A few different things, but the main issue I had with Denon had to do with Engine DJ…I just couldn’t deal w’ them removing support for external NTFS/APFS file systems on your preparation drive. If I can’t use the native library software, then I would rather not use the hardware associated with it. That really was a MAJOR move backward in my opinion! I did end up buying a single SC6000M though. It’s something I use for fun. My whole workflow isn’t dictated by it, so the deck having this or that essential feature isn’t really important to me anymore. When they get around to improving upon the (hardware/software) experience, that’s cool, but it’s not as detrimental to sanity as it was before, haha!
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True, but the things the CDJ line does (even the CDJ1000), they do it way better than Denon’s Engine series. I chose Denon because they had more features, but along the line I discovered that many of those features are “half baken”: “platter hold” + CUE not implemented, shift + “press loop encoder” not implemented, loops that sometimes tend to be disable when you press CUE, pressing CUE disables the sync, the moving platter on the M series which introduces a whole lot of awkwardness, and a whole lot more that makes the Engine platform feel really unfinished.
You won’t discover that sort of unfinished feeling on the CDJ line, from the legacy CDJ1000 mk1 to todays CDJ3000, they feel like very intuitive finished products with (almost) no bugs or awkward behavior, offcourse within their featureset. Up until the Denon DN-2100f Denon had that solid feeling too. The 4500 had some minor loose ends, but now with the Engine line, boy, the list is endless. And I’m not talking about colored waveforms. I’m talking about merely reliably cueing up a track using industry standard gestures, or becoming unresponsive in the middle of your DJ set!
Compare it to a car: you may have a state of the art electric car, with autopilot, big LCD displays, DAB radio, Apple Carplay, GPS, distance sensors, lane assistance, and so on. But if this means that the (steer by wire) steering wheel stops working from time to time, you are better of buying a car with a solid servo and a humming V8, regardless of any extra features.
Denon has the potential to bring down Pioneer from its throne, but unless they start paying attention to the little things, they wont succeed… And thats probably why they lost the battle to Pioneer anyway…
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All valid points, Y’all, but we should keep it there…‘they’ don’t like it when we go too far off topic.
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Mwah sometimes yes. I might move this out of “show booth” to “discuss booth” though. 
You might, and probably rightfully, no offense taken when you do that. JWill would just close the topic, which is another deal…
But look, as long as I don’t feel Denon is getting it’s act together regarding enough dev-resources and allocation of these resources , I will keep my voice getting heard. I’ll try to do that in a mature and constructive way (allthough I may miss that mark sometimes, I’m only Human After All…). If you read anything about customer relations, the fact that I do this means I still care about Denon, and want them to succeed. Matters would be much worse when I would remain silent about it, and just sell my Denon gear, which means I would not give a damn about Denon anymore. In the first case Denon could still convert me to a brand ambassador, in the latter case all is lost.
The fact that Denon representatives silence such comments (by ie closing a topic) means that Denon has no clue about how customer relations work, and is just an insult to those customers who take the time and effort to write down how they feel about certain features and products.
And I have to be honest: If today I would buy a pair of media players again, I would just buy Pioneer, despite that costing me 1500-2000 euros more. I’ll say even more, 2 months ago I was looking around for a sequencer in a dawless setup: I avoided Akai harder than COVID, just because it’s an InMusic brand. The only reason I still care and put effort into this forum is that I don’t want to loose money by selling my players second hand…
Anyway, I’ll refrain from commenting offtopic now
I will not silence critical voices and tbh this specific topic can’t really go off-topic.
However, this topic was meant to be filled with lots of pictures, so last year I made a spin-off topic for the bigger discussions about it. 
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I’ve finally got some Denon gear in my home booth, been using the Prime 2 for gigs for just under a year. The idea here is to get some 3 deck mixing in Serato. I made the stands myself from 18mm plywood and they need a couple of tweaks to get them in the right place (base plate butted up against the 1210 feet)… overall happy with the setup though, I’ve got space for my NAS and router in the hollows behind the uprights too.
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Moved post to here, where this one belongs 
I always wondered why there are 2 "Show us your DJ booth threads. This one is under DJ Lunge traktor for some reason
Someone tagged this one with a Traktor tag early on. The other thread is for gear discussions that result from this thread, this one is supposed to just be pics with minor commentary.
Traktor tag removed accordingly. Not needed anymore imho.
I opted for the idea to make a side-chain topic to have the original topic full of pics (plus some brief comments) and the other one to discuss extensively about the home booth.
Back on-topic: Less text and more photos, peeps!! 
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If you were to set those decks at an angle would they operate normally?
Beautiful setup. Super Clean. Love the accent
Love this … full swing pro setup.
Thumbs up on those Dateqs! Vooral die vibe is erg bijzonder!
Finally got my Lucia-X in, set up, and tidy. And, yes, @STU-C , those are KRK Ferrari Grey studio monitors. Due to space constraints, I just couldn’t fit the speakers I wanted that would really make the Lucia-X shine. But, a friend of mine who has a CNC machine is in the process of building me some custom speakers that will fit my very limited space. I live in a tiny apartment, so my setup has to be in my bedroom…I literally have no choice in the matter. Anyway, I am really happy with this turntable focused setup.
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Looks awesome, i would enjoy mixing on there no doubt, perfect for home DJing too with the techs 
One piece of advice that I’ve just learnt myself recently, get a cheap 8” sub (I bought a Presonus one for £150) and it will bring your monitors to life, I tried using the focal shape 50s I bought on their own and it was just ruining them. I’d say that small investment does far more for a setup than almost any level of monitor.
I crossed it over slightly into the mids and run it fairly low, just to take the strain off the drivers, more as a compliment than really trying to smash the bass out (that would result in my clothes on the front lawn lol)
Made space on my ikea shelf in one of the pods, it fits perfectly
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Yeah, I have a 10" KRK for my other setup, and it made a HUGE difference. I was thinking of getting the 8" variant of the KRK, but I’ll definitely look into the Presonus. I do have the space to the left side of this desk to fit the 8" KRK, but the Presonus fitting into one of the unused cubbies is definitely something to consider.
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