Records are heavy – Don’t underestimate this.So by the time you get that hot track on vinyl, your fellow digital DJs will have been playing it for weeks. Aside from costing you extra, delivery takes time. Getting the music takes long – Unless you live in a big city that may still have a DJ record store, your only way to get fresh material is to order vinyl by mail.Tricks such as backspins are particularly damaging to vinyl. Guess what – little by little, each playback damages the groove and degrades the record’s sound quality. Records wear out – Playing back a vinyl record is essentially a mechanical process where a needle traces the groove cut out in vinyl.You still have to pay around $10 for a new vinyl single, and what do you normally get? A track plus a couple of remixes, some (or most) of which you may not even like. Record pricing totally missed the iTunes revolution that unbundled the $10 album into $0.99 tracks. Vinyl is expensive – This is a real bitch.Here are the reasons why I ended up ditching vinyl and went 100% digital. I spend most of my time DJing with my Serato controller, and I couldn’t be happier. These days, my decks mostly gather dust, aside from the times when I need to digitize an old record or two. (Pioneer had just released the CDJ-1000 with vinyl emulation that year that was the start of the digital revolution.) I learned to beatmatch, mix and do all kinds of tricks on my turntables, and they have served me well over the years. I got my first decks in 2001, when vinyl DJing was still considered the only “real way” to DJ.
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