You can’t be serious that a simple personal opinion degrade the value of an equipment.
You have eyes and ears, don’t you? You know what you need your equipments for. Nothing is stopping you from trying the equipment yourself before you buy it. The question is only how valuable is a certain equipment to you and your needs?
The possible degrading value of an equipment is due to several factors, like functionality, reliability, long term software support and serviceability.
And speaking of degrading value due to serviceability, here is one reason:
I am not the only person that did audio processing tests on this forum and elsewhere. On the ground issue, HellNegative had his 5000s’ touch glitch up at a gig somewhere I think in Cincinnati when he had good electrical line grounding. This is real, demonstrable stuff. I don’t work for InMusic. I’m a customer. My posts are also not just critical, they’re also constructive and with accompanying ideas for solutions. On the touch jog ground fault, I came up with an idea on how to reseat the jog and mitigate it temporarily at least for a few hours at a time… and that’s besides the recommendation for InMusic do a public repair program for them or something.
For the record, I don’t think I’m oversimplifying this into one being “better” than the other. It’s complicated and there are currently real tradeoffs.
Just to be fair here - neither are you. All we can do is guess - its been interesting guessing what Denon would bring out - there’s been a lot of possibilities - you’ll not know for sure until NAMM opens its doors. Said with all respect.
Personally, I hope they do bring out something outstanding, as I cant help but feel let down by today’s Denon announcement. I would seriously consider something like a Pioneer “SC6000”, as i am really keen on getting a good sampler like the DJS1000. I have to be brutally honest though - I think it exceptionally unlikely.
I have never used a Pioneer DJ deck before - is anyone else in the same boat?
I used CDJ’s for years, but not only CDJ’s. I never seen any great value in Pioneer gear. Ecosystem? It’s easy to adapt. No eco system? Creat Your own structure.
I was playing very much with Traktor, and I didn’t like how the song collection was managed there.
I made my own folder structure by genre and it stayed like that till now and still works. I can find any of my tracks even without any extra data base/library software and I can do it very fast.
So to use Engine Prime - easy, simple. No hustle for me.
So if someone keeps their music organized, it will stay organized in any library software.
This is what we see with all these complaining, whining people… They have a mess library, and then expect that engine will fix it… Then a big surprise - it doesn’t.
Mess will stay a mess.
I would say that the BPM analysis needs some looking at, but to expect Engine Prime to sort out a messy collection is like throwing flour, eggs and milk in a microwave and expecting a cake to come out the other side. You still need to put in a bit of spadework to get it done.
Although the rumors of a NXS3 or CDJ-3000 are still around, I’m not sure if that will be the case. Not even a slight leak, but they keep secrets pretty well (DDJ-1000).
On the other hand. I really don’t care what they bring.
Pioneer DJ endorsers do not simply turn their back to equipments like CDJ TOUR or CDJ2000NXS2, but just checking the new Denon DJ Prime series for its performance. Lower tier Pioneer DJ equipment users are more susceptible to take the Prime series in their sights, due to its more wallet friendly offering compared to the Pioneer DJ flagships.
