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Posted by muravei on Oct-12-2003 14:36:

Gemini XL-500II?

Does anyone have any experience with this turntable: Gemini XL-500II. Costs 132�. Is it good enough for mixing?

Posted by Flash Bastard on Oct-12-2003 15:22:

i have got those for 2.5 year now ... hmm there not technics offcourse but .. i'm somehow happy with it .. if you are going to start with dj�ng and don't wanna spend million of dollars .. then i would buy them

Posted by djlemeir on Oct-12-2003 16:52:

same here
there simple cost effective decks

Posted by conk on Oct-13-2003 03:05:

I have 2 and I'm soon going to be selling them for Techs. They're not horrible but I got them 2nd hand and the guy did a a lot of scratching on them so theres very little torque left and well, they just dont hold a beat as well as they should....save for techs

Posted by DannyO on Oct-13-2003 03:36:

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Originally posted by conk
I have 2 and I'm soon going to be selling them for Techs. They're not horrible but I got them 2nd hand and the guy did a a lot of scratching on them so theres very little torque left and well, they just dont hold a beat as well as they should....save for techs

Same here, there dieing, so I'm gonna get Techs soon

Posted by CrackedLcd on Oct-13-2003 05:24:

I've used these a lot. They are good tables for the price, but if you can save get the 2400's or 2410's.

Posted by muravei on Oct-13-2003 17:05:

No problems with holding beat and so on? Anything really crap about them? The price is good indeed for dd...too good?

Posted by Tiger777 on Oct-13-2003 19:11:

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Originally posted by dj_inferno
I've used these a lot. They are good tables for the price, but if you can save get the 2400's or 2410's.

Those 2400's are very decent. But, the problem is, they were too decent for gemini. They don't make them anymore. Since they launched the PDT6000, they wanna increase the PDT6000 so they canceled the PT2100 and the PT2400. But, you can still buy them used ofcource.

Posted by Fast Turtle on Oct-13-2003 19:23:

I had PT1000's, they were awful, very problematic with mixing...go for techics.

Posted by muravei on Oct-13-2003 20:23:

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Originally posted by DJ Nuclear
I had PT1000's, they were awful, very problematic with mixing

Mhh...this doesn't give me any optimism. Don't think there's anything better for that money.

Posted by Fast Turtle on Oct-14-2003 00:53:

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Originally posted by muravei
Mhh...this doesn't give me any optimism. Don't think there's anything better for that money.

If you're not sure whether or not you're going to do this long term, go with CD players. You'll save yourself a ton of cost on vinyl if you decide it's not for you later. If not, you can still buy some turntables later and you'll be fairly good at beatmatching by then.

Nowadays CD DJing is fairly standard too, do you'll probably end up getting them later too...

Posted by muravei on Oct-14-2003 11:04:

No no no...no cd's...vinyl are the real things.

Posted by T:REBEL on Oct-14-2003 16:12:

These decks aren't so bad. I owned a pair of these before and would recommend them to anybody who is aspiring and on a budget. Besides, it has a simple layout. Nothing fancy like the PDTs, 'cuz when that stuff breaks down you're going to end up with more than what you bargained for.

But like I keep saying, eventually you're going to upgrade to the TECHs later on.