Necroooooo.
For future searchers though, ^troof. It’s so much faster setting up cues and everything. The biggest hurdle for me in mixing is getting around to burning CDs.
Look at you with the new gear in your signature. 
Yea, I got so sick of burning CDS that I bought the A10, and then the S2 to top it off. Usually keep the S2 at home and use the A10or usb for gigs. I find when I plug my S2 through a mixer or into a big system the sound quality has a slight dump compared to traditional CDs or USB.
I have had multiple conversations with sound guys about quality and controllers, most say just go USB or CDs & you won’t have any issue.
I am talking a full array of 6 or 10 PK bins though. When the rig is a bit smaller it isn’t a big deal.
Went off topic, sorry.
Surprised no-one else has mentioned the Denon 2900s. Fantastic kit for the price.
Yeah, they are. They’re great decks and if anyone is looking for a pair of cd players they really, really should check them out. I’ve had a few issues with the engine software. But nothing insurmountable.
Agreed.
Engine has had a few problems in the past, but I’ve not had any troubles with the latest version and the latest firmware.
I’m a new Engine user and I am having trouble with the track analysis. BPM seems wrong on every track, and no way to change the BPM of the beatgrid. Any advice? Just picked up a couple sc2900s 
I think the only way to change the BPM of a track is to do it in offline mode (No players connected to the laptop). Don’t quote me on this though, as I’ve never had to change the BPM of a song!
My advice is ignore your bpm and mix by percentage 0.8% + or - is roughly 1bpm.
So if you have track a) playing at 128 and track b) that you’re bringing in is 126, put it +1.6% and your b) track will be very close to 128, might need a bit of a tweak but it works. It goes up or down but once you start pumping out like 5 or more bpm on a percentage scale things start loosening up.
mixed in key is a good way to get your tracks ready and suitable for software as long as your settings are proper in mik. It will bpm your track and do it in the code as well so when you drop it into serato or traktor it will have a more accurate reading to work off of.. its not always 100% though.
Hopefully these answered your questions but I might not have read exactly what you needed and if that is the case, my bad.
There’s a small trick to work with cdj’s without decimal places:
neat, didn’t know this one. Nice post
the better idea would be to train your ear to simply hear the difference and know how to adjust and compensate without a bpm display.
there are many ways of sorting it out but yes, I would train by ear first but once you get that sorted out my post was a short cut 
Thanks.
Of the USB-enabled CDJs, which one would be the best to get if I also want to be “backwards compatible” - I.e. If I also want to be able to pick up an older, more antiquated CDJ and feel comfortable with it.
I say this because I imagine that if I went straight in with 2000 Nexus and then found myself in front of a 5+ year old CDJ in a club, I’d probably feel lost.
So I’m looking for a USB CDJ that will provide good foundations for quickly adapting to both the latest models with recordbox etc, but also older models that don’t have USB or any other ‘modern’ features.
Thank you muchly.
They all have CD slots. Play with CDs and that will be near identical to the older models
I use a CDJ2000 and a CDJ1000, it’s a PITA to manage a CD and rekordbox collection.
Just get a CDJ850/900.