Cool it’s great to have choices.
I don’t think I will be buying a non motorised flagship.
Everyone will have their own idea about which model is the flagship model - “most expensive” doesn’t earn the title of flagship for a 6000 if someone’s looking for fx and a built in mixer n 2 decks all in one (see prime 4) or flagship doesn’t come into it if you think you need a battery solution etc.
What’s top of the range for some will be I’d never use that costly feature , for others
Sometimes it’s better not to stick the “flagship” flag in any product, thereby forcing the public to make their own mind up by actually reading the spec sheets rather than guessing what “of course it will, probably” features are “bound” to be on each great model.
High end then 
I don’t think there’s a low end in the prime range
Premium 
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My player arrived today. Unpacked one for now, will do the other later (family time 
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So far a nice step up from the 5k. Love the big screen and how the buttons feel.
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sick setup!! love the mixer and the headphone 
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LOL how do you have the heart to only unpack one?! that’s like saying only a little foreplay today and sex tomorrow LMAO Im obviously joking, looks great and have fun.
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The Prime 2 and Prime 4 if comparing to the SC with X mixer setup. All a matter of prospective. I say that not to put those products down but more from the perspective of capabilities. May not be much of a difference but some at least.
No doubt the whole prime family is better than any other product out there right now. Love the direction Denon is headed.
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Rotary faders…yummy. 
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Faders are not rotary, knobs are 
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When you can rotade the fader, it´s broken for sure 
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I’m gonna show my makeshift home setup later. It’s a little unique relative to what I see posted. Nothing to brag about, only to show.
The 5500 sounds SOOOOOOOOO much better than the 5000s if you compare keylock off or stay reasonably near the pitch zero. Makes me almost want to cry. Man, this audio processing needs to be improved. So much other stuff going for Prime, but that’s such a glaring area it falls short when you use them side by side… especially with thick, dense music. I find myself using Prime with a lot of more minimalist productions because the dense stuff just comes off as confused, harsh, or mush. I miss DJing tech trance and still have it sound crisp, open, lush, and kinda pretty all at the same time.
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I like the 5500, it is a great deck. And the option to put in a hard drive or cd drive makes it very versatile. But the sticker drift and max 20 seconds buffering makes it hard to use sometimes… But still possible to play and have fun 
By sticker drift, I assume you mean the lack of time added prior to the track zero and how you can’t scratch before the zero…? Because I notice that if you’re at the beginning of the track and scratch, it changes the physical representation of the sound start on the the 7" disk. I don’t notice drift much anywhere else on a track.
Another thing that bugs me about the 5500 is the hot starts require you to either be paused or to let it be playing. You can’t hold the scratch disc while in play mode and set a hot start. That is beyond goofy.
Can I ask how you interstate the Kaos pad?