Thanks so much. I took your advice and made my decision in favor of the Pioneer. The controller is on its way to me. Honestly, I am so inexperienced that “workflow” is something I had to extrapolate. I imagined a future me, which was fun. Manual beat-matching is something that rarely comes up with the downtempo lounge that I am usually asked to play, so what good would the long throw pitch faders of the Numark do me when I could definitely use the filter fade of the Pioneer? It came down to tiny details like that. Plus, the little 45 rpm adaptor image on the Numark jogwheels got on my nerves for some reason, like I was 11 years old again, listening to the Monkees. Thanks for everything. I really enjoy the positivity of this forum.