Which holds the pitch longest?
Technics 1200 TT or Pioneer/Denon CDJ?

cdj's, cd decks don't have wow&flutter effect.

but cdjs dont have analogue pitch, so its near impossible to match perfectly in the first place.
with a turntable using analogue pitch control its theoretically possible to have it matched infinitely

a cdj will hold the pitch for ever.. well, at least the legth of the track, perfectly. this is of course, unless you are using tracks you have ripped from vinyl.

this is down to the fact that it doesnt use a motor to turn anything, it is reading digital data which has no variant in the pitch. all motors will have a variant (as postman pointed out), even in a 1210 or a pdx2000, although its hardly noticable.

the fact that a cd deck only has pitch steps of 0.1%, or 0.05% or whatever has no relevence to this question.. even if it had pitch steps of 5%, it would still hold it at exactly the same speed for the length of the track

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in theory cds will hold the pitch better. When beatmixing you only get incremental steps w/ the cd player's pitch fader while on the sl-1200's fader the resistance changes.

I find it much easier to keep tracks locked if it's vinyl. The only time it works better w/ cds is if your doing phrasing w/ 2 of the same songs on each player or if your using a cd deck that has "bpm sync" so you wouldn't adjust the pitch yourself, like the cmx-3000 but thats cheating and if your mixing something like d&b it rarely works.

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Originally posted by Koolaid If cd players don't have a motor...what's spinning the cd?

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