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Inertia
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Registered: Jul 2002
Location: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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 Jul-01-2003 21:08 
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Stasis
41º 42' N, 86º 10' W
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: New England
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OK, I can honestly say without total shame that I have personally owned 2 Gemini CDJ-20s for 2 years (and still do), so you can take my opinion on them seriously, unlike some who have never once touched them and who will just give you the default, "Gemini sucks, buy Pioneer" dogma.
It's been an odd relationship that I've had with my trusty little CD players. One of the CDJ-20's has worked without ANY problems for two years straight. Unlike turntables, which can work exactly how they're suppose to but still suck due to low torque or high wow and flutter, with CD players, basically they either work or they don't work. And one of my CDJ-20's has always, without exception, worked. It starts instantly, lets me set my cue point without any hassles, changes pitch easily, and plays retail CD's and CD-R's just fine.
Now the other CDJ-20 is a whole other story. About 4 months after getting it, it began to freeze without warning while playing CD's. I'd be right in the middle of recording a set, and *bam!* dead silence. It had a three year warranty, so I got on the phone with Gemini and asked that it be repaired. Sure enough, I mailed it out to them and six to eight weeks later I was shipped back my "repaired" CDJ-20. After about 20 minutes of playing on it, it froze up again. Needless to say, after putting off practicing on my own CD players for almost 2 months, I was less than happy. The next day I was on the phone with Gemini again and I requested that they replace my broken CD player instead of repairing it again. They agreed and off went the CDJ-20 into the US Postal service's arms. Aother six to eight weeks later, I received a refurbished CD-20. This one worked well for about a week, and for that one week, I genuinely thought my problems were over. After that one week, however, the refurbished CD player began to have the same problems as my old player. I was furious with Gemini and I couldn't believe that I hadn't DJed for nearly 4 months because of poorly made equipment and non-existent "repair" services. Finally, I called Gemini for the last time and demanded a brand new, non-refurbished, non-repaired, never been opened CDJ-20. I shipped out my broken CDJ-20 and six to eight weeks later, I recieved...nothing. I called Gemini and asked them, "Where is my new CDJ-20?" They claimed that I hadn't shipped them my broked CDJ-20, and that they needed to see a tracking number. After two months, most people would have probably lost the small piece of paper the post office gives you when you ship a package, leaving them with no evidence of their shipment, and basically no way to ever get Gemini to mail them the CD player. Quite respctable of Gemini to try to get out of ever shipping me a CDJ-20, no? Luckily for me, I did have the tracking number and I used the UPS website to see that, sure enough, my broken CDJ-20 arrived at Gemini headquarters and was signed for less than a week after I first mailed it out. I had called their bluff, so to speak, and about a month later I recieved a brand new CDJ-20. It's been a year and it's worked just as perfectly as the other that has worked fine for the past two years.
So can I recommend Gemini CDJ-20's? Well, not really. When they work, they work fine and all is well, but there's no guarantee at all that they will work well. You will certainly save money by getting the CDJ-20's, but you take a fairly real risk that you will get poorly made equipment. As much as I hate to admit it, I'd save up the extra money and get Pioneer CDJ-100's or even one of the much higher end Pioneer's or Denon's.
OK, I hope that helps your decision, sorry for giving you my life story, but I just wanted to be entirely honest.
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