!?!??! |
As far as CDJ goes i dont see it dying anytime soon. Will all this new digital CD space technology coming out with normal CD-R's getting over a gig of space it'll be more convenient fitting music on a cd platform.
every single product has its life cycle, and as the market reaches its maturity stage, its bound to hit the sales decline stage hence the product reaches its final and last stage that�s when most of the manufactures decide to drop the product simply because they don't find it profitable
its inevitable, now the question is when
Personally I see this totally as a matter of personal choice. I absolutely love vinyl and have done for many years, I started collecting it at 13 years old when I started getting my own money. It's the best thing ever to enjoy mixing with. But it's so damn expensive now..as a student I can maybe afford to get a new package of vinyl every 4-5 months, 12 records sets me back about �80-100/$150USDish.
Mp3s make it so I can buy enough tunes to do a few mixes every month and I don't have to waste another $20 on S&H. Every batch of records that I buy always seems to have at least one defect that skips on the deck everytime in the same place...renders that track useless, very disappointing if it's the one I really wanted! But this is the nature of the beast.
At the end of the day, if you're having a great time listening to or mixing with a particular style of music that you really enjoy, who cares about the medium honestly?
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| Originally posted by scribbz Personally I see this totally as a matter of personal choice. I absolutely love vinyl and have done for many years, I started collecting it at 13 years old when I started getting my own money. It's the best thing ever to enjoy mixing with. But it's so damn expensive now..as a student I can maybe afford to get a new package of vinyl every 4-5 months, 12 records sets me back about �80-100/$150USDish. Mp3s make it so I can buy enough tunes to do a few mixes every month and I don't have to waste another $20 on S&H. Every batch of records that I buy always seems to have at least one defect that skips on the deck everytime in the same place...renders that track useless, very disappointing if it's the one I really wanted! But this is the nature of the beast. At the end of the day, if you're having a great time listening to or mixing with a particular style of music that you really enjoy, who cares about the medium honestly? |
Sadly the last remaining record store here in Boston is closing it's doors. They are hoping to move to a new space, but there are no promises 
Kind of sad. I'm thinking of picking up something like Serato or the new M-audio Torq thing just to get more use out of my 1200's (even though I have cdj-1000's).
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| Originally posted by dark _entity +1 |
if I wouldn't play with vinyl my collection would be completely different and would be a lot more commercial, in the underground scene vinyl will never die
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| Originally posted by DJ_Progrezz if I wouldn't play with vinyl my collection would be completely different and would be a lot more commercial, in the underground scene vinyl will never die |
as soon as they realise that form of medium isn't profitable for them
The day I cant get any new releases on vinyl I'll be majorly pissed off. I will never stop spinnin the recs. I just love the sound and the feel. AND from the dancers perspective its fun to watch the DJ put the records on and watch them spin around and try to see what track it is.
I just played at a gathering over the weekend where most the DJs were spinnin CDs. Then when I went at the end of the night people noticed I was spinning records and came over to the turn tables to watch (like its been too long since they've seen this stuff or something).
If the music stops so does my heart. If vinyl dies then so do I.
As long as I'm alive I'll still spin the recs. If CDs take over as the only form to purchase new releases then I might just have to spin both but I'll still be super pissed off.
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| Originally posted by chrisxanthus If CDs take over as the only form to purchase new releases then I might just have to spin both but I'll still be super pissed off. |
at times i feel like some of you guys are hard-headed, but its all good to each its own, some people don't mind dragging heavy crates just so that they can play on their favorite medium, others prefer cds or ssl to each its own
There will always be a Vinyl market, I hope. But regardless, I hope it does die out, so I and the other few can be the rare exception that plays these weird sick machines that spins some black floppy disc and with style and art the two songs magically blend, and the DJ always looks so busy while still connecting with the crowd.
Playing turntables is playing turntables, it�s a musical instrument. And some abelton kid will have no idea how to do what he just did on an apple computer and do the same on two machines and a mixer. And they are not DJ�s either. They are guys who use a computer program to mix two songs or to create a live or produced remix using the effects, etc, so whatever that will be called that�s what they are.
Regarding CDJs, They are still not vinyl DJs. Maybe if you spin psy then CD's would be best to get the music, but nothing beats spinning vinyl. Thats what a DJ is. If you look at Hip Hop, its very clear that you need TT's, CDJs are rediculous. And when you look at Turntablism and scratching, well its self explanitory as well, Vinyl is the only way to go. For electronica, most of the time the listener is not interested in TT's, so its a diff story. But a DJ is a DJ.
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| Originally posted by Sevencyrus And some abelton kid will have no idea how to do what he just did on an apple computer and do the same on two machines and a mixer. And they are not DJ�s either. Regarding CDJs, They are still not vinyl DJs. Maybe if you spin psy then CD's would be best to get the music, but nothing beats spinning vinyl. Thats what a DJ is. ...But a DJ is a DJ. |
if you dont spin cd's or on ableton etc then you are spinning yesterdays records - no matter how new the vinyl is, the big jocks will have the tracks months before you do. simple as that. all vinyl is good for is to play a certain track you have that you cant get on wav download yet...
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| Originally posted by Sevencyrus If you look at Hip Hop, its very clear that you need TT's, CDJs are rediculous. And when you look at Turntablism and scratching, well its self explanitory as well, Vinyl is the only way to go. For electronica, most of the time the listener is not interested in TT's, so its a diff story. But a DJ is a DJ. |
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| Originally posted by richg101 on wav download yet... |
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| Originally posted by DOOMBOT Who cares. Play what you like. |
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| Originally posted by m2j +1 well put. but in all honesty its sadly on its way out, yet the look and feel of vinyl will live forever through stuff like Final Scratch and so on. |
I'm looking to buy Techs. I love the idea of vinyl and I have the money to support the idea. I'm just hoping the lack in popularity of vinyl drives down the price a notch.
/pray 
unnecessary thread necromancy.
Yeah i think vinyl will die down eventually but not completely. You can do so much with today's technologies why limit yourself.
just remember DJ's are there to make the crowd dance, how or what they use to do it is entirely up to them.
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Right, I've just bashed all the appropriate values into one of these life expectancy calculators on the net, using:
* aged 59 (as it was invented in 1948)
* height of 12"
* weight of 1 pound
* no education
* consumes less than one drink a day but drinks more than 'never' as the occasional pint gets spilled
* doesn't eat any fresh fruit or veg
etc
and it came up with a life expectancy of...
59.47 years, which means it'll die this coming summer.
Interestingly, one of the questions asked how far it travels in a car each year... I put 1000 miles (it had to be in round thousands and it's definitely not 0), however of course for top-flight DJs that could be quite a bit more, which is why for them vinyl has already died.
LOL
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| Originally posted by Stu Cox **THE OFFICIAL ANSWER** Right, I've just bashed all the appropriate values into one of these life expectancy calculators on the net, using: * aged 59 (as it was invented in 1948) * height of 12" * weight of 1 pound * no education * consumes less than one drink a day but drinks more than 'never' as the occasional pint gets spilled * doesn't eat any fresh fruit or veg etc and it came up with a life expectancy of... 59.47 years, which means it'll die this coming summer. Interestingly, one of the questions asked how far it travels in a car each year... I put 1000 miles (it had to be in round thousands and it's definitely not 0), however of course for top-flight DJs that could be quite a bit more, which is why for them vinyl has already died. |
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