Denon

[tramonte]

hey guys,

I'm considering getting a cd player and am looking at somethingg like the Denon 3500.

anyone had any experience with them? i'll probs go with denon as i reallyy cant justify paying over a grand for a cd player (it'll mainly be an addition to my vinyl addiction, not main source of music).

Any thoughts?

[Skank]

dj warehouse in leichart has a set up of 3500 and 3700 go get ya hands on em and let your fingers decide

[Tomy]

i'm not 100% which model but i played on denon cdj's before. It had some really crap scratch mode thing?? then only way you can mix with it is by using these 2 buttons above the pitch fader so you cant use the platter to move the track faster/slower

but not sure if its the same one. i reconmend paying $50 to hire it on a saturday night and have a play around before buying it

[tramonte]

Yeah I might just spend an hour playing with one in the store.

I think they have modes though so you can change from vinyl mode to something similar to pios.

[tubby]

you can turn off the spinning platter, and also change the cueing mode so it's like a pio cdj.

3700 is a little strange though, it has wave display but if you are playing off a cd, you have to save the wave display first, it can't build it on the fly. I guess it's really a midi controller with the cd player thrown in almost as an afterthought

[tramonte]

yeah not looking at the 3700, I think the 1200 or 3500 will be all i need, don't need mass bells and whistles.

[ruggs]

1200 look sick thats what im looking at getting...djwearhouse has 2 and a mixer for 1700ish

[tramonte]

ended up getting the cdj-800 mk2

preferred the feel of the platter compared to the denons.

[Genetic]

you won't be dissapointed man, sometimes i wish i had the 3 hot cue/loop buttons of the 1000's but once you get the hang of the cue memory funtion it is really easy to do the same thing minus the loop

[Skank]

good choice man you didnt happen to get it from djwarehouse on sat did ya?

[tramonte]

:wink:

[ruggs]

hows it go?better than the denons?you just get one?

[tramonte]

I prefer the feel of the platter compared to the denons,

I can see the denons have a lot more features, but that doesn't bother me (I'm coming from vinyl, how little features can you get lol).

It does what I need it to do, I just need to get used to cdj's.

Yeah I only got 1.

[Genetic]

it's easy to get used to and coming from vinyl you should have it in next to no time:D

[ruggs]

cool goodluck with getting used to it and let us know how ur progress goes