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Snips uses a vinyl t table against CDJ800.

Gear review November 2008

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0:13 It's a Cam DDX5000 drip drive turntable

Someone left a comment earlier on, they said can we do like the difference between a CDJ and a vinyl turntable so Snips is still here and we thought yeah alright it's the first comment so we're going to do it anyway so Snips is over there. Alright mate! How's it going? Alright and we've got a CDJ and we've got a vinyl turntable that guy there is the 800 and that is a cam turntable What's the model number? It's a Cam DDX5000 drip drive turntable. That's right. Okay, we need to get model numbers sorted and what we'll do, I tell you what Snips, to be fair, we'll pause the camera, I will video you like in about 10 minutes while you're having a mess around and then I'll video you then afterwards, maybe 20 minutes later and you can give your sort of only opinion, yeah? Yeah. Alright, so pause the camera.

4:34 The difference I find with a platter, you can feel yourself slowing th

And in 10 minutes time we'll see him in the mix. Excuse me guys, I've got my mouth full. Right, thought Snips would like a longer go but what's the deal? What do you feel is the difference between one of those and one of those when you've got them together? Right, well, now that I'm used to this baby, not a lot believe it or not. Okay. But because I'm a vinyl junkie old school freak. The difference I find with a platter, you can feel yourself slowing that down. You can feel it, and you can feel it pushing yourself on. But with this, obviously, it's not going round, so you've got to manually push it on and slow it down. So for instance, if this is what you're used to, then you're going to find this difficult. But if this is what you're used to, you're going to find this difficult. Logical, yeah, okay.

I can feel what I'm doing here, hands on, I'm slowing that down. I can see and feel it, feel it and see it and hear it, slowing it down. Say for instance if I'm pushing it on. That, I'm not feeling it, I'm not seeing it, but I am hearing it. Yes. So just getting used to it is working. I know you said there are certain CDJs that the actual platter moves. Do you think that is a nice feature? It is, yes, definitely. Definitely a nice feature if you're used to vinyl. Thank you for watching.

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