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Poll : Decks: Technics or Oem ???

M-Plex posted on 12-12-2005 01:02

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Because I seen a lot of discussions about which deck is better,
here's is a poll for you!

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What do you think about Technics or OEM ??

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jordy posted on 05-04-2006 10:43

Pro+

OEM... beter in een aantal puntjes... en als je over resonantie begint moet je de Stanton variant maar nemen

Technics = niets mis mee... maar out-dated!

Rhino posted on 05-04-2006 11:55

Almost-Pro

Technics of course , no doubt.

An example, when you get your technics out of the box it,s user ready.

Something you can,t say about the OEMS , they have to be undone of the(speling in dutch)space between the tone arm.

something like that is not really pro i guess, but hobby.

For example how can you make a decent scratch when the arm has a gap in wich it moves back and forth.

(by the way The oems do spin very nice , en you can mix a nice set on it, but earlies mentions are to cruel to be treu.

And then i have some experiences from the field that surely do right to the TECHNICS brand.

One time at the radio station where i play every now and then with friends , we discoverded that one of the technics decks had a little hum in it,s signal.

First we checked the groundwire etc etc.

Everything seemed to be oke, but the hum was still there.

after getting a bit frustrated we decided to open the machine.

What we found in there was something like Lake chocolate.

Somebody had thrown a cup of hot choclate with sugar in the turntable(probabely by accident, but didn,t tell the maintenance engineers.

It was a total wonder that the machine still did it,s work although it had a little hum.

We cleaned it thoroughly and it worked like it did all these years before.

we didn,t have to replace a piece .

It just STILL worked, ubelievable.

Second example:we used a lot agregators(dont no how to say it in english, probalely its EXTERNAL MOBILE POWERSUPPLY)when we gave illegal parties.

It,s a given fact that when you have buttons and knobs, and everybody can acces them(because of the venue`s lay out of the illegal party), everybody WILL acces them.

It resulted in a fluctuating electricity level between probably 200 en 240 volt en even fluctuated in ampere.

The technics survived the fluctuations.

ElectricalFluctuations in the powersupply are know by there powers to destroy gear

It didn,t affect the technics at all Happy, laughing

And last summer(maybe the strongest story of all about the techs)me and a friend of mine where spinning outside .

We used a black and decker workmate with a wooden planchet to position 2 decks and a mixer.

But if you know what a workmate looks like , you,ll know that 2 decks and a mixer don,t fit on that workmate, so we used the planchet.

But by using the planchet we created an overhang of the 2 decks , so they had to be placed on the planchet both at the same time, otherwise one would fall of.

But when ballanced together it,s a rigid construction.

At the end of the night when the party was over ,one of the guys who helped us all night long ,had a little too much to drink en picked up one of the decks from the workmate.

You can imagine what happend to the other one and the mixer.

They where catapulted onto the ground from a hight of about 110cm.

They fel on solid street stones real hard,........you could really hear it,s pain when it hitted the ground....LOL

And you know what, it still plays every week , and is as rocksolid as it was a these years before.

Next year the machine has it,s birthday , 17 years old,........ we will celebrate by givin it a real chunky record to play.

May be it gets a litte kiss to, ......i love technics.

Its simply the best deck for dj,s ever, no argue for me about that !

User edit by Rhino on 05-04-2006 @ 12:44:27 (2%)

jordy posted on 05-04-2006 12:12

Pro+

If technics had made a more up-to-date model
with:

- more precise pitch
- no overshoot
- second stop/start button (for scratching style)
- maybe something like MT

then it would still BE the #1 TT on ALL sides..

but that would be if it was me in charge Winking my eye

Rhino posted on 05-04-2006 12:47

Almost-Pro

Pitch is very precise to me, it,s the only thing i use to make corrections, therefore i also have no trouble of overshoot, because i,ll never sweep the plate during mixing.
Only use the pitch fader to make corrections.

But again no doubt that the oems are very very nice players, but i just prefer the techs.
Happy, laughing

djmamo posted on 05-04-2006 14:09

Pro

Eindhoven

@ Rhino

i see you did a lot with your technics but this doesn't see why its better than the oems..... because you only can see that if you tride this with a oem you know witch one is better.

www.moonentertainment.nl

Bastian posted on 05-04-2006 16:00

Pro

Poster: Rhino
Technics of course , no doubt.

An example, when you get your technics out of the box it,s user ready.

Something you can,t say about the OEMS , they have to be undone of the(speling in dutch)space between the tone arm.

something like that is not really pro i guess, but hobby.

For example how can you make a decent scratch when the arm has a gap in wich it moves back and forward

But when the "speling" is removed than you have the tone arm of a technics!

Rhino posted on 05-04-2006 16:28

Almost-Pro

2 mamo: but from technics we know it survives the hardest conditions for sure!

And that helps people choosing i guess.

Also when you use google, and search for problems about the 2 decks you,ll hardly find problems with the MKII(and i mean MKII`s only), but you,ll find enough problems with oem players.

And i think that are real credits for technics, it say something about the build quality and their performance.

And fact is that they are known by all kinds of people who wont be surprised if they see a technics set in their booth where they have to play, but they will be surprised when they see oems for sure.

Most important , its the industry standard amongst turntables

jeansos2 posted on 05-04-2006 16:33

Semi-Pro

Why MkII's only Confused

Rhino posted on 05-04-2006 16:39

Almost-Pro

Because these are the decks i,m experienced with

i own MkII`s myself .
The followers of the MKII are a little different(probably just as good)
so i cant speak for them !(used them and all , but dont own them .

djmamo posted on 05-04-2006 17:37

Pro

Eindhoven

Poster: Rhino
2 mamo: but from technics we know it survives the hardest conditions for sure!

And that helps people choosing i guess.

Also when you use google, and search for problems about the 2 decks you,ll hardly find problems with the MKII(and i mean MKII`s only), but you,ll find enough problems with oem players.

And i think that are real credits for technics, it say something about the build quality and their performance.

And fact is that they are known by all kinds of people who wont be surprised if they see a technics set in their booth where they have to play, but they will be surprised when they see oems for sure.

Most important , its the industry standard amongst turntables

ok let me see witch site has problems with the synq? non......

and if you see one i want to know.

and industry standard..... this could change

www.moonentertainment.nl

Bastian posted on 05-04-2006 17:51

Pro

Poster: djmamo
and industry standard..... this could change

Je ziet in steeds meer clubs synq's staan i.p.v. de technics.

Eigenlijk is de technics ook een beetje met features minimaal en het gaat eigenlijk

erom bij hun om de stevigheid en bij de oem's hebben ze ook nagedacht om er meer features bij te doen en dat maakt het ook concurerend ofzoiets:p

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