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Sujet: Virtual Dj vs Traktor, sound quality
The other day, my DJ friend complained to me that his program (Traktor) does not support XDJ-XZ. I advised him to try Virtual Dj. A few days later, he calls me and enthusiastically tells me how cool Virtual Dj sounds compared to Traktor. To be honest, I did not pay attention to all this talk about difference in sound quality before and thought that it was all nonsense. But then I really got interested. My wife and I (she is also a DJ) came to his house, he has good audio equipment and a sound card. And the three of us once again compared the sound of the two programs in the same conditions. And indeed, Virtual Dj sounds much more punchy and assertive, the drums sound like they are alive. Traktor has a more boring, cardboard sound. Moreover, the difference is very noticeable, even in a blind test it is easy to distinguish between both programs. And when a friend heard how stems 2.0 sounds, he immediately subscribed)
Thanks to the Virtual Dj team for quality software!
 
Posté Wed 26 Mar 25 @ 3:41 pm
That's refreshing to hear as there literally a million other threads about how bad VDJ sounds compared to others.
 
kradcliffe wrote :
That's refreshing to hear as there literally a million other threads about how bad VDJ sounds compared to others.


Actually, just a few months ago another Dj asked me why am I using Vdj, it's just soft for novices (lol) and it doesn't sound good). By the way, he also uses traktor, and, obviously, never bothered to compare sounds or something else. He just "heard something like that once". I prefer to check everything myself
 
It's so much comfortable to keeps one's opinion, based on hear-says, rather than forge one based on facts/experience.

Saying that, I've never compared VDJ to other software 😅
 
 
The sad part about these "quality" posts is that virtually none of them are objective/quantitative - they are all based on sound as perceived by a human (which, beyond a certain obvious point, is the least reliable method of determining quality of sound output), and years of experience of being a DJ (which has nothing to do with objective analysis of sound quality). The actua| people who have done proper experiments (there is at least one forum post on this here) have proven that VirtualDJ is true to the original sound output as described by the media - this is what actually matters, not how loud or punchy you think it sounds compared to another player. Mind you, these same claims are cropping up on forums of other offerings too but somehow participants seem to be more forgiving there.

At the end of the day, know that the sound reproduction is accurate and you can do things to make the sound as colorful as you want it to be if necessary (there are posts on that here too), you have the choice, and that is a powerful thing in itself.