Feature:
I love that it can take various USBs, devices and more. Plenty of ports. The manual is a little off-handed, with lots of leaps in assumption. I dig the crate option, could use maybe a better dial to get through stuff.
Quality:
I had some glitches during play that scared me. Not the horror stories I've heard of, but not exactly endearing either. It's a very light unit, mostly plastic, so beware. It's very pretty and not a space hog, which I appreciate.
Value:
It's pretty costly for its workmanship, but it saves you a lot of grief ad lifting if it works right.
Desirability:
It's pretty, and the sceen is nice. I'm hesitant to run with it by itself at a gig until I get a bug-free month out of it, but it's sharp.
Sound:
The sound on this is very strong. If you've ever just tried plugging an iPod into a mixer and goign, you'll know tha the sound is suspect at best. This fixes that, giving you clean sound AND EQ on both channels to compensate.
Ease of Use:
After it loads your iPod, you're good to go (assuming it reeads everything on your iPod, which mine did not). It's not very intuitive; it took some serious manual diving to figure out how to do what should be quick functions. The cue actually seems a bit counter-intuitive to traditional cueing. On my traditional mixer I hit a cue button and that's it. Here I have to switch a dial (that is on the front and NOT the top; bad) and then push a couple of buttons to cue.
Support:
Have a request in to the company about not reading all of my iPod now. We'll see what happens. Until then, I found the experience of emailing them about it fine and easy to do. We'll see if they actually respond.
Overall:
This is my first experience with a straight-digital DJ rig, so I appreciate the work that went into it and it seems head and shoulders over it's previous incarnation. And needing only one iPod is almost worth half of the price alone. That said, I worry that it's a little obtuse, not very friendly to the casual DJ at all.
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