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don't sell!
There are really only two ways to get settled in to your DJ equip.
First, Subtractive: there is a buy on an impulse purchase and then you have to sell your equipment to figure out what you like the best. This is a bad method because there is the risk that you might not like mixing with only CDJs and then you'd certainly loose a bit of money switching eq a second time.
Second, Addative: You plan out your whole optimal DJ getup and then you save until you can buy it in pieces if you can't afford it all upfront. But you've learned enough about all of the other mixers to be happy with your purchase no matter what.
If you have already spent so much time learning and saving for your techs then you are definitly an Addative type of guy. Don't sell your techs, you can't do better than that for vinyl. Pick up one CDJ (if you just want to mess around a little bit, then a CDJ-100 is more than fine. I enjoy mixing on those along as well as with vinyl. The only reason that think that it's worth it to get the high-end CDJs is that quite a number of features on there are duplicated with the good mixers. You are paying for three sets of digital effects crap when you only need one on your mixer. So if you are going to spend your money wisely, then you don't want to repeat buy features that you can already use from somewhere else.
If you are more of the subtractive method, then the other thing to think about before you sell off all of your stuff, is what it means for you to be djing. You're selling off the vinyl that you started with. There is a lot of sentiment in a vinyl collection, are you so willing to part with it?
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When you dance, the DJ takes you on a journey, but he or she is usually not the focus of your experience at a club or festival or wherever you hear the music. Dancing is. Music is.
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