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Originally posted by nrjizer What to do?

Go CD. The best decision you'll ever make.

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Originally posted by rabbitjoker Go CD. The best decision you'll ever make.

Although I don't own CDJs yet...I have to agree. I've said this a lot on this forum, but I bought 140 records this past two years, at least 10 of them are warped or pretty much worn out due to playing, dust etc. Others are one there way, even though they are kept in locked metal cases, they still collect dust. I could have owned approximately 1,000 MP3s of the songs I liked if AudioJelly was around two years ago when I first got my TTs. Vinyl doesn't last forever, but a CD should last a long time.

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Originally posted by Spirit5 ...there aren't many records stores that sell prog and trance in the Detroit area)

wtf, melody's and memories on gratiot pwned when I was there.




and dont even think about it, sell the two decks and get another 1000. You clearly cannot afford to keep up on vinyl the way you can with digital tracks, so why cripple yourself.


i have the same setup (2 turntables and one cdj) and it blows. I hate going back and forth, you get sick of having so many cool tracks on cd and not so many cool ones on vinyl. Soon though I will have another cdj and all will be good. Luckily I don't have to sacrafice my tables


good luck with it all.

This is why I always tell people not to buy turntables if they can't afford paying for black crack. Go with the CDJs.

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True, but situations change. I have a full crate of records that I acquired in about 6 months last year.

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Why not ditch one TT and get one more CDJ?
Then you've got the best of both.
Can still play your records and get records of stuff you can't find on legal MP3.

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Originally posted by nrjizer True, but situations change. I have a full crate of records that I acquired in about 6 months last year.

i´m in the same situation, i haven´t bought a record for the past 2 years perhaps, when i ran out of money for vinyls i sold a couple of things and bought a dual denon cd player (2100f), and let me tell you, after spinning with vinyl trying to mix with cds will be really boring!
until now i haven´t realised that, but i haven´t used the cd player for a while so i will sell it and get final scratch or something, and if that doesn´t work then i´ll wait whatever it takes until i can afford new vinyl again...
if you want to use cds and vinyl that´s cool but please don´t sell your beloved techs!
just a personal opinion, other people prefer cds, mp3s,etc... choose what you really like, djing it´s a hobby for me and with cds all the fun was gone...
peace

What I would suggest for anyone is to get CDJs and one turntable as some people have noted. This is something I will probably do next year (get a turntable) so that I can still play records and record them onto my computer, but in the meantime I think the CDJs would be great. It doesn't seem boring to me, maybe to other people, I mean I don't own them yet but in my opinion I will be able to do more with them than I could with my turntables, and I am all about creativity so the more creative I can get, the better. Not saying you can't be creative with turntables, but it just seems like you have more at your disposel with CDJs.

I have the same setup (2 x mk2 + 1 cdj 700S) , personally I am still a fan of my records and will always buy some, even if its one, there is nothing like vinyl. But some of the tracks I can agree that I get tired of, but recently I began selling some records ebay and to my surprise, i sold 9/10 literally, and to give you an idea of what they were "castles in the sky" so i guess whats trash to someone is treasure for someone else. Sell those old records and work up for new ones

Regardless of what you do, if you dont like some of your old tunes you should sell them on ebay or even on the TA forums and buy some new records that you actually like.

I must say I'm a lot more attached to my records than I am to my turntables. You can always buy a turntable later, you may never again be able to find some of your records though.
I'd say try to sit tight for a while though and see if you can save for any cdj you can. If you buy only mp3's for a while, you can still play new tracks, but hopefully put the savings from not buying records towards a new cdj.

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Originally posted by Ryan0751 Would you sell your children? Didn't think so If you can't swing another CDJ-1000, how about a less expensive deck like the CDJ-200? Then you can start downloading fresh music from places like beatport or djdownloads and start fresh.

Yes..you could,black market biotch. But could you buy them back....probably not.


now can you sell your tech's? yes, and could you buy them back, yes.


Children adn Electronics have are a different element of love If you need the cash go for it, and if there is a budget rise then get one back on ebay. i use 2 cdj's and a TT. that TT is enough for me so far, until i get a budget rise ill get another.