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Originally posted by blacknoizybox who said Stanton = turd? can you prove that? have you used them enough to make such a statement? what particular TT of Stanton have you used and what makes them a turd

actually, i have a stanton belt drive turntable w/a straight arm. there are a lot of records that i can not play w/this TT. the arm will just skip, and act like if playing a broken record. yet the same record plays thru just fine on the other gemini "S" arm i have. they play fine on the M5G's i'm using right now.

also, the comment you quoted was about shit dj's needing bells and whistles on turntables, and mixers to try to fool themselves and others that they are actually good. give a shit dj a TT w/200kg's of torque, give him a TT w/+/-50% pitch control, give him a flanger, "colors", or "filters"... a shit dj, is just that, a shit dj.

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I think we were talking about the ST-150's, not their crappy belt drive models... compare apples to apples.

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Originally posted by sr126 actually, i have a stanton belt drive turntable w/a straight arm. there are a lot of records that i can not play w/this TT. the arm will just skip, and act like if playing a broken record. yet the same record plays thru just fine on the other gemini "S" arm i have. they play fine on the M5G's i'm using right now. also, the comment you quoted was about shit dj's needing bells and whistles on turntables, and mixers to try to fool themselves and others that they are actually good. give a shit dj a TT w/200kg's of torque, give him a TT w/+/-50% pitch control, give him a flanger, "colors", or "filters"... a shit dj, is just that, a shit dj.

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Originally posted by sr126 actually, i have a stanton belt drive turntable w/a straight arm.

doesnt actually concern the discussion because a f$cking belt-drive Stanton is not a direct competitor to Technics 1200, neither is the mention of the straight tonearm. i'm pretty sure that all belt-driven TTs suck hard but have you had the experience of playing on a Stanton ST.150/T.120C.. believe me THEY ARE AMAZING and mixing with them is a breeze!!!

so what? i had stanton directs, and numark directs... both brands i used had the same problem w/not being able to play certain records. i had to return them. i think the longest i had these tt's were probably a week. then bought the m5g's. -problem solved.

i find it hard to belive that i got some 3-4 lemons in row from guitar center.

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Or you didn't setup the tables correctly...

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Originally posted by sr126 so what? i had stanton directs, and numark directs... both brands i used had the same problem w/not being able to play certain records. i had to return them. i think the longest i had these tt's were probably a week. then bought the m5g's. -problem solved. i find it hard to belive that i got some 3-4 lemons in row from guitar center.

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Originally posted by Ryan0751 Or you didn't setup the tables correctly...

yeah... every TT i have used from 1994-2005 worked great... then i totally forgot how to do it, set all of these wrong... then when i bought the m5g's in the summer of 2005 i finally rememebered how to set up turntables again.

that sounds about right.

also, the records that were un playable all skipped in the same place on ever single TT, like clockwork. yet, the gemini, and techs play them just fine. maybe one or two of them i was able to get a "problem" record to play all the way thru with a loud pop w/some rediculus setting, like a pound of wieght on the cart... but that's not how i want to treat my records, nor do i want to mess w/the tonearm/cart settings every time i change a record.

remember, i didn't say all my records skip... just a good portion of them. enough to make me alter sets to the point where i can have a "problem" record land on the gemini, instead of the stanton/numark TT by adding or not playing songs i was originally planning to play.

but now i have techs, so i don't care anymore.

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unable to play certain vinyl...lol

say whatever you like

Yeah man, I very highly doubt that has anything to do with Stanton/Technics. Irrelevant entirely IMO

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