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EL_HOlandes
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HI
I have played with the NUmark cdx today for 1 hour. I will try to give you a unbiased, no-no comercial review of this cd player.
WHen I saw it in the shop I thought....damned ...is this a cd player or is this a turntable? I was impressed. I have to say that the thing is bug and heavy. That is a good sign. It looked so big compared to the pioneers and the denons.
I pushed the start button and damned. This thing is fast and acts like a real turntable. So the first thing I did was this ' DJ-AL' trick used in the technics sldz video. NO delay/drag when touching the platter. The thing amazed me. It is a strong motor. YOu can feel it from my micheal jackson 'nose' to my big ' moonwalker' toe. Very impresive.
I started messing with the cdx. I did very ultra fast scratches with one hand, then I did the same **** with 2 hands and they I went crazy on it.....doing 7 forward spins and 7 backwards spins one after the other and guess what? No delay whatsover. It is fast and reliable. NO needle skips. :spin: Why doesn't it skip? I had one weird ffeeling......I was really asking myself....is this a cd player or is this a turntable? I could do abnormal stuff with it and trust me.....it will not skip. So I think the cdx basically gives new posiblities to the scratchers among us. New DJ's will love it cause moving the platter is like eating chocolate in DJ AL's bedroom. Just kidding. By the way, the DEnon is good player compared to the technics but I really need a 12 inch platter and a stronger motor. The cdx is strong! The only thing that I couldn't understand were the 'cue's' . The rest is self-explanatory. The cue button works and it respond instantly. NO messy buttons, just ugly. :smash:
Then I pushed the 'master key/pitch' and went scratching. No pacman sounds in the cdx!!
The technics have them and screw up, but the numark cdx did not. I could hear the cdx laughing when I did abnormal scratching experiments with it. It was a piece of cake for the cdx and for me. So easy. The platter is way cool and the best of the whoel unit. THe platter is just amazing and it responds like a ttx. With the master pitch on , I increased the pitch to 80% and wen back to -70% and again I increased the picth to 66% and back and in the same time I did scratches and backspins on them. No F-Up artifacts whatsover! No yellow commodore 64 pacman or other techncis slpc sounds (yep...technics sldz should change their names into techncis slpc....pc=pacman. lol 
. I didn't knew Micheal Jackson was so funny after all those operations ) I was as happy as MIckey mouse doing a scratch on pluto's nose.
The feel is amazing as hell and heaven, but. THer is always a BUT!
I have to say that the lay-out of the cdx is weird and ugly. It' s a ugly turntable compared to the technics sldz, pioneers and denons. :smash: . The buttons are all right. The cue and stutter buttons are well build and respond to my needs. The other buttons (smart loop and the other smaller buttons) are too small and too pre-productish if you know what I saying. THey could have been designed with more care. They are ugly. that is all.
I do not like the pitch slider of the cdx. It is tooo way wobly and unstable. Next to the cdx was the technics 1200 and I moved that pitch slider up and down and well.....I love the technics slider. NUmark could have done a better job on this on. I do not say it is bad, just wobly. I guess every turntable has fixation and smoothing problems in the beginning. I guess after some time it will do just fine. It is also a matter of knowing the cdx and its secrets or should I say ' her' , cause the cdx looks like a girl. The red buttons and red lights. A bit like playmobil stuff to me. The lay-out seems cheap and plastic.But I touched the outer side of the cdx and it is hard as hell and stronly build. I guess.
The other I didn't like is the rotating pad of the effects unit which can be used to forward and backward tracks. The weird thing is that you need to push the ' search' button evrytime you change track. the cdx turns off the red light of the search button everytime you go to the next track. That is just a bit weird. I know that the wheel can also be used for effects, but I thihnk there should have been a switch to turn that on the whole time. I also miss the functionality of the denon in the cdx. I mean....you can' decide how fast you forward a song. If you want to forward, let's say from 1 sec to 2 min and 45 sec you need to turn the wheel like hundred times to get to that point. I prefer the standrad cd buttons found in analog ****.
To be honoust, the effects are cool at first, but you will not use them after a while. They are just too simple. Instead of effects, they could have used a ' sampler' or something like that.
Don't get me wrong. Evrything works and maybe it is a question of getting to know the cdx.
Another thing is that let's you are mixing instead of scratching, then of course you rotate the cdx and then forwarding tracks will be a pain in the ass. Why? Because the black box where the loop in and the loop out is situated just sit in the way the whole time. YOu need to have a inspector gadget arm to reach to the effects/forwarding wheel.
Again, the cdx is the best scratch cd player out there. It is damned ugly (ugly buttons, ugly lettertype, weird layout), but damned fast at the same time and realistic. I think at the end, you will be amazed bytthe quality of this deck. It feels like a turntable.
:badger:
HOw about the sound? As every cd player on the market today, you can notice some digital sound in the scratches. They are not so deep and analog you could say as the vextax or stantons. MAybe it will be improved in later updates, but I have to say......the feel of the unit is AMAZING! I won't recomend it for the mixers among us, cause the pitch slider is just not so detailed and stable. The scratchers and new wanna-be DJ's among us will love it.In the scractch digital domain, the cdx is the best. For mixing styles, I would recomend the pioneer (DJ tiesto uses digital pioneers by the way in his new single). Dj Tiesto is the best DJ at this moment.
I haven't seen the technics, so I can't say antyhing about them than what |I saw in DJ AL's marketingvideo. So I will review it later on.
I did saw the TTM from tascam and it is a fine piece of material. It was fun to use it, but it is just not what I am looking for . I need more freedom in dj-ing.
