i have these stanton decks.
firstly what is with that irritating grinding noise when you holda record still or rewind it onthe platter??????
also the features:
2.key correction- cannot find arecord that this has ANY effect on at all. whhats the point it does nothing
3. who has ever used the reverse. ever.
4. 78 speed will never be used by human beings.its pointless
5. the pitch on/off switch "enables high speed mixing a the touch of a button". i have never pressed it. what , on earth, can it doto your mixing skills to turnoff the pitch fader on your turntable

this is just my opinion obv but id like to know yourviews on these points. perhaps youcan prove me wrong.

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Why oh why did you buy these decks when u hate them and everything about them?
That's just plain stupid.

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Originally posted by dan_Saviola i have these stanton decks. firstly what is with that irritating grinding noise when you holda record still or rewind it onthe platter?????? also the features: 2.key correction- cannot find arecord that this has ANY effect on at all. whhats the point it does nothing 3. who has ever used the reverse. ever. 4. 78 speed will never be used by human beings.its pointless 5. the pitch on/off switch "enables high speed mixing a the touch of a button". i have never pressed it. what , on earth, can it doto your mixing skills to turnoff the pitch fader on your turntable this is just my opinion obv but id like to know yourviews on these points. perhaps youcan prove me wrong.

1. are you using proper slipmats? i wouldn't exactly know, but i hear those rubber ones on techs cause this. dunno if it's the same case with str8-150s. perhaps a use of some plastic bag for better slippage is in order?
2. a feature no one has mastered. only proper key correction/master tempo i've seen are on Pioneer CDJ decks. it's supposed to let you play a record at any speed you want, and you won't get the actual pitch (how HIGH or LOW it sounds) mucked with, only the speed. in other words, you can play a record at +100% and you won't hear the chipmunks, you'll hear the exact same track, only 100% faster.
3. reverse is used by turntablists, for cutting and sampling sometimes. also, i've seen techno jocks play with it. it can be pretty neat to experiment with.
4. bah, maybe they just put it in to cater to people with old ass records. although, if the key correction worked, this could be used to mess with slow records.
5. sounds like something a shitty CD decks would have. haha.

but again, if you find it this crappy, why'd you buy it?

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Originally posted by dan_Saviola i have these stanton decks. firstly what is with that irritating grinding noise when you holda record still or rewind it onthe platter?????? also the features: 2.key correction- cannot find arecord that this has ANY effect on at all. whhats the point it does nothing 3. who has ever used the reverse. ever. 4. 78 speed will never be used by human beings.its pointless 5. the pitch on/off switch "enables high speed mixing a the touch of a button". i have never pressed it. what , on earth, can it doto your mixing skills to turnoff the pitch fader on your turntable this is just my opinion obv but id like to know yourviews on these points. perhaps youcan prove me wrong.

1. That sounds more like a problem w/ the slipmats. If i remember stanton stock slipmats, that would probably be the problem.

2. No vinyl turntable has this feature dialed in, and i doubt it would ever happen b/c every turntable will waver, every cartridge will be different, and you are doing nothing more than making analog act digital. Just bad

3. A really good dj that i've seen used reverse was when frankie bones spun here in denver years ago. He, however, used a standard sl-1200 w/ the old-school duct-tape roll trick to make it work.

4. 78rpm is nice if you have records circa 1900s, but if you do find 78s you will need to get a larger grove stylus for the 78s.

5. As explained before. Just a pitch reset button.


Yeah, a couple of years ago i was in your same shoes, but with the previous sl-1200 killer. The stanton str8-100. I finally got rid of it once it's pitch control fader died. I just simply had enough of it's crap. My advice, sell the str8-150 before it drops in value b/c once it drops, your not gonna get crap for it. In my case, when i bought the str8-100, they were going for $499 but lucky me i got it for $300, while the sl-1200m3d was $450 new. After two and a half years, i was only able to get $150, and i had to throw in a rm-3s mixer along w/ it.

Sell it fast b/c stanton decks drop in value like a new Daewoo. (btw, never buy one, i got a friend who's grandma got screwed by owing ~$10,000 for a car that has a blue book of $2700. And it only has 7000mi!)

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and yet:
"Without a doubt the premier turntable on the market today. Totally flawless, streets ahead of the rest in terms of performance and features, many inside the industry are saying that this is the turntable the mk5g should have been. With the world's strongest torque engine, extremely high precision key lock which has totally revolutionised high-speed mixing, 50% pitch range, 33, 45 and 78rpm, digital and analogue capabilities, reverse play and a straight tone arm which cuts down on angular distortion and gives off supreme sound levels from within the groove. Becoming the new industry standard based on both performance and word of mouth."

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Originally posted by dan_Saviola i have these stanton decks. firstly what is with that irritating grinding noise when you holda record still or rewind it onthe platter?????? also the features: 2.key correction- cannot find arecord that this has ANY effect on at all. whhats the point it does nothing 3. who has ever used the reverse. ever. 4. 78 speed will never be used by human beings.its pointless 5. the pitch on/off switch "enables high speed mixing a the touch of a button". i have never pressed it. what , on earth, can it doto your mixing skills to turnoff the pitch fader on your turntable this is just my opinion obv but id like to know yourviews on these points. perhaps youcan prove me wrong.

i think everyone has covered everything, except the money you saved

if you ignore those features that you never use, its still a fucking good deck.

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Try doing this on your technics, Click on the link below, then click media in the top right, then click 'fluteline'. http://www.woodwurk.com I WAY rate these decks over technics and owned technics for 9 years before. The motor design ran out for technics so Stanton bought it out, beefed it up and opened No end the turntable possibilities. Every one else just blends and chops, I do this and a hell of a lot more because the deck I'm on enables me to.Cheers,Dan Warb

i read that the wow and flutter on these ridiculous stanton decks is really bad..

who the hell needs all that torque????? trance isnt about scratching and even if it was then the techs have more than enough torque..

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i use the reverse on my stantons that i fool around with a lot when i mix breakz, but never with trance

i paid $150 for my stantons new, and theyre still worth about that


go wholesale!

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Originally posted by richg101 i read that the wow and flutter on these ridiculous stanton decks is really bad.. who the hell needs all that torque????? trance isnt about scratching and even if it was then the techs have more than enough torque..

The wow and flutter your talking about between the technics and the str8 150's is around 0.02 percent, and believe me their abso nothing in it and it's not noticeable in any way what so ever. The extra torque is useful for being able to do things like scrtaching a beat in back and forth as you slowly bring the volume up with the other hand then when it reaches the desired level you can on the final bounce launch this record by letting go, on the tech's it was still easy to do this but with the extra torque it's even easier. The reverse in Trance is absolutly amazing, you get to a big deep break down and when it gets half way through you drop a record in on the other deck in reverse quietly in the break down then hit echo on your mixer and cut out the reversing record so you hear the reversed beats fade away in the back round, then cut in one or two more reversed beats with echo then finally launch it in again nice and loud to emphasize the drum role, at this point hit a filter of sorts as you fade out the breakdown while slowly killin ghte base on the reverse beats so that you get a distant 'hi end set of beats in reverse (this makes the breakdown so intense before it drops back in) then finally turn down the filter as bring bach in to full volume the breakdown record and the intesity goes throught the roof then bang . . . bang . . . bang kill the reverse, four dead beats and then bosh the breakdown ends and were steaming in again. The only people I have encountered finding extra features on a deck useless are uncreative Dj's into just blending, seriously the possibilities of extra deck features are endlesss in every genre and it's us tricksters that are keeping vynil alive other wise we might as well stick an Mp3 or a Cd on and stand at the bar. Cheers Dan Warb