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Vestax Guber CM-02 USB Turntable Really Something

skierpage — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:16:17 EDT

A DJ turntable for scratching and a turntable for digitizing your record collection have pretty different requirements.

The current gold standard for digitizing vinyl is a high-end turntable-arm-cartridge->phono stage plugged into a Korg DSD recorder, with each LP first run through a vacuum record cleaner. I wonder if there are traders of the resulting files. Why bother digitizing your own vinyl collection if someone else has done a better job?

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Vestax Guber CM-02 USB Turntable Really Something

entropyman — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:26:58 EDT

it has to be a pain to scratch on since the glass platter adds weight- too much resistance

entropyman

Vestax Guber CM-02 USB Turntable Really Something

deusdiabolus — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:38:34 EDT

I'm going to violate my cardinal law (assume nothing) and presume that the platter is actually glass and the screws are countersunk. Either that or this comes with a mat of some sort. There's no way they would make this thing with a plastic platter and round head screws poking out of its surface...would they?

Aside from that...I wonder how much the overhanging platter would throw off skratching. Pssssh, no one's buyin' this for skratching.

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Vestax Guber CM-02 USB Turntable Really Something

Way — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:13:37 EDT

Excellent translation or the source article.
"Perhaps it boom," indeed.

Way

Vestax Guber CM-02 USB Turntable Really Something

riqgeez — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:02:27 EDT

Its not a real Dj turntable unless it has direct drive and not belt drive. Can't really tell from the photo but it almost looks like it has a gear to drive the turntable. Wonder how it would hold up in the club mixing JZ's American Ganster?

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Vestax Guber CM-02 USB Turntable Really Something

Daimyo Nintendo — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:38:22 EDT

Very cool, I still buy vinyl when I can find it. Digital music is great but there is something about that crackling and distortion that only analog can produce, I love it.

"analog reel and a little distortion, scorchcin so hot you can say I'm smokin."

Daimyo Nintendo

Vestax Guber CM-02 USB Turntable Really Something

monkeybars — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:30:44 EDT

Why do no new record players have dust covers? I'm glad my parents' old Fisher still works.

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Vestax Guber CM-02 USB Turntable Really Something

Sora57 — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:24:05 EDT

I bought a turntable about 3 years ago with pitch control (the strobe light thingy). Then my old receiver died and needed to replace it-- but nothing now has a phono input, so I bought a separate phono amp to pass it to my sound system. The amp also had a PC audio output for ripping. Pretty cool. Still works great.

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Vestax Guber CM-02 USB Turntable Really Something

djTA630 — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:51:45 EDT

Weird. Is that pitch control a dial? 'Haven't seen a dial pitch control on a turntable since the early 90's...

Crazy Google translate on the link. :)

djTA630