I am fairly new to DJ'ing so please bear with me...

I am looking to buy some new gear and I would like to shop locally if possible, that way I can actually test them before I buy. The only thing even remotely interesting that I have found is the Tascam X-9 mixer and the Tascam CD-302 dual CD- player.

Has anyone any opinion/advice on this combination? I have done some online research and they seem ok to me. The local dealer is asking USD 1,100 for the X-9 and USD 700 for the CD-302. That seems a little steep to me. Also, when I was playing around with the X-9 at the dealer, the crossfader seemed a little "flimsy" and the other controls did not feel very soild either. (Maybe I just answered my own question, eh?)

This may seem like a stupid question, but do the CD-302 play CD/RW's?

I would appriciate your comments...

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Last edited by Barkmull on Sep-18-2002 at 14:52

If you want my advice, stay away from Tascam Dj gear. They had numerous probs with the CD302 (at start it went fine, but there are numerous reports of broken units after some time, and at one point they even f*cked up with their Eprom flashes).

Same goes for the X-9. Seems like one hell of a mixer on paper, but the build quality is just not good. Ok the eprom got flashed to a new version, which fixes the EQ delay problem, but numerous problems still exist (buttons get stuck, strange noises). I played with them and I can confirm...

There's been lots of threads going on on futureproducers.com telling about those problems. Some guys even tried to discuss the problems on the Tascam boards, and instead of researching it, Tascam admins just banned them. So you can understand that now, me and my fellow FP members aren't big fans of Tascam dj gear anymore (their pro audio stuff is another story, seems they thought to make money of the dj business but forgot ones reputation goes through reliability in that branch). I don't like to diss manufacturers, but there are some limits to fooling the end user...

If you want something similar, but with proven reliability I'd say go for Pioneer combo, DJM500/600 with CMX3000 or if money isn't really a prob, CDJ1000/800.

Thx DJ Thy,

I checked out the futureproducers.com site and found some good reads about the Tascam DJ gear. I think I will stay away from them for now.

I appreciate the input...

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