OK, that was it. IF you got any questions. Post them , cause I will asnwer them. . I accept questions from denon, pioneer and vestax representatives also! :spin:
I have played with the NUmark cdx today for 1 hour. I will try to give you a unbiased, no-no comercial review of this cd player.
WHen I saw it in the shop I thought....damned ...is this a cd player or is this a turntable? I was impressed. I have to say that the thing is bug and heavy. That is a good sign. It looked so big compared to the pioneers and the denons.
I pushed the start button and damned. This thing is fast and acts like a real turntable. So the first thing I did was this ' DJ-AL' trick used in the technics sldz video. NO delay/drag when touching the platter. The thing amazed me. It is a strong motor. YOu can feel it from my micheal jackson 'nose' to my big ' moonwalker' toe. Very impresive.
I started messing with the cdx. I did very ultra fast scratches with one hand, then I did the same **** with 2 hands and they I went crazy on it.....doing 7 forward spins and 7 backwards spins one after the other and guess what? No delay whatsover. It is fast and reliable. NO needle skips. :spin: Why doesn't it skip? I had one weird ffeeling......I was really asking myself....is this a cd player or is this a turntable? I could do abnormal stuff with it and trust me.....it will not skip. So I think the cdx basically gives new posiblities to the scratchers among us. New DJ's will love it cause moving the platter is like eating chocolate in DJ AL's bedroom. Just kidding. By the way, the DEnon is good player compared to the technics but I really need a 12 inch platter and a stronger motor. The cdx is strong! The only thing that I couldn't understand were the 'cue's' . The rest is self-explanatory. The cue button works and it respond instantly. NO messy buttons, just ugly. :smash:
Then I pushed the 'master key/pitch' and went scratching. No pacman sounds in the cdx!!
The technics have them and screw up, but the numark cdx did not. I could hear the cdx laughing when I did abnormal scratching experiments with it. It was a piece of cake for the cdx and for me. So easy. The platter is way cool and the best of the whoel unit. THe platter is just amazing and it responds like a ttx. With the master pitch on , I increased the pitch to 80% and wen back to -70% and again I increased the picth to 66% and back and in the same time I did scratches and backspins on them. No F-Up artifacts whatsover! No yellow commodore 64 pacman or other techncis slpc sounds (yep...technics sldz should change their names into techncis slpc....pc=pacman. lol . I didn't knew Micheal Jackson was so funny after all those operations ) I was as happy as MIckey mouse doing a scratch on pluto's nose.The feel is amazing as hell and heaven, but. THer is always a BUT!
I have to say that the lay-out of the cdx is weird and ugly. It' s a ugly turntable compared to the technics sldz, pioneers and denons. :smash: . The buttons are all right. The cue and stutter buttons are well build and respond to my needs. The other buttons (smart loop and the other smaller buttons) are too small and too pre-productish if you know what I saying. THey could have been designed with more care. They are ugly. that is all.
I do not like the pitch slider of the cdx. It is tooo way wobly and unstable. Next to the cdx was the technics 1200 and I moved that pitch slider up and down and well.....I love the technics slider. NUmark could have done a better job on this on. I do not say it is bad, just wobly. I guess every turntable has fixation and smoothing problems in the beginning. I guess after some time it will do just fine. It is also a matter of knowing the cdx and its secrets or should I say ' her' , cause the cdx looks like a girl. The red buttons and red lights. A bit like playmobil stuff to me. The lay-out seems cheap and plastic.But I touched the outer side of the cdx and it is hard as hell and stronly build. I guess.
The other I didn't like is the rotating pad of the effects unit which can be used to forward and backward tracks. The weird thing is that you need to push the ' search' button evrytime you change track. the cdx turns off the red light of the search button everytime you go to the next track. That is just a bit weird. I know that the wheel can also be used for effects, but I thihnk there should have been a switch to turn that on the whole time. I also miss the functionality of the denon in the cdx. I mean....you can' decide how fast you forward a song. If you want to forward, let's say from 1 sec to 2 min and 45 sec you need to turn the wheel like hundred times to get to that point. I prefer the standrad cd buttons found in analog ****.
To be honoust, the effects are cool at first, but you will not use them after a while. They are just too simple. Instead of effects, they could have used a ' sampler' or something like that.
Don't get me wrong. Evrything works and maybe it is a question of getting to know the cdx.
Another thing is that let's you are mixing instead of scratching, then of course you rotate the cdx and then forwarding tracks will be a pain in the ass. Why? Because the black box where the loop in and the loop out is situated just sit in the way the whole time. YOu need to have a inspector gadget arm to reach to the effects/forwarding wheel.
Again, the cdx is the best scratch cd player out there. It is damned ugly (ugly buttons, ugly lettertype, weird layout), but damned fast at the same time and realistic. I think at the end, you will be amazed bytthe quality of this deck. It feels like a turntable.
:badger:
HOw about the sound? As every cd player on the market today, you can notice some digital sound in the scratches. They are not so deep and analog you could say as the vextax or stantons. MAybe it will be improved in later updates, but I have to say......the feel of the unit is AMAZING! I won't recomend it for the mixers among us, cause the pitch slider is just not so detailed and stable. The scratchers and new wanna-be DJ's among us will love it.In the scractch digital domain, the cdx is the best. For mixing styles, I would recomend the pioneer (DJ tiesto uses digital pioneers by the way in his new single). Dj Tiesto is the best DJ at this moment.
I haven't seen the technics, so I can't say antyhing about them than what |I saw in DJ AL's marketingvideo. So I will review it later on.
I did saw the TTM from tascam and it is a fine piece of material. It was fun to use it, but it is just not what I am looking for . I need more freedom in dj-ing.
OK, that was it. IF you got any questions. Post them , cause I will asnwer them.
. I accept questions from denon, pioneer and vestax representatives also! :spin:
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