Funkiest CD player ever? Technics SL-DZ1200

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  @profbx5258 · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfID_ZpHC5k&amp;t=735">12:15</a> it’s me!!! I’m ProfessorBX, the article writer. That was my 2nd article for SKRATCHWORX, and it means the world to me that you have read and quoted it after all these years. I truly love your channel (it is a constant reference for me!) and seeing you using my article as reference gives me all the warm fuzzies.<br><br>Hilariously enough, I work in product development at Pioneer DJ today, and one of the projects I was on the team for recently was a moving platter controller. Full circle I guess?<br><br>As an aside, that article got me physically threatened by one of the Technics staff at the 2005 NAMM show. Later on the guy quit the DJ industry and now does movies with Steven Seagal. You can’t make this stuff up.

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• DJ

  @djstyles97 · 3 years ago

  I love the fact that Techmoan always throws in his love for 80s and 90s hiphop in his videos.

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  @RufusWhite · 3 years ago

  I used to use these as a professional DJ in Ibiza. I loved it, as it definitely gave more of that vinyl feeling than the Pioneer CDJs that were around at the time. As you mentioned in your video, it was not without its shortcomings though, the dead-zone was definitely an issue for a lot of people, and refers to the ‘wiggle’ between the top ‘vinyl’ platter and the control platter underneath, due to them making the holes that attach to the two silver pins too big. I managed to work around it for the most part, as I’m more of a mix DJ than a scratch DJ, but yeah this would have made the unit near enough impossible to use for scratch guys. The other features on the unit were ahead of their time, but fell short of what was needed in a professional environment. 192Khz MP3s sound awful when played on a big club system, and the fact that you needed proprietary software (which barely worked) to put them onto a SD card was a nightmare. The looping features would have been great if you were able to match the loop to the tempo of the music you were playing, but as it was, you were just stuck with them at their original tempo, and had to use the platter to keep the music in time to the loop, rather than the other way around. Like you say, it was a solid idea, and I think if Technics/Panasonic had worked these issues out for a mk2 version, it would have done really well, but by that time, there were already much better solutions on the market (Timecode vinyl and more integrated laptop DJ hardware). BTW - I’d love to see you do a video on timecode vinyl, and thanks for taking me back down memory lane with this one! 😁❤

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• JR

  @jrchannel7405 · 3 years ago

  Matt isn&apos;t a DJ but you can tell he&apos;s having lots of fun with this thing

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  @mazda9624 · 3 years ago

  This thing is absolutely insane! While I can understand why professionals didn’t love it, man I can only imagine the countless hours I would have spent messing around with one of these in the mid 2000s

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  @SkratchBastidTV · 3 years ago

  &quot;I&apos;m as likely to visit a Facebook page as I am to visit North Korea&quot; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfID_ZpHC5k&amp;t=920">15:20</a> bars

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• BL

  @blue_jm · 3 years ago (edited)

  DJ Techmoan in the house! Presenting us all the classic mixes trying not upset the Youtube algorithm. HOT STUFF! 🔥🔥🔥

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• RO

  @RobertD_83 · 3 years ago

  You might not be an actual DJ, but your &quot;crate&quot; diversity definitely harkins back to old school DJs who prided themselves on having many types of music in the pursuit of having esoteric samples no one else did. Props

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  @WestCoastTyrant · 3 years ago

  You have a better grasp of the technical side of being a DJ than most new DJs. I&apos;d say you should go deeper into DJ tech and let that part of yourself play. A lot of companies are willing to send gear to people to explore and review. &nbsp;DJ Techmoan is born.

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  @Moremilesmoresmiles2 · 3 years ago

  There are lots of DJ’s that have kept up with updating these. They’ve gotten them to near modern standards of use, including fixing the looping features and moving the platter controls to a completely different place, making for a bigger control platter and less latency from the wobble of the moving platter over the motor. They’re really great! Glad to see these getting some shine in 23’.

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• GB

  @gbrading · 3 years ago

  Perhaps the most fully featured CD player I&apos;ve ever seen. And just aesthetically I love the idea of the CD player which looks like a record player.

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• HI

  @hicknopunk · 3 years ago

  You got me really excited for your North Korean travel vlog series!

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