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Posted by pumavisor808 on May-27-2004 00:21:

Reivew of new Technincs CD Player

Allright I just got a chance to try out the new technics CD player @ Guitar center....

All I can say is.... WHAT A PIECE OF JUNK!!!! Has anyone else tried these yet??? IT really looks and feels like a toy...

The silver platter feels like a piece of paper. The buttons don't seem to be in very good positions at all... And the center screen is all but useless, you can barely read anything on it...
The torque of the motror seemed the same, but with heavy scratching it was nothing like my 1200's. The platter seemed to lag alot.

As for the sound quality, nothing that great at all.. The scratching sounds sort of like the denon's. No where near as good as the Pioneers.

And they're only charging $1199.00 for it!!!

For that price go get yourself 2 denon S3000s or 2 cdj 800's... Either blow these things away!!!

What a total dissapointment these things are....At least now I don't have to go out and waste $2400.00 on new CD palyers.


Posted by DR86 on May-27-2004 02:56:

damn.

these things looked so cool. disappointing to hear how much of a let-down they are.


Posted by tranceDJ on May-27-2004 03:15:

Those new Numark cd players look good (the ones with the vinyl on top)...there was a vid posted here a little while ago. Too bad the technics ones aren't good...I expected they would be great, I guess they just look good.


Posted by stevebutabi on May-27-2004 04:30:

quote:
these things looked so cool


ha yeah seriously they look so sick! i'll stick to my mk5's any day though


Posted by pumavisor808 on May-27-2004 11:28:

This is only my opinion.... To me they are a let-down... but someone else may love them....

Maybe I'm just used to certain things since I've used both the pioneer and denon decks alot.

You should at least try them and see if you like them before you make your own conclusions about the player.


Posted by Freak on May-27-2004 11:34:

I found the cdj1000s to be utter shite- maybe i will like the technics... who knows.


Posted by opianstate on May-28-2004 00:33:

I'd really like to hear a review on the Numarks, supposedly they are much better than the Techs in every deparment so far, according to what I've been reading on other forums. If anybody gives em a try, make sure to post your opinion here . . .


Posted by Ygrene on May-28-2004 01:17:

Re: Reivew of new Technincs CD Player

quote:
Originally posted by pumavisor808
All I can say is.... WHAT A PIECE OF JUNK!!!! Has anyone else tried these yet??? IT really looks and feels like a toy...


I must say, when I first saw this post a few days ago I was like "No way, those things look so sweet; He's got be exaggerating!"

Well, my hats off to you pumavisor because you hit the nail right on the head. I just got back from having a fiddle with them and I was completely shocked at the overall feel. The looks of the player are incredible but the touch of it.....bah.

I anxiously await the arrival of the Numark.


Posted by WeasiL on May-28-2004 20:56:

i recently bought a dz1200 after playing with it for awhile...indeed at first touch it wasnt what i expected...however after now using it almost every day for about 2 weeks i love it...plus i dont scratch...it just takes a bit to get used to the feel of the platter. there is a few improvements i wish they made, like make the slip platter a bit tighter and add a wave form display like the pioneers...but overall now that i settled into them im happy.


Posted by Dervish on May-29-2004 00:45:

I was looking on DJstore.co.uk and their review of it (rember it's a shop... ) seemed pretty honest.


quote:
Here it is - the long awaited CD player from Technics that made it's debut at PLASA at Earls Court last year - and was one of the highlights of the show - for one reason, and one reason only - because it says Technics and it's a CD player.

We're in two minds about this deck here at DJ Store - on the plus side, it's an interesting, highly specified CD player that's got a good feature set, and has taken some of the most interesting features of competitors CD players, such as the rotating platter, the on-board sampler and the use of SD cards, and done some interesting things with them - such as the ability to save the scratch you perform to the SD card, and recall it as required.
BUT - there really isn't anything new here - anything we have not seen before - and this really doesn't offer anything you can't get from a Pioneer or Denon CD player, thanks to the knowledge and experience that these two giants of CD manufacturer have gained over many years. It will sell, simply because it says Technics on it, but I doubt it will knock the Pioneer CDJ1000 MkII off the top spot when it comes to CD players.


Posted by 531.am on May-30-2004 02:51:

you also got to understand this is the first generation of their brand cd players. Wait till they come out with the next set, i'm sure they'll fix all the little problems like they did with the CDJ-1000.


Posted by Vlad on May-30-2004 04:29:

BEWARE: Technics DZ1200mkII


Posted by Wildfir3 on May-30-2004 19:11:

MOVIE

dunno if it's been posted, but seems interesting


Posted by _-MIl0 on May-31-2004 01:26:

that blows i thought it would be good thinking that tecs would only release quality stuff oh well guess i was wrong


Posted by tranceCDs on May-31-2004 02:49:

Its gonna take more then that to beat the CDJ1000MK2


Posted by BeatSMiTH on May-31-2004 05:47:

quote:
Originally posted by Wildfir3
MOVIE

dunno if it's been posted, but seems interesting


VERY conclusive video man


Posted by venomdx on May-31-2004 07:28:

quote:
Originally posted by Wildfir3
MOVIE

dunno if it's been posted, but seems interesting


thanks man

putting up with 3 mins of usher is worth it for saving $3500 AUD


Posted by opianstate on May-31-2004 08:46:

thats insane, i couldnt believe how badly the technics responded to the scratching . . . arent those supposed to emulate vinyl? anyway, I hope that Technics gets it together and figures out these problems in the future, at least theyre new in the market . . .


Posted by vhx1 on May-31-2004 09:46:

Monkey Dancer 2

I also had a chance to play around with these today. The feel was definitely not there. The response to scratching was horrible. Felt nothing like a real turntable. I admit the denons have a better feel


Posted by Nabistai on May-31-2004 10:02:

quote:
Originally posted by Wildfir3
MOVIE

dunno if it's been posted, but seems interesting


Damn it sucks


Posted by Wildfir3 on May-31-2004 10:37:

here's some more

new technics: http://www.pssl.com/NAMM_movies/DZ1200_High.mov

new numark: http://www.pssl.com/NAMM_movies/CDX_High.mov


Posted by subtledreamer on May-31-2004 23:01:

quote:
Originally posted by Wildfir3
here's some more

new technics: http://www.pssl.com/NAMM_movies/DZ1200_High.mov

new numark: http://www.pssl.com/NAMM_movies/CDX_High.mov


WOW... the numark looks pretty damn impressive!!
*disappointed with technics cd player as well, SIGH*



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