[HN Gopher] Pioneer CDJ Guidebook: A Comparison and History of C...
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       Pioneer CDJ Guidebook: A Comparison and History of CDJs and XDJs
        
       Author : aligray
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2022-02-26 10:42 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
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       | evanelias wrote:
       | This is great and very thorough! But it's nearly 4 years old,
       | should have a (2018) appended to the title please.
        
       | mxmilkiib wrote:
       | Good stuff, though it's missing the newest model, the CDJ-3000.
        
         | scrame wrote:
         | Which, as a sign of the times, doesn't play CDs.
        
       | bredren wrote:
       | I had thought serato paired with vinyl control records on
       | traditional Technics MK2s was the sort-of stack of choice.
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       | Are people using CDs and these devices commonly today?
        
         | evanelias wrote:
         | I suspect it varies a lot by genre and possibly also geographic
         | location?
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         | For house, techno, drum and bass, etc I typically see a lot of
         | Pioneer gear, used with digital storage, not CDs. I still see
         | Technics turntables too, but with real vinyl, depending on the
         | DJ. The vast majority of the stuff I listen to doesn't involve
         | scratching / DMC-style turntablism though.
        
         | jjulius wrote:
         | It was for a time, and then the ability to plug a USB drive
         | into one CDJ and use it across multiple CDJs came into play.
         | Suddenly, instead of bringing a laptop to a club that you have
         | to fumble around with (no more unplugging and rewiring decks in
         | the middle of someone's set), all you needed to do was bring a
         | thumb drive.
         | 
         | Nowadays you still see folk using Serato/Traitor for sure, but
         | - at least within the dance music community - regular vinyl or
         | USB/CDJ (or often a combo of both) are the most common formats
         | you'll see.
        
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