On a sidenote. I would kill to see the DDJ-SX released in a modular format.
Something like that and i could count me in immediately!
This.
On traktor.
Yep ,also something i would pull out my credit card
If you’re in Germany, then you really should be buying Reloop’s RMPs. They’re equivalent to the 850s for a fraction of the cost.
No library management, no waveform, no jog display, no Vinyl speed adjust. Not exactly equivalent.
Here we go again…
Yes then it would only be overpriced by about $300.
Seriously CDJ markups are insane. The plastic and the parts can’t cost more than $150 total (and that’s being very generous). Obviously there’s a lot of other expenses but still I think most comparable mass produced electronics for other markets would hover around the $300-$400 USD range. (And again that’s being generous). There’s no way a CD player is more complicated or expensive to produce than a laptop, yet I can get a top of the line Macbook Air for less than a CDJ-2000. I can probably get 10 netbooks for that price! That’s one of the reasons I haven’t bothered to upgrade my one CDJ-1000 mk1, a floor model from Guitar Center that I bought for $600 back in 2002 or 2003 I think, and even then I thought it was overpriced ($200 more than the 1200s I bought a few years earlier!) Even today you can get a brand new Technics 1200 m5g - which is notoriously overpriced due to Panasonic shutting the door on them a few years ago - for less than a used CDJ-2000.
Sure. But you can’t expect a software house, that doesn’t focus its r&d only on hardware, to keep prices relatively down. Still, much better than pioneer, who ONLY do hardware, and still overcharge the hell out of their products.
I wonder why the ddj-sx didn’t retail at $1700 in all honesty..
They overcharge because there’s no competition for the products they make. Technics turntables would cost much more if the market wasn’t so saturated.
The question still remains: Why isn’t the market saturated with high-end cd players, too?
Which would you consider high end? The CDJ 2000 is only a few years old and is now discontinued, whereas the Technics 1200 Mk2 has been around since 1979.
Wait wtf… CDJ2000 is discontinued???
And Technics still fetch a pretty high price tag if you’re getting a new one or a Hi Fi one. Frequently go for 400-500 over on Audio Karma.
Yep, his vendetta is getting a bit tired now tbh.
Pointing out a few facts hardly seems like a vendetta. People around here seem far more tired of your constant bias towards Reloop, which is almost always accompanied with a vendetta against Pioneer.
I don’t think he has a vendetta against Pioneer. It’s pretty much accepted that the Pioneers are overpriced, but there’s nothing else in the price range that can really compete with it except for the Denon SC2900.
Underneath the 900 though I think the Stanton and Reloop compare quite well…
@makar1 and mdcdesign please spare the rest of the forums from your personal differences. We’ve been through it already.
+1
Ive never used the rmp’s. On a cdj, I must have a light or something stating the needle point on the track.
The RMP has a red progress bar like the XDJ-R1.
Much like the Stanton CMP800. Kinda why I wanted the CDJ700 from Gemini, but it seems like it’s not too great based on your experiences.