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Had a go on them, and gotta say, pretty good considering it's a Gemini.
You could see it as an improved PT2400. Pretty good torque (difficult to compare to Techies though, platter is lighter).
The sliders are like the other PT/SV/SA series. Pretty stiff, wether you like that, or you don't, it's a personal thing.
The LCD screen is still useless. I wouldn't use it, it just doesn't feel right...
The master tempo and key functions works pretty well, up to a certain extent. If you pitch pretty far, you'll get like a repeat effect (most MT on TT's have that), sounds like you are having trouble beatmatching 
I wouldn't use it either. I'm still the kinda guy that wants to line up his key's manually by pitch. But it can be used in creative ways.
Same thing for the pitch ranges. Mainly +/- 8%, all the rest for tricks.
Same goes for the brake/start adjust feature. I prefer to do it manually.
It's a decent table. You get what you pay. But I wouldn't change my Techs for them. In my eyes all those extra's are gimmicks. But some people will probably enjoy those.
Can't really tell anything about reliability though, cuz it's new. But knowing the PT series perform quite long, I guess this model will perform quite long also.
Also a very important thing I couldn't really test was the vibration absorption. The turntable feels quite heavy, but the platter is lighter than an SL one. Could be that under loud conditions, it would start to feedback. But as I said, couldn't test that.
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