Any DJ's here?

[Manny_boy]

Sometime within the next few days, I am going to purchase a dual cd player. I was thinking, however of buying a Numark CD mix 1 or 2.

I have heard some bad reviews on them, but if anyone here owns one or has used one of them I would very much appreciate your insight.

I currently have a Numark DM1550 (rotary), which I absolutely love, so just getting a dual CD would not be a problem, but I like some of the features that I've read about with the Numark CD Mix series. If its not worth the money though, I'd rather not.

Thanks y'all...

Numark CD Mix 1

http://www.123dj.com/cd/numark/mix1.html

Numark CD Mix 2

http://www.123dj.com/packages/cd/mix2.html

[jeffseby]

well, it depends if you want to scratch music, or "screw and chop" it like DJ Michael Watts. but the "mix 2" seems good, Numark is reliable. they are good enough for mixing and having fun with.

[Oz]

I've had a bash a few times and would love my own set of decks. I quite like Technics gear, it's pretty standard across the industry - but numark has a great name too.

Are you sure you only want to mix CDs? No vinyl?

If only CDs, it seems like a pretty good deal.

[Manny_boy]

oh no, Vinyl is my first love. I use my DM1550 to mix Vinyl (well, I used to). I no longer have turntables. I lost them through the five-finger discount by what I thought at the time was a good friend, who I had a business deal with. I learned my lesson, NEVER share your equipment. My 1550 has 2 phono Inputs and 4 line inputs. I figured if got the numark cd mix 1 or 2, I could put the master out into line 2, and eventually mix cd's and vinyl.

[kublah]

Don't do it...

If you already have a mixer, there is no reason at all to buy one of those. If you did get that thing, you'd basically have two mixers which is a redundancy you don't need and certainly shouldn't pay for. Not to mention just a more complex, compromised signal chain from the certainly crappy internal components Numark puts in their low end gear.

Take the same money and spend it on a plain old dual cd system. You'll just get better equipment for your money and come out with a simpler, better sounding setup.

And after using a rotary mixer, I think you'd find the faders on that thing to be pretty disappointing, and the differences between them would make it kind of tough to get a consistent overall sound in your mixes.

On top of all that, I've got to disagree with jeffseby and say that Numark is pretty far from reliable when you're talking about the cheap stuff. I bet the mixer built in on that thing would be a lot more prone to failure than your 1550, and if that happened you'd have no cd players.

Keep it simple man...

[Manny_boy]

Kublah, I followed your advice... I did some more online comparisons between plain dual CD players and the Numark CD mix 2 - The CD mix 2 actually does not offer alot of feature compared with some other CD players. For the price they are asking, with some of the features that are not included, I couldn't see paying that price. I got a regular dual CD player.

Thanks everyone, for your replies/advice...

[kublah]

Smart move, IMHO. What did you get?

[Manny_boy]

I got a GEMsound CD-60. Pitch control +-12, pitch bend +-16, seamless looping, stutter, beat count, flip flop (replay play).
http://www.123dj.com/cd/gemsound/cd60.html

Plus I got a DB Meter (for effect), and a power distributor.