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Jester Records
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Posted : Feb 9, 2009 15:44
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yeah, the first time i played on the 200's i felt the extreme lag in the jog wheel.. it was over sensitive and always made me mess-up a tight mix. i haven't played with the 400's yet but i can see that they've adapted the ball-berring jobwheel much like in the 800's and the 1000's.
the only negative i heard regarding the 400's was in regards to the USB compatibility and that i was slower to load stuff from the USB sticks but i think that Pioneer has updated the firmware since.. 
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razzz_
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Posted : Feb 9, 2009 16:44
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Dennis the menace
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Posted : Feb 9, 2009 18:36
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none of them, they both have a shitty plastic toy feeling.
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Psynthex
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Posted : Feb 9, 2009 18:39
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Heheeh
well for me..if i could choose CDJ 800 ) just enough for me 
nice BIG jog, no extra functional buttons, nice pitch control, friendly to use
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Dennis the menace
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Posted : Feb 9, 2009 18:44
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+1 or the 1000mk3 with the 0.2 pitch.
CDJ800 is probably cheaper to buy second hand than the 200/400 are to buy new.
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mubali
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Posted : Feb 9, 2009 19:08
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Would have to agree there too.... the 200's are my least favorite cd players and when I see them on stage, I seriously consider mixing in my computer instead of using the cd players. I really do like the 800's. I don't really tend to use the extra features that the 1000's have, but for me the 800's are a solid feeling deck and ones I would own if I djed more often.
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Posted : Feb 9, 2009 20:10
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Any of you are thinking inthe price tag?
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Dennis the menace
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Posted : Feb 9, 2009 22:12
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its only $100 difference between the 400 and 800 so its not that much
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Jester Records
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Posted : Feb 10, 2009 04:55
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On 2009-02-09 20:10, Login wrote:
Any of you are thinking inthe price tag?
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Passions don't have a price mate !!!
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Psynthex
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Posted : Feb 11, 2009 11:01
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On 2009-02-09 22:12, Dennis the menace wrote:
its only $100 difference between the 400 and 800 so its not that much
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have played on 400 few days ago and i must say, that i still prefer 800! I just dont like too many stuff and unusefull knobs on the player ( such as CDJ 400 ).. i need to have a nice jog ( big jog ), loop ( in & out ), reloop button, nice pitch control and thats probably it
One last thing.. When you are buying something...the price really doesnt matter. Its like an investment. Its like a car.. you buy it because you can drive it, when you want something more you sell it and buy a new one. Its the same with the CD players. If you would like to have more things avaliable on your cd player, you buy a new one, till than you drive with the old one.
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Posted : Feb 11, 2009 20:58
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One last thing.. When you are buying something...the price really doesnt matter.
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epic, now you have turned upside down all economic theory.
Resources are scarce men of course price matters, unless youre very wealthy.
Tell me One thing you can do with 800 that cant be done with 200? Is it useful?
on the contrary 400 has features that are useful (MIDI and USB connectivity).
But anyway surely pioneer is going to update 800 and 1000, since their competition has realesed good decks on the lat couple of years (check denon 3700, 5500, numark icdx, cdx...).
There are good deck beyond pionner out there.
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Psynthex
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Posted : Feb 11, 2009 21:21
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On 2009-02-11 11:01, Psynthex wrote:
One last thing.. When you are buying something...the price really doesnt matter.
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epic, now you have turned upside down all economic theory.
Resources are scarce men of course price matters, unless youre very wealthy.
Tell me One thing you can do with 800 that cant be done with 200? Is it useful?
on the contrary 400 has features that are useful (MIDI and USB connectivity).
But anyway surely pioneer is going to update 800 and 1000, since their competition has realesed good decks on the lat couple of years (check denon 3700, 5500, numark icdx, cdx...).
There are good deck beyond pionner out there.
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Hehe mate,
playing music since i was 8 my friend DJing since i was 15 ( so 10 years is going to turn this year ) and in this time i have learned something. If there is something you like , something you will comfortable with, something which gets you there...dont you hesitate and get it ( sooner or later ) well.. i started with decks ( technics ) moved to gemini double header and old numark mixer ( with only 2 faders and nothing else ), after that...i started with and ONLY Pioneer brand, which is IMO best on the market.
Anyway..if we leave that stuff behind. I have played on almost every Pioneer deck made and i am fully suporttative to 800. Why? Well, i have told you that in my previous post. Because..its simply build ( only loop mode, good and nice pitch control, big jog deck, nice display / even reverse is too much..also a vinyl mode is too much ) but nevermind about that. This 800 is a player which IMO is best from The Pioneer. The 200s are small for what they have on it. They could be easly compared with 1000s ( too much stuff on it..stuff you dont really need to play a good mash up ) and the 100s..well..they could be simply compared with 800s ( no extra buttons on it ) plaint and simple.
100s : Good old CD player, with good old laser and nice rotor abbility
200s : well... too much knobs at one SMALL player...new DJs would get lost on that deck
400s : totally out of the range.. this is a player which i wouldnt have and wouldnt buy. Vinyl mode on..c-mon...example: "400 XL edition" will have iPOD aswell ( hehehe.. ) , maybe you could play it with mobile phone... This is a player which is no needed really. Design is out and USB ( what about if USB got corrupted when you are heading on a GIG??? what about than? and that is all you have... THE CDs are still TOP NOTCH!!! I dont trust USB stuff what concirns playing tracks and leaching tracks out of them..NO WAY JOSE )
1000: TOP NOTCH player..really nice and smooth, good one and wonderfull But why to have it..if i could have 800 for my needs but 1000 is an enormous "cow" )
Cheers mate and hey, this is only my opinion and expressing myself
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ultraviolence
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Posted : Feb 12, 2009 02:10
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Hmm personally I really love the Wide pitch shift on 400s as well as effects, at half the price of 1000, oh and the jog wheel is really good too IMO... but yes it is only my opinion also
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Posted : Feb 13, 2009 01:53
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I m not a DJ, i bought two cdj200 and a crap mixer, this was my first contact with turntables, and i have nothin to say about the cdj200, works really well, it all depends of the person behind it. |
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Posted : Feb 14, 2009 13:23
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I tend to use the vinyl mode for finding cue points because it's more intuitive for me.
But the 400 has a lot of problems, I would much rather use an 800 or 1000
Among the problems:
- When playing MP3s off of USB, you are locked out of some of the pitch ranges, and master tempo is disabled.
- MP3s take a while to load (off of USB)
- The beat-based effects rely on auto-detecting BPM, so if it doesn't detect the BPM right, you can't use them.
- You can't do spinbacks, it'll run out of buffer and the sound will stop. People don't usually do spinbacks when mixing psy but I mix other genres of music so this comes up as a problem  |
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