Afro Monk

We all know that Technic 1200s and Pioneer CDJ-1000s are the standard in most clubs today.

Pioneer announced today their new CDJ-2000 & CDJ-900! They’ve upped their ante and put some serious work into these new CDJs.

The first thing you’ll notice is on their new flagship CDJ-2000 is an enormous 6.1″ full color screen @ 480×234!

The main features that stand out to me about the screen are the addition of the showing of the wave data, needle dropping, and advanced info shown about track including album art.

One feature that is available on both now is Pro DJ Link. You now have the ability to connect up to four CDJ-2000/900s to each other and use one source of music. Another big addition to the new line is HID controls which allows the CDJs to connect naively to software like Scrach Live, Traktor and Cross2 without time-coded discs.

One of the last features I want to talk about is Beatgrid. This is ultimately Quantizing for DJs. It will now make sure your cue points are set exactly where you’d want them for you automatically and on beat.

There are many other features added to both of the new CDJs but these are the ones I find worth mentioning.

Now my only complaint I find about these beautiful additions… The price.

CDJ-2000: $2,150
CDJ-900: $1,600

Remember the CDJ-900 does not sport the new LCD screen.

They will be released in December of 2009.

For more information check out http://www.pioneerprodj.com/