Today however, I want to turn my focus to Mastersounds and more specifically Ryan from Mastersounds. But first, a little back story on Ryan. He’s a vastly experienced DJ of 25 years and long standing lover of domestic and commercial audio. Judging by the products I have received from Mastersounds so far and what I have learned through social media channels, quality seems to run through the heart of everything he does and that work that seems to resonate through a vast majority of comments associated to his products and services. Read more 

Ryan’s Mastersounds brand offers rotary mixers and modified turntables. He believes the SL-1200 can be taken to the next level with a few modifications. The Technics SL-1200 MK2 has a ubiquitous reputation as the number one turntable for DJs in the world, and rightly so as it’s built to take the abuse many DJs throw at it. The SL-1200 was originally intended as a hi-fi turntable but soon found favour with disco and radio DJs with its strong direct drive motor and +/- 8% pitch control enabling smooth mixing between records of differing tempo. Read more

I started MasterSounds 9 or so years ago as I had noticed a shift with DJs who used to play vinyl turning to digital formats. I was DJ’ing worldwide and really noticed that venues were caring less about turntables. I had seen turntable weights used for audiophile purposes and sound improvements, so decided to make some at my family engineering company, where I was a Director at the time. I then started selling them to friends who had the same predicament, but unlike an audiophile weight, I wanted to make a product which DJs could use. Read More  

Working our way through vintage vinyl, modern heavy weight pressings, 320kbs mp3’s and even just a YouTube stream, the Radius 4 improved whatever was thrown at it, offering articulate representations of the original which were full of character. To ensure we weren’t getting drawn in under the spell we plugged turntable 2 into another of Andy’s creations, the Xone42 mixer. With 2 copies of the same track we proceeded to flip between the two. It was like switching between night and day. Low end was fuller, the mid more textured, and the highs sang with the clarity of crystal. Read Review

Tracks sounded warm and powerful. The mixer clearly returns a full spectrum of frequencies and allows you to appreciate mid and low ranges much more than you do with most common DJ mixers out there. It makes such a difference when you and the dancers are able to appreciate the real bassline coming out of a record! Even when I stepped off the booth, I could hear how the mixer was getting the most out of the sound system in the room. Rich and detailed sound even at relatively high levels of volume. Read Review