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International DJ Expo 2005

We'll after having taking the walk though the International DJ Expo in Atlantic City, NJ I can only say I wish I brought more money because the prices on the latest DJ equipment were UNREAL.

But before I get to that I just want to give you a quick rundown of who was there, that I noticed anyway.

Denon had the most attractive booth (if you can read between the lines) and their equipment was set up in small kiosks. Most of their equipment was CD turntables.

Stanton has a similar set up and talking with Jim, the Stanton rep, he said the reason for the image change and new look and feel to the equipment was because research told them that branding was the way to go in order to make a stable name for themselves and not just another DJ equipment manufacturer.

The Pioneer booth seemed empty for some reason even though their biggest product boost was their DVJ-X1 DJ but there was no demonstration of it! I was kind of disappointed with Pioneer.

Right across the isle was Ortofon were they had a demonstration of 4 DJ's using Ortofon needles on Numark gear. Now that was exciting. Here are some pictures from that booth.

If you don't see the pictures click here for the online version of this newsletter.

There wasn't much else worth taking pictures of sorry to say.

Numark really disappointed me because they were not showcasing their newest arrival in the in Numark iDJ Mixing Console. They really has a dismal booth from my perspective.

Gemini almost had me for a second. I talked to the rep but he was really pushy. I took the their CD set up for a spin anyway. It was all white with chrome accents. Initially the look was cool but it got boring real fast especially after using their CD player and mixer. The faders were nice and loose but it still felt cheap in my hands.

Mike at the Rane booth really had me sold though. He gave me personal tour of their new Empath mixer with knobs for finer mixing and
Rane Serato Scratch Live which after seeing it in action and playing with it it has Final Scratch beat hands down. From the user friendly interface to the live support. It was very easy to pick up. He said that only had one more left out of 12 they initially brought with them. And at $500 a pop they really made out like bandits.

The rest of the expo were smaller manufacturers of digital products. I may have missed them but I was really disgruntled when I didn't see Technics or Vestax. There were alot lighting and small vendors trying to sell their stuff and less than a handful of speaker manufacturers. But Cerwin-Vega definitely made their presence known. Talk about BOOM! BAP!.

Prices at the DJ Expo

Here are some examples. The Shure M44-7H cartridge usually sells for $99 and on a good day for about $80 at Overstock.com but at the show it was only $65. I picked up the N44-7Z replacement needle. I'll give you a report on it after I use it a bit.

Another door buster was at the Stanton booth where the Pro 3000 headphones were selling for $65 if memory serves me correctly. The Stanton M 304 mixer was also selling for $200. Their
T-120C was only $265 or close to it.

I saw people walking out with Pioneer CDJ-800's 2 and 4 at a time. These were the best prices I've ever seen. I will most definitely come with a phat wallet next time. If you didn't make it this year you should need to go next year.

Now I didn't sign up for the workshops because I didn't want to commit myself before I saw the expo. But overall I was sold on it and next time I hope to attend the entire expo, workshop and all. One word of caution, children are not allowed in the expo.

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Long live the DJ.

Ben Ellis,
The-DJ-Equipment-Guide.com

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