Would you rather play from Vinyl or purely CD?

agreed. I'm already 2/3 of the way there.

2 decks and 2 cdjs best of both insnt

I agree C.D's are good value, I think some of the quailty is not on the same level as vinyl however. I also think C.D's are very convienant, carrying a C.D wallet is better than lugging round a massive UDG bag.

The C.D decks hold loads of new features that open the door to a wide range of techneques and I definatley suppoprt them, but vinyl is still the one for me. I have been working on 1 CDJ and two technics which is good for me, for the time being.

I am also having trouble finding a deciant techno down load web site, I have started copying my vinyl onto C.D. but it takes too long

CD!! i cant wait to stop lugging records everywhere.

There may be one fairly close to home quite soon

i love mixing with my vinyl but cds are the practical choice...

will never get rid of my decks as i've got a lot of classics on vinyl which are always fun to bring out and have a mix with but i'm looking into getting a couple of cdjs

What websites you using Si? Apart from Acidjelly of course

I'm still 80 - 90% vinyl at the minute. When I'm looking for a tune that i'm after, I'll do a google search and if I can't get a hold of it on vinyl, I'll happily pay to download it, I just haven't found a download website as reliable as Juno.co.uk for having the tunes I want. Any ideas?

i know city 16 do a realy good download thing as do warp records.

CDs decks are brilliant and you can obviously get a lot more tunes a lot easier as stated earlier but i think i will always keep at least one of my record decks, i really love mixing with vinyl.

pvd almost never uses mp3's. all the tracks he uses with final scratch are uncompressed aiff files.

You say this quite a bit, but I don't see how you can say this when you get live artists playing through sound systems and they sound perfectly alright - it IS down to quality at the moment - it's just not good enough because of the compression involved - you're removing very small parts of the wave so by the nature of the process involved you MUST loose some quality from wav as some frequencies etc aren't there.

The fact is CDs are mastered slightly different to vinyl because of the environment they are played in - ie generally on a home hi-fi, not a large sound system. But if you play a track recorded from vinyl and uncompressed and put it on a CD the only way you could tell the difference from the vinyl would be because of the quality of the AD/DA converters used in the equipment. Whereas with mp3s it is down to both the original encoding of the mp3, and the fact that it isn't an exact copy of the original - it has been compressed so it's bound to sound different.

Van Dyk doesnt just use the final scratch tho, when we went to Gods to see him he used it the majority of the night but did sneak in a couple of records and cd's am more than sure

His touch on the record when he was mxing - get that bass line back here....

ivd used a couple of cdjs, tbh it takes the fun out of mixing
ill get a couple eventually but thats just because of the direction everything going, id rather just stick to records any day tho

A CDJ800 is not much more than a 1210. Plus you can get cheaper CD decks if you can't afford them

nearly bought a cdj a little while back, but now cant afford to.
i wish i had now!

looks the sensible choice, considering the money you'll save.

if i had to choose purely one, id choose vinyl anyday personally.

i do play stuff off cd when i play out, but i only download stuff onto cd that i cant get on vinyl, as i generally prefer using vinyl!!

vinyl=

all you cd djs are just softys who cant carry record bags, and like turning up with your little pouch of cds