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Author: DJEquip // Category:
Yamaha Mixing Console
Like a kid in a candy store I had to have these as soon as they came out. One of the biggest mistakes I ever made. I absolutely loved the features, and every feature that it has works very well and I felt it was fairly easy to learn them. That said I had mine for about 6 months and the problems began: constant disc read errors, would not eject disc without taking apart, I could go on and on. Now from others I talk to some had the same problems, alot of people had no problems, it all seemed to be on when they were manufactured. I believe they had some bugs and worked them out over time. The biggest dissappointment was part of the selling factor that got me to buy these were that the drives were replacable “on-the-fly” which is true for I had removed mine several times on jobs to try and get the cd’s out that would not eject, the problem is that they NEVER made them easy to obtain as they said they would be. I did alot of research on where I could get the drives from when I
Tags: Bugs, Candy Store, Denon, Dissappointment, Fly, Jobs, Keyword, Musicalinstruments, Several Times
August 11th, 2010 at 10:18 am
I am a DJ with 23 years’ experience, who worked for Denon as a “Certified Denon DJ” and beta tester (2004-’05), and for Guitar Center as a Pro Audio salesperson (2005). I can say with certainty, the best (and for me, only) CD player options available to long-time DJs who expect their equipment to withstand the rigors of the club and of the road, are the Pioneer and Denon. I use Denon exclusively, as I have for years.
The difference between Pioneer and Denon offerings is perhaps the difference between Mercedes and Rolls Royce. Pioneer, already somewhat the industry standard, has forged ahead and made amazing contributions to the world of VDJs, with their incredible new mixers and their DVJ-X1 DVD decks. Its advantage over Denon is the removable chip that stores cue points for particular CDs; since quite a few clubs have these decks already, all you need is the chip and your music, and you’re good to go.
But Denon’s R&D department has continually scored coups with their players, beginning with this, the flagship DN-S5000, with its incredibly responsive belt-driven spinning platter (world’s first) and its junior, the DN-S3000. It also has on-board effects–brake, dump (to backward mask profanity on the fly), and reverse. It also allows one to plays two tracks from the same disc AT THE SAME TIME (or mix back and forth between them); and with the hot disc feature, one can eject a disc while the song keeps playing, replace the disc for another, and fade into a track from the new disc.
Denon reproduces much of the look and all of the feel of vinyl turntables, and the ability for each model to store up to 1000 individual memo points, which can be communicated to another Denon player when linked, is another feature that embraces the Digital Age and distinguishes them from the competition. Free software are posted on the website, when available. Unquestionably, Denon also has the best 1-yr service warranty.