yea, you ain't gonna find dust covers for the numarks, that tech looks in great condition, you should go for it if the price stays low, and don't bother on the CD player, I've heard bad things about that CD player, just use a portable cd player and play a cd into one side of a mixer and then mix in with a record on your deck when you get one, and save up for another turntable or a high quality cdj.

so far i like your advice and i think i will buy either technics 1200mk2 or stanton st8-80+520. also should i get final scratch as opposed to a cd player. Also does final scratch not allow me to use my computer again. so can i have my music i have in my computer and all my files stay the same and still have final scratch i read the instruction manual and it said something about creating a partition in a fat32 format. But my hardive is nfsd(sp?)so what do i do. Is there something that is like final scratch. someone on these forums has RANE Serato Scratch Live v1.1.3, whats that about?

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Oh man, I hate to tell you but, I don't know a single thing about Final Scratch. I haven't started looking in that direction yet but I know that it is becoming more and more popular with djs since you can essentially create an archive of your vinyl that will never wear out when you play it. For me, if it came down to a choice between cd player and FS, I think I would choose cd player but I can't give you any reason why, i'm just going on feel.

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Originally posted by spdandpwr so far i like your advice and i think i will buy either technics 1200mk2 or stanton st8-80+520. also should i get final scratch as opposed to a cd player. Also does final scratch not allow me to use my computer again. so can i have my music i have in my computer and all my files stay the same and still have final scratch i read the instruction manual and it said something about creating a partition in a fat32 format. But my hardive is nfsd(sp?)so what do i do. Is there something that is like final scratch. someone on these forums has RANE Serato Scratch Live v1.1.3, whats that about?

Well it really depends, if your after just playing tracks, then I would go for the software solution, CDJs are great and if you got a CDJ1000 you would have a killer CD deck that is used in most clubs, I'm prolly gonna get a CDJ soon, but mainly for playing samples and making loops, if I was just gonna be playing tracks back and forth then I would go for something like FS.

So about FS, well its an awesome application...when it works, it has many compatibility problems, and the sound isn't to great because of the cheap scratch amp, if you want to go into this direction, look into Rane SSL, or hold off since there is alot of competition coming out, so you might be able to get a better product for cheap.

About what it will do with your computer, the old FS system used to have you install a second operating system that had the FS software on board, you could still use your pc like normal, you would just have to select to boot into windows, but that has changed since FS V1.5, now it is a windows app and you can have your computer completely normal, this is the same with the rest of the different Vinyl Emulation products that are coming out, they all run on windows now, so you got nothign to worry about, its pretty much as simple as installing MS office, but with abit of hardware setup.

Hope this helps, if you have anymore questions, be sure to shoot them this way.

So what your saying is for me to basically wait off and then buy a final scratch type of app when they become more popular, cheaper, and better sounding. this means i should skip buying cd players and go straight for turntables. I was thinking of buying cd players and having turntables but final cratch based programs would defeat that. now i just have to wait for turntables. thanks for your help. Does anyone have any suggestions for turntables. High torque and good for scratching

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Yea basically, you can use these apps on CDJs aswell, but for what you seem to want, 2 turntables and a FS type app would be the best I think.

As for choice of turntables, you really can't go wrong with second hand Techs (doesn't matter on model), TTX, TT500, Str8-100 and Str-150, and Vestax decks, there all good at mixing and scratching.

I now am positive that i will save up and buy to technics sl-1200mk2's for 399 a pop. the only thing i need now are headphones and vinyl.

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i was looking at turntables again and i saw that stanton offers the st-100 and the str8-100 now i want to know what are the differences besides the obivious being the tone-arm shapes. also what cartridge would you guys reccommend for it. A cartridge thats easy to scratch with and has good sound quality.

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