DJCRD

First, I would like to thank everyone involved in the project. I know how hard it is and how much time it takes to do it. When the Numark CDX was launched (with the name was CDX1 inclusive) it was a dream, the real feel of the vinyl with a great modernity (for the time) and still with a better price than the Technics. I could not resist and buy a pair, because the feel was really good, like the MK2 turntables where I learned to play and with some interesting features! But soon the dream became a nightmare with the optical drive, even using CDX only at home and very little, one or two days a week, two or three hours, in less than a year I've had problems. But after the first exchange of optical drives, the CDXs were never the same. New drives, when they correctly read the CDs (which was rare with MP3s), only ran for three to six months. In short, I never had the confidence to risk using them in presentations, in the only one I tried, I had serious problems in reading CDs. They are brand new as in the store, I ended up saving them in their boxes (with their accessories in the original plastic bags, including the numark vs technics poster that had been accompanying them) inside the wardrobe for the last 5 years. These days I was thinking of putting my old electronics course into practice and I started researching about emulating an optical drive with arduino, or something like that. Or that it could at least make CDX work at least with timecode CDs without the risk of stopping at any time. I was very happy to find this topic, with people so committed! I'm looking forward to the solution! Numark's engineering was rather unfortunate, a great idea destroyed by gross errors. Maybe if the equipment had been built robustly, would have sold well, if modernized for USB reading, evolved into a midi controller too and today could be fighting (even better) with the Pioneer CDJ2000. (Sorry for my English, I'm Brazilian and I used google translator, and for writing so much too)