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Originally posted by zfleebin
Magpie: When you talk of torque I just dont see what significance it has. its like the action on a guitar if you have your skills down it barely effects you. If you use the smallest amount of pressure on the record that you have to you wont really recognize torque much. Now, I will agree the functions are cool on these new tables but I dont believe they sound better(which is all I care about), and the vestax tonearm is only important for Heavy Heavy scratching. Longer pitch sounds useful in a purely mixing environment but the reason that Technic's sticks to the +and- 8 is because of accuracy of the marks and dependability. As for reverse mode I dont think its very useful, try stopping the table and spinning it backwards while watching the redlight that works for the two to three seconds I would use backwards effects. Finally, Ill give you the fact that Vestax are nice but Numark is completely unreliable. Oh and the 505 is great but the XL7 is where its at.
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If you scratch which I do torque is important. The torque pulls the record back to running speed when I lift mt hand off the record. Also with a high torque table under heavy scratching conditions I know that while Im scrubbing the shit outta the record on top, under my slipmat the platter os still spinning.
Try anything with a pair of belt drives & youll see what I mean.
The Vestax +/-60 is just as accurate and dependable as technics +/-8.
When I first got my Vestax tables I didnt know what to do with the backwards feature but after a bit of sperrimentin
It proved to be a neat little feature that adds to a routine.
I dont think the newer tables sound better either, thats not my priority & if it was I would be listening to Cd's or something digital.
As proved above (thanks cody) I dont know shit about the Numarks, so why are they considerd unreliable????