Choosing a Karaoke Machine to Suit Your Needs

So you want to start singing Karaoke at home or you want a way to sing karaoke?

Where do you go and what do you buy?

The simplest and cheapest way is to buy a CD+G or DVD of your favorite songs and slot it into your DVD or CD player that is attached to your TV. Buy yourself a microphone and your up and running.

Amazon has a huge range and your going to find just what you want including a karaoke microphone, if your like me you will buy many Karoke CD+Gs and DVDs over time and have a large collection of music and songs to choose from and at around $7-10 per karaoke disc it is a very cheap entry into the world of karaoke songs and music.

This is where I started and I would recommend it as a good place to get a start into your karaoke 'career.' Now the issue with CDs and DVDs is, as your library grows you will have a large pile of discs to dig through to find the song or songs of your choice.

Discs get scratched and damaged along the way, even with the most careful users. You have to load it into your player and wait till its 'reads' etc. I've advanced to other forms which I'll cover shortly but having said that I still use, and wouldn't be without, my CD+G/DVD collection of karaoke songs and music.

My next transition was to a Magic Sing Karaoke machine. When I bought their "ET18000" I thought I'd never have another CD or DVD nor have the related issues that come with them. My Magic Sing came with over 2000 songs built into the system and you can purchase song chips that are inserted into the machine to add to your library.

Magic Sings is an awesome machine it has wireless Karaoke microphones, so there's no tripping over cords. Another issue with the corded karaoke microphones is the cord connection at the base of the microphone working loose with use and creating problems. Wireless is the way to go. At Amazon you can purchase a Wireless Karaoke Magic Sing "ET18000" for just under $300. That's money well spent and you may never have need for anything more.

Magic Sing are always improving their products and for an extra $90 or so you can get their "ET19K" which has more advanced and improved functions and more of the newer technologies than the "ET18000', it comes with around 2400 songs built in.

Both come with a Song book, you find the song you like, take its number, key it into the keypad on the karaoke microphone and your song is ready to be sung. Magic Sing is very portable just take it where ever you want, plug it in and your up and running. I plug mine into my TV through a home theatre sound system and the sound is just awesome. For a lesser quality sound you can just plug it straight into your own or any TV.

Some of the drawbacks with the Magic Sing are, microphone feedback, if the mic is pointed towards the system, a high pitched feedback can be an issue when coupled with some sound systems,. In the 2000 plus songs there are a number of public domain songs that are obscure or known by very few. Subsequent purchased song-chips come with these in them as well.

At a rough count I would say that somewhere between 15 to 20% of the songs are 'public domain' songs. After a while most want a larger range of songs than what's built into the machine and therefore go buy another 'chip.'

Magic Sing chips cost $50-70 per chip and most come with around 100 and sometimes up to 300 songs in them, again, Amazon has a very large range to choose from and can meet all needs.

Again you're stuck with the 'public domain' songs that come with them. After you've purchased all the chips you want you will find your Song book bulging at the seams with all the songs in your library. The biggest draw back for me personally with the Magic Sing is that you can't load single songs or an album into the karaoke machine. The only way you can get new songs or music is to buy their song-chips with their related issues spoken of earlier.

After you've filled all your song-chip slots in your Magic Sing and mastered all the songs in its library. If your like most, you want something more. After all, we are desire-fulfilling creatures and we're always looking for more desires to fulfill once we filled the last one.

If that is the case I have something for your that will fill all your desires and more. If your just starting out and want the ultimate machine then this may be the machine for you. It's a little pricey but if you want the best and latest technology you have to expect to pay for it. Amazon have them for around $800 at the moment.

If this was available when I first started with karaoke I would have chosen this along with my Karaoke CD+Gs/DVD library. It's called the Acesonic KOD-800 and comes with 500 preloaded songs, a single karaoke microphone (you have to buy extra if you want them),500G Removable Hard Drive, Search engine function where you can search by Title or Artist, or you can just key in the number of your song if you wish.

The thing I really like about this system is you can rip all your CD+G's/DVDs music and songs directly onto the hard drive of the machine and have access to all the music of your choice and never get tired of singing the same songs again. While not quite as 'portable' as the Magic Sing it can still be transported without too much difficulty.

This is a more advanced system and coupled with a good sound system would not be out of place if used in a commercial setting like a pub or karaoke night.Having said that I've seen a Magic Sing coupled to a sound system at a Karaoke Night in a large restaurant used with great effect.

At our site you will find links to all the products just mentioned plus a vast list of all the best-selling CD+Gs and DVD at Amazon.com the lists cover all genres of music covering Blues Music, Childrens, Christmas, Rock, Pop, Hip Hop, Christian, Broadway, Christian, CD+Gs Sets and much much more. The Karaoke CDs and DVD are listed from the Number one seller on down.