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As far as I know, they don't have CDJ-800s. They have 1000s, 700s, 500s, and 100s. I would not suggest buying the 700 or 500s for one simple reason. They are both top loading and therefore you are prone to something that you are not with the 100 and 1000--moving parts on the outside of your deck. These can break off, get messed up etc, and I wouldn't get either of them for just that reason. Now with the 1000 out, there is no reason to want to 700s anymore unless price is a major issue, but IMO, I'd rather have the 100s than the 700s. The 700s have some cool features, like a sampler onboard, headphone monitoring, and cue correction (fastforward by frame instead of by time), but honestly, how many of these features are you going to use? Not the headphone monitoring if you have a mixer...there is no need, and if you have a pioneer mixer, then chances are you already have the sampler. This leave frame searching. Is it worth $400 extra over the 100? Not for me it isn't--and not with the fact that it's more fragile than the 100. I like getting some of the best eq out there, and I save for it, but I don't feel the need to be frivalous either.
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