THE BEST DJ MIXER? - XONE PX5 REVIEW 

Thanks for the tour of the PX5! The illuminated knobs are indeed fantastic. The reason we don't see them elsewhere, or as in this case, in limited numbers, is basically to keep the final product more competitively priced & profitable. HOWEVER: If manufacturers get the message that we customers / a critical mass of customers are ready to pay for illuminated knobs - someone will make it available. In the case of bigger clubs & bigger event rental companies, they'll afford the extra cost for sure. From a production point of view, illuminated knobs means a lot of work! Every knob needs an RGB LED (ideally speaking), every RGB-led needs its fair share of code (RGB-leds are the most code intense), RGB-LED drivers&circuitry will be needed, circuit-boards needs to be redesigned/adapted, power-circuitry must be beefed up, power consumtption will increase (USB-only operation compromised?) the knobs need to be redesigned to guide the light, front-plates of existing hardware / new hardware must be re-designed/adapted, etc etc! We'll see who will do it first! My bet is either Denon, Roland or Native Instruments as I think they're the most innovative names in the industry. Roland LOVES to innovate, and Always find their customers seemingly regardless of pricetag. Native Instruments also loves to innovate, but they don't have the resources, size & experience of Roland. And they don't want to be percieved as "Too expensive" So: Once someone else proves the RGB-knobs are in demand, -They WILL follow! Denon are out there to set new standards - they can, and I think they want to go RGB-knobs. It's clear that they're on a mission to beat Pioneer, and oh boy, I tell you - they'd love to be first of all! Pioneer seems to have gone complacent. They should've been first. They can do it, but they seem to be quite busy counting dollar-bills. No matter who will do it first, I can't wait! And it's like you say Jon: this is the future!

Definitely a contender for an upgrade over my xone23

5 years later, how do you feel about this mixer? very curious! thank you!

Can u please make a review about the xone 96

I’m getting the Denon Sc6000’s I was debating this mixer or the Denon x1850 mixer please advise

"Competition is better for us DJs" - well it also brings up the price... DJ-Mixers are sooooo expensive compared to desk recording units

"and that's pretty much it"....haha!! Barely even scratched the surface of the featureset for this mixer. I used to own one. It is a BEAST of a mixer!!! In all reality I should have kept it, but I couldn't justify keeping it after I bought the Xone:96. However, it can definitely hold it's own against the best out there.....even the X96 in some respects. The PX5 is more of an instrument than a typical DJ Mixer. You can get deep w' it.

The 3-band isolator EQ is it the same isolator I will find on a rotary mixer?

You missed the zone db4 which has mostly illuminated knobs and is more advanced than this

how do you consider the channel crossfaders? in each mode it seems to me that the signal drops a lot even when the crossfader is moved slightly

This has an internal midi clock?

i own this mixer, besides the fact that it is onlt a 3 part eq and only 1 filter unlike the xone 92 it as good mixer and the first analogue allen & heath mixer that include a built in effect section, i would make the eq knobs with less sustain tough

Would that mixer be useful on a studio with hardware synths? Connect the hardware synths on and plug it on the sound card input.

Am I crazy or does it seem like this mixer was rejected for some reason? I can't find too many videos on it, there's very few being sold after market, and most shockingly, styleflip doesn't have the model available. And they have skins for everything! Anyway. Mine comes in Monday. Lol.

why did you buy a second mixer? what are you going to do with the Denon mixer?

If I'll connect this mixer to traktor scratch pro, will it use internal (digital) mixing or signal is going out per channel via Digital-to-Analog converter and then mixer mixes analog outputs? Thank you!

Richie Hawtin and Loco Dice both switched to Model 1 mixers (Richies own brand). Also the Xone 92 is Analog, I believe this one is Digital so not exactly the same sound.

How does it compare to a Xone DB2?

Would you prefer this over the Denon X1850?

Pokemon

Sinchronices the fx of the xone px5 with the BPM of Denon 5000 well?