CDJ2000NXS2 price reduction due to new competition?

Well forget about that one, Nxs2 are, well Nxs2s and not SC 5000s
Pioneer wont cut prices because of this new toy from denon, or should i write, DENIN!

It will take much more then fancy colors and a couple of guys (Tiesto, LL, Heldens, Okenfold) to get that stuff up to par with Pioneer. Those guys may be big but never as big as they used to be.

Pioneer has alot of aces and jokers up their sleeves, you just watch!

Who ever said that its cheap to be a dj?

This is a repost from another thread, but I'll share it here as well;

There seems to be some confusion in the DJ community surrounding the release of Denon DJs new SC5000 player in the PRIME series of products. For reasons unknown, the new player from Denon DJ is being compared to the Pioneer DJ lineup of ‘similar looking’ products, like the CDJ-2000NXS2. I would like to point out some of the flaws in that line of thinking, and try to cast some light on what the new player from Denon DJ is.

First of all – let me just start off by saying that I, along with all DJs out there, welcome competition in the DJ world. Competition is a healthy thing, it pushes innovation and new thoughts, as well as stimulating prices in the markets. For that reason alone, we should all welcome Denon DJs effort in trying to enter a new market. I personally wish the all the luck in the world, and regardless of their success – I am sure it has been an eye opener to some of the guys in marketing- and RnD departments at Pioneer DJ and others around the world.

Pioneer, and not just the DJ part, has always delivered an exceptional build- and craftsmanship quality in their products. Their high-end devices has always relied on in-house developed circuitry and ASICs, rather than going for the cheaper OEM route. The results speak for themselves, and this is how Pioneer DJ has held the throne for so long, virtually without competition.

Denon DJ has taken another route, and a route taken before by so many others. Rather than spending a fortune on developing own circuitry, processors and ASICs – they’ve opted for the embedded PC route – relying on a generic x86/64 architecture to run their new devices. This gives access to a plethora of readily available software- and driver codes, and development can be done using well known tools. There is nothing wrong with choosing this route, but the choice of running a system on an embedded PC means you have very specific hardware- and software considerations and limitations.

Durability as fault-tolerance is the first thing that comes to mind. As we all know, a PC requires an operating system to work. Where Pioneer DJ can customize every little aspect of their chips and software/drivers to an extremely close-knit – Denon DJ has to rely on constraints of both the x86/64 hardware architecture, and the OS that runs on top of it. In the fight of integrated circuits versus embedded x86/64 – the latter never wins when it is put to the test of durability and torture.

The new Denon DJ SC5000 player is essentially an integrated 2 deck controller. It is a PC with a touch monitor display, two soundcards, memory and IO ports for jogwheel, buttons and stuff. It all runs on a PCI bus architecture. While it have the visual similarities to say a CDJ-2000NXS2, and share many of its features - the SC5000 is a PC. If you’d like to compare SC5000 to something from Pioneer DJ, the closest thing I can think of are the DDJ series controller that relies on a PC with software to work.

I was hoping Pioneer might respond but I guess they can't and either way it may be too early.  My question was regarding a price drop nothing else. @Tord I will reply on the other post...Thx

The price increase was linked to Brexit and the falling value of the £ against the $. 

Basically it was an excuse to put the price up - but I don't recall the price ever falling when the £ was stronger against the $ 

Don't hold your breath for any form of price reduction! 

As moderators, we are not privy to this type of information.  But personally, I would be surprised to see a price drop.