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The Numark Fusion 111 is the complete DJ equipment set, optimised for professional track mixing and remixing. The whole Fusion 111 package is designed by a leading maker of DJ equipment, Numark, and consists of two TCD05 DJ CD players, one MX05 2-Channel DJ mixer and a set of Numark HF125 headphones. All the three units are manageable and are pre-wired and shipped with a sleek, durable black and sliver hard case.

The Fusion’s main attraction is its compact form factor and easy to use functional keys. You can pack it up and carry along anywhere in no time. Assembling the whole system is as easy as packing it up as the whole equipment includes completely tangle free wires. The cord length too is long enough so that your body not restricted while following the rhythm and perform interruption free track mixing. The two CD players can be used to rip music from different sources and offers intuitive controls. These two perfectly work hand in hand with the MX05 DJ mixer that has got fine controls on board to do fine tonal adjustments and microphone control. It has also got bass and treble equalization controls.

Numark Fusion 111 Attractions

• 2 TCD05 DJ CD players
• MX05 2-Channel DJ mixer
• Bright LCD display
• Bass and treble equalization
• Mic with Karaoke
• Frequency response: 20Hz to 20 kHz
• Adjustable headphones
• Fader, pitch bend, crossfader and lots more

The Denon DN-D6000 is an awesome DJ mixer / player combo that is specially designed to bolster the abilities and enjoyment of professional DJs and party lovers. Equipped with loads of functions, the DN-D6000 is the ultimate tool for rockin’ dance nights. It’s the outcome of the perfect amalgamation of technology, experience and style. The Denon DN-D6000 offers DJs real life equipment to gain full control over the acoustics and its quality. It not only delivers astonishing music but also allows its users to bend and modify the sound waves in a way they want.

The Denon DN-D6000 is designed in a simple yet impressive way. No matter whether you are a pro DJ or an amateur, the Denon DN-D-6000 is definitely for you because it does not demand any sort of technical knowledge on the user’s part. Even if you are totally alien to the music world you can understand the device’s operations and their corresponding effects in no time. The controls are intuitive and easy to slide and rotate and offer unprecedented precision over while mixing the track. You can make use of integrated tools like seamless looping, scratching, MP3 effects, C.B.R and V.B.R encoding (up to 320 kbps), ID3 tagging, cross fading, 15 sec on board sampler, 3 way BPM counter, Flanger, filter, drag start, brake, reverse and others to add jaw dropping effects to the tracks.

Denon DN-D6000 also offers a powerful and intelligent search engine. You can search for a particular track by title, artist, genre and album anytime you want. A new feature called ‘neat track’ is also included ion the system which can be used for searching a particular track from a CD that is currently playing some other track and then crossfade the two tracks of the same CD. This is very useful as you don’t have to load two different CDs for crossfading.

The history of LP12 starts in the 1970’s when it was a must have turntable. In fact your masculinity was doubted if did not have one. It was quite successful for a relatively expensive vinyl turntable then, and there were a variety of Linn and Naim systems were launched and which are still in the market. In the last ten years, LP12 has just been graded as just another addition to the already existing stock of turntables. It was quite expensive also and coasted around £4,480 pounds without cartridges.

The Linn Majik LP12 is the latest affordable version of the already existing version of LP12 turntable. It features solid base and standard armboard along with Mazak 8 platter and extremely low noise patented main bearing. This turntable is available in a variety of types and has a solid wood base board and is surmounted by a stainless steel which has the on and off buttons mounted on it. In order to get things moving, Majik LP12 turntable neoprene flat belt along with headshell and single piece carbon fiber armtube

This Linn Majik LP12 turntable features an internal power supply, Pro-Ject 9cc tonearm and Adikit MM cartridge. This latest high end turntable is highly intuitive and has an outstanding user interface. It is available in five different finishes and costs around £2000 pounds or $4000, which is obviously more than your basic and average turntable like the Numark TT 1650. It is capable of delivering outstanding sound quality. This turntable has its unique capability of bringing resolution, scale and at the same time wide bandwidth in order to rock the party.

The Rega P3-24 is a better version of the living legend Rega P3 turntable.P3-24 and delivers genuine hi-fi performance at any price. It has a highly simple and fresh design which incorporates a Medite Plinth with resin laminate overlay, low or almost negligible vibration 24V motor and, last but not least, a Rega’s RB301 tonearm. The tonearm provides extra rigidity by adding a three point mounting system and also the heavy duty phone cable which is equipped plated connectors. Rega P3-24 is quite a sleek and simple turntable which is relatively quite light weight.

