when i first bought the denon's, a cd got stuck in one of them (it was the first cd i played), so i took it back and they gave me a cdj-1000 for loan til i got mine fixed. so for about 4 months i played on 1 denon and 1 cdj-1000. so i know the diference fairly well, and it's pioneer all the way. when i play out i play on either pio 800's or the pio cmx3000 cd players, and i would rather have either of those pio's over the denons. my main reason is that the denon has shit for pitch control, i dont care what the spec says, they cant hold pitch like pioneer's do, that and there's all sorts of glitches with cue's and such, i'll set a cue and it will only play for 30 seconds after that, then start repeating those 30 seconds, or even just stopping completely, so you have to re-set your cue, not a big problem until it does that when your actually playing your mix out, then you feel like smashing them with a hammer cuz it decided to do it to you at the worst possible time, that and the mp3 mode always fucks up and starts glithcing and not wokring after about 3 tracks played, pretty weak for a $850 deck.
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