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Guitar Looking Thing Is Worst Attempt Ever To Replace Turntables

There are some things that just don’t need improving on. Knowing that they had no chance whatsoever of competing with the legendary Technics 1200 turntable, the people at Vestax, have set their sights on much stranger fare. This bizarre guitar looking thing dubbed the S-1 Premium, is supposed to give DJs the ability to roam around the stage while mixing music as if they were actual members of a band. Huh? Although it comes with a 12″ platter that looks like it can play records, it’s not for vinyl, but operates a skip-proof CD/MP3 player instead. Even with tons of DJs using Serato, at least their using record-like techniques to mix, and most importantly they can still scratch. But we just can’t get down with the idea of abandoning, completely, the whole idea of spinning records on horizontal surfaces like they belong. To have new age DJs running around playing air guitar with this faux turntable-mixer thing is too painful to imagine. Then add the price tag of $3000 and not even someone as progressive, or rich as Aoki is gonna go near this thing.