OUT NOW: Reloop RP-8000 MIDI Turntable

Many of you have craved the Reloop RP-8000 MIDI turntables since seeing them at BPM. And now you can have them. They're in shops now... ish.

Reloop RP-8000 MIDI turntable

We saw them at BPM, and were fortunate to get the new Reloop RP-8000 MIDI turntables into the hands of some of the finest scratch DJs that the UK and world has to offer last weekend at the DJWORX Session Scratch Jam. And now they’re available in the shops.

To be specific, the PR says in shops today, but I suspect it’ll be more like the next week or two. I did get part way through writing my review, but sadly DJ Angelo took the units I had away to devise a new set specifically for an upcoming video to show off just what the new turntables can do. But generally I was very happy with what I found, as were the gathered scratch DJs.

The only thing I couldn’t fathom from a functionality perspective was that if these decks are aimed squarely at DVS users, why put an S-arm on? Yes I know it’s to make them as Technics-like as possible (especially with the button styling), but I wish they could have been as skip-free as possible, especially when beating the crap out of the buttons.

So I’ll wait for another to become available so that I can spend some more time honing the review. But for those in any doubt that they were ever coming out, they are and they’re good.

 

Mark Settle
Mark Settle

The old Editor of DJWORX - you can now find Mark at WORXLAB

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37 Comments

  1. Im waiting to get my hands on the RP-7000, ill make sure to ask the seller to professionally “calibrate” the tonearm for a small fee because these decks are known to have minor tonearm issues compared to Technics.

    • Where did you hear that ? Or is it pure speculation and Technics love being shown.

      How is a tone arm “calibrated” don’t get me wrong there’s probably somethings you can do with a separate tonearm on a high end hifi turntable, but I’ve never heard or seen anything in over 30 years about pro-sumer TT’s.

      • i bought 2 of them (super oems) this summer, both tonearms felt loose so i returned them to the retailer, i couldnt fix them myself cause the top screws were too tight to even turn left or right, they are the exact same as seen on the RP-7000 RP-8000, over here there is a store who fixes the tonearms before shipping to the buyer. So next time i buy from that store to be secure of a “non loose” tonearm

        Technics turntables never had that problem coming new out if the factory, for the simple fact that they were Japanese build with precision. Not some Chinese cheap OEM factory.

  2. man, give me just two of those buttons strip (add a couple of dials) so i can put on a pmc-06 et voila: i’ve made my own Z2… (and still keep my 1200 in their standard size flightcase)

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