This has definitely been an interesting discussion to keep up with, because I’m getting more background information on both of them than I was anticipating haha
I’m definitely getting the 92, its decided. More or less based on the fact that my funds won’t allow for the extra couple hundred for a 900 or a DB4..
The 4-band EQ will make mixing much tighter, IMO. Especially if I’m doing bedroom mixes. Now, the real question is how to get rid of my old mixer and the road case that will no longer hold my CDJs and whatnot…
Thanks for all the input, everybody. You all seem thoroughly knowledgeable and definitely helped me out. I’ll have to let you know how fantastic unboxing the new A&H will be 
Resorting to personal insults just shows you up as immature and lacking in a vocabulary strong enough to get your point across. For me, everything you have said up to this point becomes meaningless. If you are struggling to get your point across go and find the proper words to use to make your point more clearly. Don’t just hide behind your laptop firing personal insults like some frustrated little teenager!!
Yea,
This thread has for sure taken a nasty twist.
My input is.. from using djm, a&h mixers, dj soundcards, hifi DACs, different mixers in home environment and clubs is that djm mixers like the 600 and below sound noticeable worse than the rest, xone mixers has a special sound to themself which you may like or dislike.
Djm 800-900-2000 with their dsps doesnt produce noise and hisses but they might occur to sound “sharp/not warmth/un-personal” but they don’t sound bad..
NI audio 4 and 8 sounds good for the money to me,
however nothing in the DJ scene sounds as good as my HiFi Dac from cambridge audio.
It’s called a dacmagic and it has balanced outputs and unbalanced rca and can take 3 digital sources optical/coaxial and sample up the signal to 192 khz/32 bit of all the sources. I use one for TV, one for wireless music via airplay and macbook and one for USB.
What I hear in the couch listening wireless sounds alot better through the dac magic in my bowers&wilkins dm685 speakers than my djm 800 mixer.
Now im a kind of hifinerd.. so for me it might be worth changing to a xone 92 because I like how it sounds, but hey, it’s a total objective opinion.
What I like you don’t have to like.
But I wouldn’t say the effects on the djm 800 are crap, they sound quite ok!
(perhaps thats also why it has been clubstandard for a while).
@mrklean, yes I have. And I know how easy it is to fudge those numbers. They don’t mean anything as far as I’m concerned. The “warm” A&H sound is something that I don’t particularly like but also something that I can hardly hear once it’s gone though a club sound system.
I own a 4-channel mixer, but yeah…it’d be really hard to spend more than $500 on a mixer if it’s not a DJR-400. I could maybe do it for an Empath or a PMC-CX just because they’re awesome. But, yeah…that thing is gorgeous.
Yeah. Nothing in the DJ world is as high end as you can get. Not by a long shot. Part of me has started laughing inside when people start comparing DJ-oriented stuff in terms of sound quality. If it’s “not crap” or better, it’s good enough…and you won’t get better unless you’re using stuff that’s not made for DJs.
And I prefer “unforgiving” to describe digital. If I can hear a difference between analog and digital stuff other than specific characteristics of the gear, it’s really subtle things that mostly give the nod to digital because you can hear more flaws in everything else.
Lets chill with the name calling and bickering please.
Can somebody please confirm if it is possible to route Traktor into Ableton using a Xone:92? Can’t decide what mixer to buy - going digital with the DJM900 or analogue with the Xone:92 and I think if I can route through the Xone:92 I will have my answer!
Thanks again everybody, always helpful!
Is that the guy who claimed that you can hear a Funktion 1 in space? The same guy who claimed that there’s a significant and noticable difference between 320 mp3’s and a full-rate wav?
I wouldn’t. His marketing people have melted his brain …
Really? The manual for the 92 says the main out is at +4dBu. What am I misunderstanding here?
I really wish he weren’t such a moron. Because the space thing is right, but you definitely can hear the difference between 320 mp3s and wav if your ears aren’t shot. I have yet to do an ABX test (shortest run was 5 songs) and not score 100%.
Then they mis-label the mixer. I don’t still have my manual and keep getting different results. The output is really quiet.
That doesn’t really matter…it just annoys me from a “wtf?!” standpoint that they’re jumping through hoops to try and keep DJs from distorting because enough people don’t know how to run a mixer that it makes more sense to build the mixer wrong.
0dB on the master output meter on my 62 was really damn quiet. I ended up running it just below the peak lights to get a decent recording level.