Rega P3-24 turntable incorporates an impressive solid dust cover which is absolutely non-resonant and whenever the record side or the tonearm need to be changed, it just flips up gracefully with fluid motion. The setup of Rega P3-24 turntable is extremely simple and therefore it does not require any kind of extensive kit of adjustment tools just for start spinning. In order to align the cartridges, a protractor is included with this turntable. At extremely high volumes, this P3-24 turntable delivers very crisp and clear sound, and it is leaps and bounds beyond other Rega turntables like the Rega Planar 2. Rega P3-24 turntable has this quality of delivering true sound of any recording in comparison to any other type of turntable.

This P3-24 turntable from Rega is an affordable and solid unit which has the ability to reveal the sonic details as well. The package becomes all the more appealing once the company’s TTPSU power supply is added to the entire package. It gives a new life to the vinyl which sound even better when played on P3-24 turntable.

The MEP 7000 is the latest high end multi-entertainment player and controller from Pioneer that has been especially designed for mobile DJs. This multi entertainment player includes a SEP-C1 software entertainment controller. MEP 7000 has been designed with digital music in mind and is therefore capable of delivering flexible high quality solution. Although this multi entertainment player is compact and portable yet it inherits all the basic features and functions of all the known CD decks and CDJs.

This high tech MEP 7000 supports MP3, WAV, AIFF and AAC file formats along with music playback from various media sources such as CD, DVD and CD-ROM discs. In the case when there is no DJ present, this multi entertainment player can be easily setup to make use of the playlist and get on to mixing as well as playback music automatically. The MEP 7000 even features a 4.3 inch coloured LCD screen, unlike say the Mackie Control Universal Pro, and is capable of making navigation extremely simple and easy to navigate through the menu. By inserting CD-G disc into the device, it can be easily transformed into a karaoke playback displaying the playback track on the screen.

MEP 7000 supports USB connectivity which indicates that the SEP-C1 can be used a MIDI controller for the MIDI compatible computer applications. It is also equipped with high end touch sensor Jog wheel which controls various scratch sounds and thereby enhancing the scope of any DJ performance. All in all, MEP 7000 is a high end multi entertainment player from Pioneer with a multitude of features and is a boon for all the DJ players.

If you are looking for a professional DJ mixer then Atomix MP3 is the right choice. It’s the ancestor of the famous DJ mixing software known as VirtualDJ. Although further development on Atomix has been stopped, it’s still one of the most preferred DJ software programmes because of its core design and architecture.

Atomix was designed to run on PCs that have low end configuration. It puts minimum load on the system’s RAM and processor. Thus, you can use it on any machine, even minimalist netbooks like the Asus Eee PC 701. However, feature wise the Atomix is not as versatile as VirtualDJ but if you can compromise on features for a stable performance, Atomix is good. Atomix offers two decks in which you can load tracks and play them simultaneously. Besides this there are play, pause, stop, cue buttons, pitch control, mixer, 3 band equalizers, kills, volume control, gain and crossfader.

To make the mixing easy, Atomix processes the BMP automatically. You will also get lots of special functions which can be used to add extra effects to the songs. Such functions include audio effects, smart loops, mater tempo, recording and visual effects. Atomix supports two sound cards and multi-output sound cards. So you can easily split the stereo if you want. Atomix is backed by a vast library of special effects files which can be downloaded from the Internet.

We have often read and heard that simplicity is the best policy, and this statement holds true for turntables as well. The best thing about them is that they are simpler in operation, have less complications, as a result there are very slim chances of anything actually going wrong. Well, there is the argument that simple things can be good performers, because of their straightforward design and elegance as well. One of the best manifestations of simplicity in turntables would come from the Revolver Turntables from Sundown Audio.

The Revolver turntable is a belt driven turntable with an extremely small motor that spins the platter by using a thin long rubber band. The main reason for using this rubber belt is to keep the vibrations produced from the motor from getting mixed with the music while playing the record. The Revolver turntable has a unique and unusual platter, which has been shaped out of a common particle board and has less resonance than the regular aluminum or plastic. However, it does lack a USB port for transferring music like the American Audio TTD-2400. Because it is almost non-resonant it requires a non slip, thin mat for coupling with the record. Aluminium is used mainly because of its non magnetic nature, as it will not interfere with or affect the magnetic phono cartridge.

