CDT-05 released from the factory too soon!

As the scratchworx website image verification NEVER works, here is what I tried to let everyone there know:

Just opened up 2 CDT-05's, shipped only 9 weeks late of promise (from the dealer) and the table on one of the units just will not spin. It's as if someone on the assembly line forgot to plug something. What a joke. Way to go, Gemini!

Gemini includes no right-angled plugs - power or audio - but should be an industry standard, this caused me to cut back the foam AND go to Radio Shack for yet more electronic parts & adaptors that should always be thought through and included.

The Vinyl controller locking disc (the label-sized fastener disc) is now PLASTIC, and not metal as I had previously seen from early show pics. The body is a charcoal gray, and is indeed plastic, not metal - what a surprise. The tonearm counter weight is strange, hanging back out almost completely off of the tonearm for an Ortofon? Whoa! Also, zero instructions on what gets attached first: The control vinyl? The slipmat? The other mat? The control disc that locks the vinyl (?) down is pretty easy to figure, but come on! At least pictures if not SOME narrative. I guessed with success.

Odyssey does not yet make a foam-lined case big enough for these CDT-05's for battle (but who does, really, make a case deep enough for permanent battle setups?), but, they should start. This really doesn't matter as almost all the new Numarks and Gemini TT's are at least 17+3/4" wide, and with only 17" of clearance after adding the typical 1" foam on all sides of the TT compartments in Odysseys largest (widest)...get it?

The other case design consideration? The front-RIGHT slot loading CD hole makes for an interesting re-design of the popularly asked for - bit rarely built - drop-down sectioning of the front lip of a DJ coffin (this would be ideal, of course). The CDT-05 came out in March 07, so one would think that Odyssey could have built a case with such in mind by August! Nope.

CDT-05? Gemini? Good idea, but Gemini is not improving their rep sending out TTs that have not ALL been at least plugged in and run to see if the basics work. They are also not improving their rep by insisting - after 20 years+ in the business - that all repair work be done in NJ. Ridiculous.

Odyssey? Can you say "Retrofit", that's what I am doing - cutting out foam pockets and getting the saws-all out of its new box to cut me some drop-down flaps for easy slot access!


Damn you, Gemini!