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I was planning an upgrade to the XZ this year. Its been put on hold due to needing a new laptop. Went for the dell xps 13. Expensive, but a great piece of kit.

Whatever happened to a 500 quid set up?

#okboomer

    Kids these days can get a good start with a 200 € controller and a laptop. And build from that.

    …give it 6 months, loads of people will have the 3000’s at home IMO

    Dan it’s way cheaper now than it was 20 years ago. my first set up was 2×1200s and a shitty mixer for $1500 and records were $15 a piece (that’s all CAD). now you can pick up a controller and either illegally download tracks for nothing or pay a small fraction of what tracks used to cost.

      …actually this is a very good point, relative to what I used to spend across a year in my vinyl days, these are probably a bit of a bargain

      • Dan replied to this.

        Yeah, agreed on the costs of vinyl compared to digital etc.

        Pioneer will have spent a lot of time working on that price point (the industry won’t baulk at it in the slightest, they’re buttons compared to some of their investments), they have a very good idea about what their consumer will and wont spend.

        Remember the pages of deals at the back of DJ Mag back in the day, technics with an MRT60/Vestex/PA/Sound system ……buy on credit with about 30% apr. Entry into the world of DJing in those days was a very expensive business , and don’t get me started on import double packs bought just for a 3minute dub. 😕

        A lot of comments said why would you buy these, and a mixer, instead of a XZ.

        Although I guess those comments miss the fact that the CDJ-3000 is not meant for home use.

        • Amps replied to this.

          Homegrove A lot of comments said why would you buy these, and a mixer, instead of a XZ.

          Because it looks like a Fisher Price toy?