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whenever something is considered industry standard, it isnt because the dj "GOD" appointed it to be. Pioneer CDJs has proven itself as a sturdy piece of equipment from the CDJ-500s up to the 1000s. The only CDJ I had problems with for the first time are the 200s. If you practice on Pioneers, it only makes sense to perform on Pioneers for your gig.
Im not saying that Pioneers make the best equipment, but if you find yourself playing on other venue's equipment, then you need to go with Pioneer. If you have the luxery of lugging around your equipment to gigs and throwing your own events, then I would say use Denons. Just be prepared that other DJs will trainwreck on your setup just because they havent used equipment other than Pioneer and that could really bust your party.
A lot of ppl complain that Pioneer on a whole arent really innovative when it comes to extra features etc. But to me, it all makes sense. You can very well end up with having CDJs and your mixer having the same looping and filter features. And if you want to get the EFX units to be extra creative, you have all these functions x 3. Its pretty obvious that Pioneer isnt going to put effects on their CDJs because if they did, why would you need to get the EFX unit for simple effects? And if you want to do serious effects, why have a CDJ with basic effects that you dont plan on using and adding more circuitry in the box itself?
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When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over. ~Karl Lagerfeld
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