So far I don’t understand the purpose of SC Live 2 and 4: is it a new product or do they replace Prime 2 and 4 respectively?
And why don’t they include an internal bay for HD/SSD? And why do they have an obsolete USB 2.0 port instead of 3.0? Imagine a person who has a 500GB HD full of music and connects it to this precarious USB 2.0 port… imagine how slow it is to read the data…
“Oh, use a thumb drive…”. Well, if I find a 1TB one at an affordable price, it might be… but it’s totally unfeasible…
And it’s a pity that the Prime line was discontinued… Denon could make an “MK2” version of them… Anyway, there are companies that the product development department leaves a lot to be desired in some points…
Most of the time, it barely reaches half of that fee amount. Speed depends on many factors. Particularly, I don’t think it’s suitable for external HD/SSD, because HDs require more energy and most USB 2.0 ports don’t have enough, causing interruptions. USB 2.0 can provide up to 500mA (not enough for most high performance hard drives), USB 3.0 provides 1A. Of course this is indifferent when using SSD.
Normal laptop HDD (2,5") don’t. If they do, they’re ■■■■. And it makes 0 sense to use a high performance drive for that (in fact it makes 0 sense to build a high performance hardware drive for laptops since about 8 years ago when 2,5" SSDs became affordable). 3,5" drives cant live of 4,5W (900mA for USB 3) either, need external power supply of about 10W anyway.
For SSDs it becomes far more relevant, since speed and power could be higher when actually utilising the speed. But probably only for High performance PCIe SSDs. those are definitely over 2,5 and often times over 4,5W.
I think it’s rather the entry level version of Prime 2 and 4. So Live is “middle class”, Prime gear is “premium and standalone gear” and Numark and other licenced or in house inMusic companies will deliver on the “entry level class” products, I guess
After using the SC Live 4 with a high-speed SD Card, I didn’t notice the need for an internal SSD… even though the SD Card is much more practical for me to update my music: I just need to take it out of the equipment and insert it into my computer. If the equipment had an internal SSD, I would have to take it out of the case, put it on the table, turn it on, connect it to the PC and only then transfer the data…
But one thing that intrigued me is: why in the SC Live manual, in the specs, do they say that it has a bay for an internal SSD? Was it a typing error? Or does it have it, but you have to disassemble the equipment to install it? I’m curious now…
Also, on Prime 4 you don’t have to take out the internal drive - you connect the unit with a USB cable and start it in computer mode to access the internal drive using your PC
Yes, that’s what I meant. But the work of picking up the equipment, placing it on a table, turning it on, connecting it to the PC, etc. is greater than simply picking up an SD Card or a pendrive. But although an SSD bay could have been implemented, it would have been very welcome.
