Technics: Mk2 or M5G

[Tyler]

BLD I pretty much agree with most of your points, and I certainly like a lot of what I hear coming from the digital DJ's (in fact I went to a party on saturday night where ALL the DJs did it off laptops, and did a great job at that, and had tons of stage presence to boot) but personally, it's just not for me. Believe me, I've tried it all. I mostly DJ for myself in my basement, as a de-stresser, as a fun challenge, and all kinds of other reasons. But the #1 reason I prefer the vinyl to the digital is that it makes MUCH more of a physical connection to me than using a computer, and Personally, I react to things on a 'body' level MUCH greater than on the 'mind' level. I work up a good sweat and a good body panic searching through my big stacks of vinyl, and manipulating the turtables and mixer in a way I just can't do while using a laptop + controller. Final Scratch is a little better, but you still miss that frantic flipping thru vinyl feeling. ALSO there is ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING WAY IN HELL that I am going to spend time encoding vinyl. I can't think of anything more boring than that.

It's all horses for courses, though. But really I think it's pretty shortsighted (and a little bit sensitive/defensive) to claim that the pro vinyl folks are just egotists trying to keep the digital dj brothas down.