The Revolver is a simple dual speed player with simple and intuitive speed changing or controlling options. This extremely simple turntable with amazing performance and outstanding playback sound quality is quite affordable and will fit into most budgets. It is a rare and welcome thing to have such a combination where simple good looks are accompanied by the Revolver’s engineering elegance.

CUE 5 is a complete professional DJ software programme which has all the features desired by DJs, including mixing, scratching, sampling and juggling for creating the ultimate sound. This software gives you the convenience of monitoring your mix not through a pair of headphones, like the Stanton DJ Pro 3000, but also visually on your computer screen. CUE 5 comes with an exceptional array of features, combined with intuitive tools for importing and categorising the tracks, and user friendly dual deck interface. Your masterpiece mix production can be easily broadcasted to club’s audio as well as video.

CUE 5 has been specially designed to support the compatibility factor with Numark MIDI and all the external controllers, thereby enhancing its potential functionality. It debuts a new smart filter folder which has the special ability of categorising the tracks based on different criteria such as location, year, genre and many more. This software allows the user to scratch, mix, sample, juggle and interchange all the music audio, as well as video files, without using any bulky or expensive hardware. CUE supports all major file formats, including WAV, MP3, WMA and many more.

This professional DJ software is capable of not only publishing sets into both MP3s and CDs but also broadcasting these recorded sets online. Moreover, CUE 5 comes with additional features, such as smart database management, Free Frame plug in compatibility and last, but not least, a powerful new global search function. You have the option of selecting from multiple user interfaces available to suit your style of mixing. CUE 5 is a combination of excellent features with

The DN-S1000 is a small compact table top CD/MP3 player from Denon, which packs a lot of scratchability into its condensed model, and has been carefully fine-tuned and designed to meet the needs of DJs. The DN-S1000 is a package deal which offers performance, reliability, creativity and experience for all types of DJs, whether club, amateur, mobile or international. This smaller and portable package not only offers basic CD DJing features, but some high end benefits as well.

This compact and small scratch CD/MP3 player weighs around 8 pounds and measures 8.5 x 8.5 x 3.5 inches. The DN-S1000 functions without any kind of problems or digital stalls or lag-time, and is also surprisingly accurate and responsive in terms of DJing and scratching. The entire Denon DN-S 1000 system allows any user to comfortably scratch, add effects, do real time looping, play both CDs, MP3s and adjust the platter controls. It features advanced MP3 functions and effects, a pressure sensitive jog disc, in addition to four on-board effects, including echo loop, three platter effects, 2 hot starts, power on play, relay play, 2 seamless loops per discs, pitch bend, fader start control terminal, digital outputs; and finally the newly designed pin-less remote control cable.

The Denon DN-S1000 is an amazing and impressive compact scratch CD/MP3 player which will easily sneak into places where bigger music players would be cumbersome and unwieldy. There is nothing in the market that can match the quality and features offered by this compact and affordable CD/MP3 player.

Ultramixer is DJ mixing software which uses the standard dual deck display interface and allows you to mix digital music in various formats such as VMA, MP3, CDs, WAV and OGG. This ultramixer offers additional features and tools which are rarely offered by any mixing software, such as a 31 band equalizer, real time effects, hardware controller support and a sampler. All you need is a sound card and you are all set to do the real time mixing of the digital music. This mixing software supports all popular operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Ultramixer has been designed to provide a variety of transitioning and fading options, even the modification of the preset transition is also allowed. The function of the DJ turntables is replaced by two digital sound players and the vinyls are available with just a click from the File Archive. Although not quite the same experience as one would have from a real DJ turntable, like the Stanton STR 8-150, the software offers multiple extra effects and features to improve the experience. For instance, there are multiple samples and effects included in this digital mixing software, which aid in adding some extra body and texture to the songs and their smooth transitioning.

Ultramixer also provides additional features like top notch synchronising tools, a pitch adjustment tool with accurate metered tabs and a scroll bar for pitch adjustment and intuitive beat aware loop functions. It has an excellent user friendly interface and features top notch mixing and mastering tools. Best of all, this mixing software allows for customised use and allows users to use MIDI controllers such as MP3, CD decks and vinyl. Ultramixer is a powerful, strong and seamless DJ mixing software especially when set in an automated mode.