New gear for 2026

:backhand_index_pointing_up:Yup :backhand_index_pointing_up:This :backhand_index_pointing_up:

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The good news is that the U.S. government FCC is back open, so that won’t be an impediment. Two new entries appeared, but not what we’re looking for.

2025-07-16 Y40-TMD1 16 Channel Compact Mixer with Bluetooth. = Alto TMD16
2025-05-29 Y40-LDMK 7 piece e-kit with BT and mesh = Alesis drum kit

I think these were both already released, so It may be that products are kept confidential beyond their release date and we won’t have any clue they’re coming. Perhaps the Akai MPC Live III was an exception.

Yes thats the one i recall seeing

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Don’t get me wrong, the Denon Prime 4 is a great product as a standalone controller, but I have to admit that, in my case, version 4.2.0, the waveform slows down every few seconds, and song searches sometimes take longer than usual, as I mentioned above. Last Saturday I sold my Prime 4 and I’m not sure whether to buy a 4+ or wait for a new controller to replace them. For now, my SC6000 works perfectly; it doesn’t have the slowdowns of my old Prime 4, and it finds songs in a flash, even with the same library of over 20,000 tracks.

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The 4+ has exactly the same internal hardware as the 4, so not sure why you’d buy it if you just sold your 4.

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That surprises me – I also use the Prime Go+ with Soundswitch. Everything works perfectly without any dropouts or other problems. However, I use 320kbps MP3 files. My entire library (5,500 tracks) consists of stems played from a USB 3.2 stick.

As far as I can tell, they released the Prime 4 and 4+ under the same FCC ID. The same for the Prime Go and Go+. If anyone has a pair, it would be interesting to know for sure. The conglomerated manual online doesn’t list those ids.

If true, then I would assume there are very little technical differences.

Of course, this doesn’t get us any closer to the answer to “new gear before 2026”.

The Prime 4+ already exists so not sure what that’s about. Unless it’s a firmware update?

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I was thinking it a new update or sumtin else like a new prime 4+ ultimate lol,we hav to wait n c

:rofl: That was a page that was released in 2023 and never updated since according to the Way Back Machine.

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anyone having this issue to download the new update?

Hi all - Cloudflare is currently down and also affecting our systems.

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Someone at Cloudflare today…

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thx for the info

the cloudfare it working now

That’s quite an underwhelming update given it’s been several months since the last minor changes.