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Posted by DJ RANN on Jan-19-2007 14:38:

Which CDJ's?

I bought an old CDJ 500 (the big bugger) off ebay a while back to compliment my techs and now I need another deck.

I've only got a small budget about �150 and I'm wondering which I should go for:

CDJ 100 or CDJ 500s?

I'm happy with my 500 in terms of function but have seen a few reliability issues with the 100's.

Is there a difference in sound quality output between the two?

Is there decent resolution on the pitch of the 100?

Any help muchos appreciated.

Posted by WhooCares on Jan-19-2007 14:40:

ID SAY SAVE UP FOR TORQ OR GET A CDJ200

DONT KNOW THATS MY OPINION

Posted by SPAWNmaster on Jan-19-2007 17:04:

yea save up and get a cdj200 or cdj800

Posted by DJ RANN on Jan-19-2007 17:21:

Really don't want to spend more as I don't need onboard fx and I don't play MP3's (at least not without converting them to audio cd's first).

I just really need to know if the CDJ 100 breaks really easily and has decent enough resolution on the pitch fader.

Posted by Jarvmeister on Jan-19-2007 18:33:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ RANN
I just really need to know if the CDJ 100 breaks really easily and has decent enough resolution on the pitch fader.

It'll be sturdy enough - but the resolution is rubbish.

.1 resolution, compared to .02 on the CDJ200.

this equates to 5 times the accuracy.

Jarv

Posted by Glassball on Jan-20-2007 01:55:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ RANN
I just really need to know if the CDJ 100 breaks really easily and has decent enough resolution on the pitch fader.

A DJ once told me he dropped his CDJ 100 from waist height, picked it back up, and it worked fine. Waist hight is pretty damn high for something of that size/mass.

Posted by skip on Jan-20-2007 10:31:

i heard the cdj 500 has a stupid jog wheel that starts fast forwarding if you spin it too much (or something like that). it has looping though, doesn't it?
the cdj-100s' have the same pitch resolution as the cdj-500s 0,1%.
nothing wrong with the cdj-100s' though, compared to the cdj-500s. i have two myself but i've been thinking of maybe upgrading to a pair of cdj-200s' because of the pitch resolution.

Posted by DJ RANN on Jan-22-2007 13:47:

The jog wheel does fast forward (but only a bit) when you really spin it, but usually if you spin that hard it's gonna bugger the mix anyway.

The pitch resolution on the 500 is OK, but the nice thing about it is that if you push the pitch fader to between say 0.4 and 0.5 it will "flicker" between the two speeds. And the closer you push it towards a given value (say 0.5), it will flicker more often on that (0.5) and less often on 0.4 (if you get what I mean).