u/Nachtraaf

Vinyl DJ for 20 years I use a ENS DJ400 rotary. I recently built some custom loud speakers and wanted to do some outdoor gigs, but I didn’t wanna bring my turntables for various obvious reason.

Settled on the xdj-1000s. Got them home and immediately something did not sound right. Like frankly, they sound like shit. The mid frequencies are distorted. The highs and the upper mids are all smashed together the bass sounds poorly compressed.

A/B with a Scarlett sound card from my computer tracks sound perfect in comparison. I then A/B/C from a vinyl record of the exact same file. The record sounds great. A little bit different because of the vinyl mastering. I have to return the 1000s and get some 3000x’s.

All problems fixed. 3000x’s sound almost the same as the sound card input maybe a little more “forward” and better for club music like a good quality DAC should sound. Can’t believe pioneer is selling $1300 items with a poor quality DAC. You can get a pristine AKM chip Topping DAC for $150. Anyways, the 3000x’s are amazing in other ways compared to the cheap feeling 1000s. worth the upgrade? Probably but it’s crazy money.

Traktor user of 12 years here .... I just bought a new AlphaTheta XDJ-AZ and I'm considering sending it back. I've never played on Pioneer gear so this is a new system for me. I've only had it since Thursday.

My complaints:

Too big and heavy to be portable. I also have an ableton rig with keyboard and instruments jammed into my music space, so it leaves me feeling like I need to buy a new, dedicated DJ table for it. :/

I don't like the details of the beat grid compared to what I had in traktor. I have the update that displays all 4 decks.

I've had a hard time recreating some of favorite acapella / track mashups that were so special to me in Traktor.

Feels overpriced when I look at reviews online compared to other units.

I dove into Rekordbox and I understand it, but I honestly miss my manual system of keeping all my songs in folders that were analyzed by KeyFinder. Again, I might just be resisting change.

I am buying this setup with DJ'ing on tik tok in mind as well, so a standalone unit is ideal to alleviate that processing off the computer.

I don't play in clubs or need to be plugged into the Pioneer ecosystem even though I really wanted to be, which is why I bought this unit. lol

I'm considering the Denon Prime 4+ or just going with the Pioneer DDJ-FLX10 to stay in the Pioneer ecosystem ( I know it's not standalone.)

Any advice gang?

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