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I'm in the UK but I imagine there must be 2nd hand record stores in a big city like Sydney and I know Australia has a thriving party scene
Also thrift shops are a good place to look as they usually have loads of decent records especially if you can find one in an area near record distributors and labels as that will be where they'll dump the stuff they don't want.
So much dance music is pressed on vinyl that you're bound to find stuff you'll like 2nd hand. For rarer more sought after things you will probably have to shell out on gemm.com or ebay.
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The Technics is a great value starter turntable for anyone into records DJ or otherwise. If you want to try your hand at scatching though you'll need to have a few different carts as Hi-Fi ones won't be suitable. Stick with the standard Technics arm to begin with and get a cheap DJ stylus like a Shure or Stanton for scratching and a Denon DL110 or 160 for listening. You can mount them on different headshells to make this easier. Stanton make a decent magensium headshell which you'll find in any DJ store.
If you want a pair of Technics to try mixing you should be able to get a deal on them. If you're just getting one to start with you'll need a dedicated pre-amp. Cambridge Audio or Nad make good ones. Otherwise if you opt for a pair of turntables then you'll want a mixer which will have the pre-amps built in.
It's worth spending a decent amount on a mixer as cheaper ones will skimp on audiophile quality parts. Look for something as simple as possible with no onboard sampler or anything like that. Urei, Soundcraft, Allen and Heath and Technics themselves make good ones.
You should be able to get a good quality turntable set up like this for 1500USD or thereabouts.
As far as speakers go studio monitors are actually excellent for listening to electronic music. I would recommend Genelec or PMC but these will probably cost an arm and a leg down under so you should probably check out brands like Yamaha which don't have so far to go or whatever they use locally.
The most important thing with speakers is to get some which suit your space so if this is large you'll need something pretty powerful. An average sized (UK) room about 15ft square will be fine with active nearfield monitors but anything bigger you may be better off price wise with some conventional passive floorstanding speakers and power amp. Yamaha Soavos are nice and Rotel make some pretty beefy poweramps for reasonable money.
You are best off going to some DJ / Music shops and Hi-Fi dealers to audition speakers to see what you like.
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Good DAC's are pretty cheap these days. There are loads Hong Kong based ebay sellers with really good quality Dacs for a few hundred dollars. Unless you want to record onto the computer, which is what an M-Audio will allow, then plugging your soundblaster into one of these or bypassing it altogether via USB and then going straight into a mixer will be fine.
Or else if you opt for a single turntable set up then get a cheap passive pre-amp like the new Pro-Ject one is perfect for this kind of set up.
| Originally Posted by zantetsuken /img/forum/go_quote.gif I don't mind getting vinyl though, i suppose the best places for that is online any links on good pages for retail vinyl will be helpful ill go check those out as well, also umm i don't think we have an audiogon in Oz. |
I'm in the UK but I imagine there must be 2nd hand record stores in a big city like Sydney and I know Australia has a thriving party scene
Also thrift shops are a good place to look as they usually have loads of decent records especially if you can find one in an area near record distributors and labels as that will be where they'll dump the stuff they don't want.
So much dance music is pressed on vinyl that you're bound to find stuff you'll like 2nd hand. For rarer more sought after things you will probably have to shell out on gemm.com or ebay.
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| Originally Posted by zantetsuken /img/forum/go_quote.gif would it be a good idea to use the Technics for just enjoying music as well as dj'ing, or should i have a dedicated system just for my own music? and a separate turntable for dj'ing?, remember the setup is mostly for listening to music at high quality the recording is only a side thing as a hobby not really a professional or anything just yet lol. |
The Technics is a great value starter turntable for anyone into records DJ or otherwise. If you want to try your hand at scatching though you'll need to have a few different carts as Hi-Fi ones won't be suitable. Stick with the standard Technics arm to begin with and get a cheap DJ stylus like a Shure or Stanton for scratching and a Denon DL110 or 160 for listening. You can mount them on different headshells to make this easier. Stanton make a decent magensium headshell which you'll find in any DJ store.
If you want a pair of Technics to try mixing you should be able to get a deal on them. If you're just getting one to start with you'll need a dedicated pre-amp. Cambridge Audio or Nad make good ones. Otherwise if you opt for a pair of turntables then you'll want a mixer which will have the pre-amps built in.
It's worth spending a decent amount on a mixer as cheaper ones will skimp on audiophile quality parts. Look for something as simple as possible with no onboard sampler or anything like that. Urei, Soundcraft, Allen and Heath and Technics themselves make good ones.
You should be able to get a good quality turntable set up like this for 1500USD or thereabouts.
As far as speakers go studio monitors are actually excellent for listening to electronic music. I would recommend Genelec or PMC but these will probably cost an arm and a leg down under so you should probably check out brands like Yamaha which don't have so far to go or whatever they use locally.
The most important thing with speakers is to get some which suit your space so if this is large you'll need something pretty powerful. An average sized (UK) room about 15ft square will be fine with active nearfield monitors but anything bigger you may be better off price wise with some conventional passive floorstanding speakers and power amp. Yamaha Soavos are nice and Rotel make some pretty beefy poweramps for reasonable money.
You are best off going to some DJ / Music shops and Hi-Fi dealers to audition speakers to see what you like.
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| Originally Posted by zantetsuken /img/forum/go_quote.gif MSI K8N Diamond Motherboard with on board audio "Creative Sound Blaster live! 24-bit audio capable of 24bit/96KHz, 100db SNR with a digital output its got 2 S/P outputs ones square (TOSLINK i think?) and the other looks like a RCA plug...i think thats what u call coaxial?(unsure)..etc" how does this compare with the M-Audio Sound cards? will it make a significant difference? oh and its connected to some Logitech X-530z at the moment (pretty crappy compared to the stuff u guys have) |
Good DAC's are pretty cheap these days. There are loads Hong Kong based ebay sellers with really good quality Dacs for a few hundred dollars. Unless you want to record onto the computer, which is what an M-Audio will allow, then plugging your soundblaster into one of these or bypassing it altogether via USB and then going straight into a mixer will be fine.
Or else if you opt for a single turntable set up then get a cheap passive pre-amp like the new Pro-Ject one is perfect for this kind of set up.
