![]() The pads are a stiffer rubber and also have a click to them – so they are unlike the soft rubber pads you might find on a Pioneer DJ controller or MPC. The buttons all consist of a hard plastic, with a certain clickiness that feels pretty responsive. The player has a reassuringly heavy feel as a partial result of that weight. Weight-wise, the SC5000M is about 5 lbs heavier than the SC5000 – to be expected due to the heavier platter and direct drive motor – but still comes in at a relatively lean 15 lbs. Much like the original SC5000, the build feels solid and well built consisting of a metal faceplate on an injection-molded plastic chassis. The plastic feels high quality, not flimsy, and lacks flex that you might find on cheaper units. I started this review with a single SC5000M which I used with a Rane 72 (read my review of that mixer here), and then I added an additional SC5000M and a Denon DJ X1800 Prime mixer to get the full experience a few days later (thanks, InMusic). The review below focuses mainly on the platter and how it performs and feels rather than touching upon the basic features of the overall player. The SC5000M has become a unique product in the modern DJ world: A completely standalone player, with a feature set closer to a laptop controller than a CDJ, and a spinning platter to tie it all together. ![]() With the deeper pockets of InMusic now backing the company, Denon DJ is giving the concept another shot. They had tried before with the SC3700/3900 players, and the DN-S5000 before that – but that was all as “old” Denon. With the SC5000M, Denon DJ has created pretty much the only option on the market that’s a standalone device with a spinning platter. Or perhaps, they’re simply trying to produce something different to draw people away from the Pioneer DJ juggernaut.īut all those options still requires the use of a laptop, and in the DJ world, the allure of going standalone and ditching the laptop has been increasingly attractive to many. It seems like the spinning platter is starting to make a comeback despite being decried as a “gimmick” by some DJs who have fully bought into the static cogwheel paradigm.īetween Rane’s Twelves, Numark’s NS7, NI’s Traktor S4 MK3, and Phase, companies are either seeing a demand from the market for spinning platters again. It’s now 10 years on from the last generation of spinning jogwheels.
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