[78-L] Portable record player

[Kristjan Saag]

Michael Biel wrote:


> We discussed a similar modern disc-cutting machine a couple of years ago
> which called the discs you could record "Dubplates".  Like this one, it
> was aimed at dance DJs who want to cut vinyl of recordings only issued
> on CD.
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One of the reasons that the Vestax 2000 has been discontinued and most of 
the other marks haven't been commercial successes is that they came to late. 
Dj's were already abandoning vinyl for CD and files.
And with new techniques developing since, which makes it possible to scratch 
"digitally" with the help of any vinyl platter, used just for registering 
the physical movement (see my post of December 10) the market for "private" 
dubplates is even smaller.
The vinyl factories, today, rely more and more on special issues (of regular 
releases) and certain genres like soul, heavy metal etc where there's a 
fashion to release stuff on 45's.
Kristjan