Portable Turntable Quality
HaSTe
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I am currently travelling the world and I am sick of not being able to be able to make any music while travelling, so I am going to buy a laptop and possibly a portable turntable just so I can stop myself from going crazy. I was just curious about the audio quality of the two flagship portable turntables out there - ie the Numark and the Vestax. I don't expect them to be high quality, as they are essentially designed for previewing music - but has anyone actually used them to sample with? Or is the fidelity too low on these turntables? I'm not a super pedantic audiophile, but just to give you an idea at home when sampling I use a special stylus I bought and a dedicated phono preamp (instead of the ones on my DJ mixer).
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I personally think the vestax/numark offerings are crap, notsomuch fidelty-wise, just that they are quiet and shoddily built. i would venture to say as far as fidelity
goes, this would be one of the better:
the whole reason i use a portable is to lessen my risk of bringing home
records.
Huh??? Why is risking money on potential crap a good thing? If anything having a portable with you increases the volume of quality vinyl you get for your dollar.
and I have an extra sound burger in the box if you're in need......
got an extra needle? a fellow soulstrutter...whose sock got caught up in mine caused some damage...haynes should my burger...
Real Talk!
My man only has the best Firestone Christmas joints, none of that filler weak shit!
twoply gave me has the best sound. . .
i dont bring it out with me to record stores, cause most of the owners out here hate that shit and give me mad grief over it so i stopped even trying. I bought it mainly to sample, but its way to trebley and i get a mean rumble that goes thru the output with it so its baiscally useless for that application. Its been sitting on my bar now gathering dust for well over 3 months.
only found this pic, one of our old flyers! it has a blue lid aswell... pitch, line out...
same experience. the fisher price i bought for $12 off ebay is the best one i have. the gp3 broke after about 2 years of heavy listening. this fisher price is nice (other than the fact you can't plug it into the wall). not the big bird but the red one. plays loud, is solid. i used to have issues with playing stuff out loud without headphones but i don't really care anymore.
the gp3 plays too quietly. it's fine in home situations (when it's not broken) but at conventions or in the "field" it's way too quiet.
i don't know if you can hook the fp up to the computer though. someone told me a long time ago how to do it but i can't remember the instructions.
I do indeed - I'll bring it with me round new years.
I use the gp-3 when I'm rolling locally, take the burger on trips (and hook it into my computer with imic), and have the phonorgan when I wanna get all D'angelo over tracks!!!