I have the American Producer CD players and they work pretty well. My
experience with the Pioneers has been good as well. I have had less fortune
with the Vestax models that I have used! The Pioneers do have some features
that are un-necessary but they are good machines.
leslie/The Power of Sound
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Cohen" <a d a m EMAIL souljazz@souljazz.com>
To: "Acid Jazz Mailing List" <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: OT: DJ Equipment: CD Player
> on 6/15/01 2:49 PM, Velanche Stewart at vstewart@calpoly.edu wrote:
>
> > Any of you that have worked with
> > CD players as either your main or secondary form of musical output at
> > gigs: what do you recommend? I was thinking of the Pioneer CMX-5000, but
> > the price is a bit out of my reach presently. What are other
> > brands/models that you may recommend.
>
> I've used the Tascam CD-302 and it was a piece of shit. It failed to read
> most of the CD-R's in my collection, and one of the players stopped
working
> after about 6 hours of use. (you can find posts of my troubles with this
> unit in the Acid Jazz archives from March). I returned it and rented the
> Pioneer CMX-5000 instead. What a difference. It had a few features that
I
> didn't need, like the Automix Play, but overall, it was extremely easy to
> use and had no problems reading any of my CD's.. If I were you, I'd find
a
> place that rents CD mixers and spend some time playing around with the
> different models before making a decision.
>
> Adam
>
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