Recording Studio Equipment

This product is excellent. Great price, very resistant materials, and excellent presentation.
For thoes that wants to keep safe the CDJ, this is the first option to get what you want.

The Denon DNS1200 is a good midi deck for those who ae looking for a medium range priced product that performs on a professional level. The product worked great. I am a digital DJ so I can’t speak on how the CD player works, but I plugged in flash drives and was able to do a set using the deck’s effects functions, sampling, and looping with minimal manual reading. I am proud to own this product and I recommend it to all professional DJs and hobbyist.

Been spinning for a minute and this really makes the party happen! Economical enough for anyone to afford, yet has most of the features the the expensive models have. Can’t say enough about the ease with which one can interchange cds on the fly. I use this in conjunction with 2 turntables and my ipod mixer for a full funtioning “work station”. What a blessing….thanx!

I bought this unit for my son’s 18th birthday (he’s an aspiring DJ, following in his aging dad’s footsteps!) and I’m so impressed. The downside being that I’ve not seen him since! He’s locked up in the bedroom kicking out some pretty impressive sounds! I love the fact that this unit has a memory to loop track samples even with the CD taken out, and the flexibility of this player. Superb value for money… even if you’re not a DJ, this is one heck of a cool toy!

I’m a college kid so I started out looking for a new pair of CDJs with low hopes. I even considered a used pair of the old technic SL-DZ 1200s. Ebay had some good used equipment, but you’d be paying $700 for a single CDJ. Did some more homework and found this piece of hardware, got it without the optional disc drive for roughly $600 on amazon. There isn’t a better deal out there. The quality of the deck is apparent as soon as you assemble the platter.

Having two decks in one is incredible. It makes it easy to go through a set list without matching cds up or digging through laptop folders, a cd case etc. Even granting simple song requests is done without stress.

I had no latency problems with 320gb WD hard drive, usb stick is also great for taking smaller sets on the road. It takes 30-1hr for the denon to build a library for all the tracks (300+gbs), but once its done you can turn it on and start mixing in seconds. USB stick only takes a minute or two, making it easy to add new sets without too much wait. The ability to use a keyboard is something I haven’t tried, but next gear upgrade I will be looking into it.

Installing the optional CD drive was a breeze, took less than ten minutes. Only bummer was you can only use the cd drive on one of the decks, not both at the same time. This makes sense though, and when coupled with an external hard drive its hard to complain.

I’ve had the deck for 3 months and there are no signs of wear yet, couldn’t be happier with this purchase. I know I’ll be using this deck for a long time. And to think, amazon had the best deal on DJ gear?!?! Who knew!

The best on the market for what they do. I own 2 decks that were purchased from Amazon in May and August of 09. I paid $450 for one and $380 for the other brand new. Fantastic deal that was all about timing, shortly after Denon removed them from there lineup and the price shot through the roof everyplace. Denon still supports the turntables though and have just recently released another firmware update 1400 which makes them a very stable unit. I have done sets from one unit using the dual deck feature as well as using the d-link feature with 2 decks and everything works like it should. I have 250GB internal hard drives installed in both units which I mirror my database on both. I love the dual deck feature because I use it as a backup. example: If one of my decks fails or drive fails I have a complete system still to finish the set without having to carry CDs or a PC along. The feel is fantastic and professional especially with an actual vinyl record attached. A much better feel then Pioneer CDJs, which I always thought feel cheap and don’t have the spinning platter. I will be keeping these decks for many years to come and I don’t think there will be anything on the market close to replacing them for many years. Get them if you want a closer feel to actual vinyl but still want to be in the digital age of DJn’ without being the face buried in the Computer DJ.