Hey yall i am new here and ordered the CDI-500 system and was wondering if anybody else here has done that and if they are satisfied what they got (case, mixer and both cd players) Thanks for any help or information on this product

Will somebody please help me ... i have read that the CDI-500 has some problems like not being able to read some cd-r's .... HELPPPP

Welcome wdup. Most problems I have heard with respect to reading cd-r's is not because of the player itself. Most issues are from burning the discs at fast speeds. To prevent reading errors always burn at speeds 4X or less.

Hope you enjoy your new gear. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Thank you Omega... Most of my cd-r's are probably done at fast speeds but i have the pro-dj 1 which i have had for a while and that had no problems playing our cd's and its an american audio product so im guessing our cd's will work with the cdi-500

wdup,
The one big difference between the CDI's and the ProDJ series, is that the CDI's support allot more features. To do this they needed a high speed CD ROM drive, this drive reads ahead much faster, an unfortunate side effect is that the CDI's may pick up minor errors that a normal speed cd player won't.

What are the so called "minor errors"? thanks for all your help.

When you burn CD's especially at higher speeds, you often times get "burn errors" they are usually minor, and won't be picked up by normal CD players. The high speed reading CD roms used in many of todays advanced players will hit that "bad spot" on the disk, and sometimes miss a big chunk of data due to a minor burn error. If you don't believe me, check some other forums from major manufacturers such as Den0ns, or Pio's you will see this brought up about some of their players as well. Since they use the same technique of using high speed CD or DVD rom drives so they can buffer the data fast enough so they can offer all of the advanced features.

BTW, in almost 2 years of having my CDI's I never had a read error. I also only use Mitsui Gold CDR's which are Hospital Archive Grade (the only ones trusted by hospitals for archiving) and at 4X sometimes 8X if I'm impatient lol.

Dang... i think i use something like 48X... wow... this isnt going to be fun having to burn a bunch of new CD's but hey you gotta do what you gotta do... thank you for all your help... is there anything else i need to know about the cdi-500... tips , etc.?

Stevie Ray,

Do you know of any other cd-r's that i could use those are a little bit too pricey for me... im still in highschool so yea ... i read in another post that sony cd-r's dont have many burn errors... thanks for any and all ur help.

Really the CDR's you currently use may work just fine, you'll never know until you try. Can you go to a local store that sells the CDI's with a couple of burned tracks and try them in a demo unit? Demo units are usually used pretty hard so you could be rest assured that if the demo will play your burns, a new one should have no problems.

Also as far as other CDR's. I have heard of good success with Sony and TDK's. But in reality neither of those companies make CDR's. There really is only a couple of companies that actually manufacture CDR's, they make them, throw a brand name on, and then they go to market. So the only issue with that is you may be using Sony's which work great, but then the next batch may not be so great, since they might be manufactured at a different company with different tolerances. Companies like TDK, Sony etc subcontract their CDR's to whoever will give them the lowest contract price.

Thanks alot, well were getting out system in either tomorrow or friday so i shall know than