Hello everyone I am new to the community. I have been doing a lot of research looking to buy either the 400's or the 800's they are not too far off in price, I heard that the 800's are better for scratching? Which ones will be better I won't be doing all kinds of scratching but i like to mess with hip hop once in a while I used to scratch on vinyl tables which i am still thinking of getting to in addition. I just wanted to get some of your opinions to see which ones i should get? i look forward to the pioneers!

If you're a turntablist, get the CDJ800MK2.
If you want more bang-for-the-buck, get the CDJ400.

They both have identical chipsets and algorithms for the scratching but because of the larger platter of the CDJ800, it's more natural and easier to manipulate the audio when scratching. But as far as features and performance goes, it's the CDJ400 hands-down in my book.

Yes, I agree completely with Pulse; if your not scratching all the time get the 400s...

What about getting the 400's over the 1000's????

The 1000's would be it for me - I still use more CD than digital files and the waveform display is fantastic!

Thanks Guys I think I am going to go with the 400's I have heard such great things I want some tables that have some durability becauase they are going to get used quite a bit and speaking of scratching I got to see James Zabiela last night it was my second time seeing him man he was amazing he scratches quite a bit...he is quite the turntablist...I took some pics messing around on all the Pio's I will post some pics soon, but thanks for the advise everyone I look forward to talking to all you guys more!

Check out his videos on our site, some of his scratches are cue points and loops and other goodies he comes up with- Great DJ and Jason Pook's twin brother!

Yeah well he is a really good dj...he just doesn't put cd's in and plays them he was doing all kids of crazy stuff but he was scratching pretty good...i will check out some of the vids as well