Xone: DB4- the official unofficial thread

[Xonetacular]

DB2 is shipping now?

[Eizhauz]

DB2 is shipping now?

That is the $100 question...

I emailed Juno.com a week ago... zero response so far.

From the A&E video's from NAMM 2012 two weeks ago, the rep was saying after every clip "...and shipping now!..."

Nothing on either site suggests it is not shipping, as opposed to the K2 which has been delayed until April (???).

[JDFS]

I just don't get A&H's marketing division. It just irritates me how I can't figure out, by visiting sites from DJ shops, if they ship or don't ship at this moment. A&H doesn't come with press releases which says "It is shipping now!", no, we must figure it out via a video from YouTube (!).

How can this company be so lacking regarding their products? No concrete shipping dates and no reviews either, which should been there to praise their products.

A&H should take an example to Pioneer regarding their commercial actions and marketing division. I always know that when a Pioneer product is announced, it is shipping at a date which is given and reviews are online soon - to know why I should or shouldn't pick it.

If the DB2 is shipping at this time, why can't I find any reviews? And there's only ONE video online of it, no demo video with a performance, only one video where they're all talking... Not to talk about the K2. I mean, nobody knows when that one is shipping. Hell, I think it will be in the shops in August 2012 .

It is that I'm in love with the DB4... If someone owns this DB2, comment in this topic and please, please post a review because I don't see any other website doing it until 2013 (if we're still alive ).

[Eizhauz]

I just don't get A&H's marketing division. It just irritates me how I can't figure out, by visiting sites from DJ shops, if they ship or don't ship at this moment. A&H doesn't come with press releases which says "It is shipping now!", no, we must figure it out via a video from YouTube (!).

How can this company be so lacking regarding their products? No concrete shipping dates and no reviews either, which should been there to praise their products.

A&H should take an example to Pioneer regarding their commercial actions and marketing division. I always know that when a Pioneer product is announced, it is shipping at a date which is given and reviews are online soon - to know why I should or shouldn't pick it.

If the DB2 is shipping at this time, why can't I find any reviews? And there's only ONE video online of it, no demo video with a performance, only one video where they're all talking... Not to talk about the K2. I mean, nobody knows when that one is shipping. Hell, I think it will be in the shops in August 2012 .

It is that I'm in love with the DB4... If someone owns this DB2, comment in this topic and please, please post a review because I don't see any other website doing it until 2013 (if we're still alive ).

You pose some thought provoking questions. Certainly I do not have the answers. Anyone else?

You could try to call either of the shops I linked to earlier and ask. Then again, so could I. Perhaps I will.

Regarding reviews, I trust you mean someone like DJTT or Digital DJ Tips or Scratchworx or Kosmic Sound (I like these Aussies) doing a proper review with the hardware in hand?

[JDFS]

Sorry if it sounds provoking. I was speaking directly to A&H and clearing my mind, hehe... It's what 'you' call "Just my 2 pennies/cents" ?

Well, I visited a DJ shop a few weeks ago, and that guy didn't even hear about the DB2 and the K2 - but ofcourse he knew about the new limited Pioneer DJM and CDJ's in white! The only thing he came up with was, "Ohh, then it must be a stripped DB4, right?" Come on, you're the shop owner, you should know!
You see my point?

Yes, renowned DJ related websites like DJ TechTools, Skratchworx, MusicRadar, Digital DJ Tips. But I don't think A&H is sending them their hardware for review - that's just lacking... And there's no shop (in The Netherlands, at least) where I can just test them out physically, while the guy from A&H in the video says they're shipping now. Irritating!!!

I mean, the Xone mixers are just like the iLive mixers their cash cows, right? Why not take advantage of that and just bring a proper marketing campaign or something like that. When more people will hear of it, more people will buy it, more chance to become Traktor Scratch Certified (just like Andy Rigby-Jones says in one of the early DB4 videos: "Traktor Scratch Certification coming soon").

Their Xone Forum is also starved out just like Tyrannosaurus Rex...

[JDFS]

Oh, is thought-provoking a pun? Because I thought you thought I was (wow, Inception) provoking. Or does thought-provoking means that the questions are worth asking?

[Eizhauz]

Oh, is thought-provoking a pun? Because I thought you thought I was (wow, Inception) provoking. Or does thought-provoking means that the questions are worth asking?

LOL... no I felt they wear worthy questions invoking some thought as to why the strategy is the way it is... which is basically nothing at all, right?

Trust me, I am a noob on these boards. I haven't earned the right yet to be sarcastic.

[Eizhauz]

Their Xone Forum is also starved out just like Tyrannosaurus Rex...

Strange strategy by A&H.
Even more strange is the ghost-town known as the Xone forum.

[JDFS]

Well, I find everyone here friendly and willing to help, but I get you now! Maybe it is because I'm a foreigner that I didn't understand what thought-provoking means . But the fact that you agree with me says enough about A&H. I'm sure many more here in this topic are thinking the same way!

Ohh, I wish I could give some tips to their marketing division. At YouTube they're constantly uploading new videos about their new iLive system, but the market for Xone mixers is also big.

It's like Traktor (Pioneer) vs. Serato (A&H) regarding their marketing, I think. I barely see any new videos of Serato, whereas Traktor is constantly giving us DJ's a boner with videos from DJ Craze, Rafik etc.

[Eizhauz]

Well, I find everyone here friendly and willing to help, but I get you now! Maybe it is because I'm a foreigner that I didn't understand what thought-provoking means . But the fact that you agree with me says enough about A&H. I'm sure many more here in this topic are thinking the same way!

Ohh, I wish I could give some tips to their marketing division. At YouTube they're constantly uploading new videos about their new iLive system, but the market for Xone mixers is also big.

It's like Traktor (Pioneer) vs. Serato (A&H) regarding their marketing, I think. I barely see any new videos of Serato, whereas Traktor is constantly giving us DJ's a boner with videos from DJ Craze, Rafik etc.

Agreed.

I would say also, you have a very good 'grasp' of the language, mate!