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It’s brilliant. It’s basically the same deal as the smaller one but takes it to another level entirely. Not evidenced by that mix, but feel that I’ll soon be able to bring my sets up a notch with it in lots of different ways.
On top of that, it’s just an enormous time and space saver. You can so quickly flick through your tracks and swipe them into a folder that’s then your box to mix your set from. Once I’ve managed to rip and sort everything, I’ll be able to spend a lot less time to get a mix together than with vinyl. Can see myself recording mixes much more often with it, but then still planning vinyl sets over longer timeframes.
It doesn’t have Spotify - neither does the other one now, as Spotify revoked access to any third parties. Feeling is that they have their own DJ offering in the works, but that remains to be seen.
It does have Tidal, though, which I’m using on a free trial. Seems to have plenty enough in the library, and is apparently better quality. It also has integrations with Soundcloud and Beatport and Beatsource is coming soon - I’ll check them both out. The only thing is, you can’t record your sets on the device if you’re streaming. I can just run it through my amp/Audacity, but it’s limiting as I need to then record it in that room and rely on the strength of the wifi in there. I’ve been enjoying jacking the Denon up to the speakers under my TV like in the pic, or some long trusted Logitec PC speakers I have. Like the smaller one, it doesn’t work well with bluetooth speakers. I don’t know why, as it’s using a wired connection, but both Bluetooth speakers I have there is a lag between the headphones and the master audio signal, making beatmatching basically impossible.
I quite want to get a set of these for the hell of it, but that would be completely unnecessary.
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