Lets Talk about the torque on a turn table.

Alright folks, I've been giving these turntables a bit of a going over. Now then, this is a message to all the DJs out there and also to the company that made these Vestax. Now then, the reason I'm doing this video is simply this. A lot of people have said about these turntables that because the motor is so powerful you can't really speed it up in the middle because it doesn't do much. And then you can't really slow it down because you end up putting too much pressure on. And it goes all over the place. Now then, if you think about it, the SL series, everyone, because they're so used to that, because there isn't much torque, now very quickly what torque is, is this. It's the actual pressure. It's how powerful the motor is. Tell me if I'm right or wrong here, but these guys here have got about four and a half kg of torque kilograms. In other words, it's four and a half kilograms of pull. That's why they're so strong. Technics turntables.

Now then, apparently this company has got some sort of system with a bit of a pitch bend. Excuse me, but to me... And to all the DJs out there, that's not a hands-on. We like to touch this guy here. We like to touch the record. If you start having pitch bends and stuff like that, then you might as well have a CD player in there and forget about the vinyl because we like... The thing is, the beauty about vinyl, we like to touch the vinyl. That's the whole idea. It's putting your hands on it as opposed to in a CD player, OK? So the idea is this. A button. Maybe one, maybe two. The button here is for 4.5 kg of torque, so when you want it to start up quickly and slow down, you've got the power in the motor. But then you have another button here that reduces it by half. So what that means is the DJ then can put his finger on here, speed up and slow down. Basically meaning he's got more control on that piece of vinyl, which is what it's all about. All of you, thank you for watching and practice and enjoy.

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