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Here we go again...
Oh lordy. Like this hasn't been rehashed a million times before, but OK I'll bite...
| quote: | | no .1% resoltion like a CD deck.. |
Remember that this is only the resolution of the display, not the internal A/D converter on the CD Deck. If you were to be totally fair then you would say that the Technics turntable only has -8, -4, 0, 4 and 8% pitch, because they are the only numbers on the scale! Also, I defy you to be able to tell the difference betweeen a pitch scale that is quantised into 160 increments, and an analog pitch scale. *sigh*
| quote: | | I once saw a small CD mixer for something like $600 USD. |
You don't need a dedicated CD mixer, any analog mixer works just fine if you've got CD decks. The only reason you'd get a CD mixer is perhaps for remote start of songs, but that's a bit silly really.
There will always be that certain technophobe element, just as some people prefer guitars to electronic music. It never ceases to amuse me how people can love music that is completely created on an _electronic_, _quantised_ medium, with nothing recorded from the real world AT ALL, and yet still rave on about how the analog representation of that signal is somehow superior to the digital representation. Crikey people, work it out! The sound is created electronically, recorded electronically, and every time you make an analog copy of that signal you're degrading it. Once when you make the vinyl, and again when you play it. And that's not taking into account the way that the needle smooths out the high frequencies after a while. CD's have better sound quality, period. Yes, you can hear it.
There is however one advantage to vinyl that people don't talk about much -- most turntables are pretty much the same. If you go to a party or club with vinyl, you can be sure that the turntables there will behave pretty much the same as the ones at home. CD players have different cue mechanisms, different ways to select a track, different ways to rewind, loop and so on. But try doing these on vinyl:
* Buy a mix CD, put that on the left hand CD player, and mix your own stuff in with the right, stopping the mix CD and mixing it back in when your own song is about to finish.
* Find a cool sample in a track, and put that into another track, once per beat then twice per beat when close to the transition.
* Start a song without a big rrrrreeeewwworgh as the sound is smeared all over the place.
I say try both of them out, and go with whatever feels best. For bedroom DJ'ing you really can't go past CD's, they beat the stuffing out of vinyl. If you're really serious then you must learn vinyl but hey it's all about having fun, in the end :-)
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) in full force before going and buying a CD player. Plus vinyl seems to get a lot more releases (and sooner), even if it is more expensive to purchase.
