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It boils down to XDJ vs Turntables. It’s really a matter of personal preferences. For turntables, will you be interested in scratching, beat juggling and other turntablism techniques? If not, perhaps the more feature rich XDJ might be for you. Also, don’t forget, you will need to buy timecode vinyl for whichever software you are going to use.

If you decide to go with #1 though, why do you want the DDJ-SP1? The only thing it adds is Serato support and physical cue buttons. Do you want to only use Serato? Or perhaps you want the physical buttons? It certainly seems like a rather convoluted setup to get the functionality of a controller!

So why not get a unit with all the features, the DDJ-SZ? It pretty much has everything in one simple package, is made for Serato, which means general setting up is a breeze, and would probably cost much less. The only major difference is the lack of touchscreens.

The difference really only appears when you try to mix 2 wildly different bitrates together, e.g. 128 – 320; Consistency with bitrates matter much more.

Truth of the matter is few people who go to party actually have the ability to determine if a track is playing at what quality. I bet those who do are at home listening to music on their audiophile set up instead!

Volume does not determine the quality of the track, I’ve heard loud 32kb tracks sound normal in a club setting, even when it sounded terrible on my prosumer grade headphones. Please don’t try that unless in desperate circumstances of course. I personally think strictly in average club settings 256 should be sufficient, can’t say for big world-renown clubs.