Denon DN-X1700 4-Channel Digital DJ Mixer, 20Hz-20kHz Frequency Response, Selectable Digital/Balanced, Unbalanced Master/Balanced Booth/Headphone Output

The Denon DN-X1700 is a standard matrix club mixer consisting of 4 CD and PHONO inputs, 4 digital inputs, 2 microphone inputs, 2 master outputs, booth and recording outputs and more. But it's the levels of sound quality and incorporation of forward-thinking performance features that make the DN-X1700 Professional Digital DJ Mixer the ultimate performance tool for topspeflight professionals.

High-reliability
From the minute you power up the DN-X1700, you obviously notice that this is no ordinary DJ mixer. A large, bright 3.5 inch color LCD ensures that all information can be quickly and easily identified in any condition from low-light club atmospheres to festival stages in bright daylight. Additionally, the headphone amplifier employs its own discrete transistor and provides high output power of 400mW at 40 ohms to deliver surefire monitoring in any loud environment. Each channel is complete with a 6 position Matrix source selector enabling the use of any of the 4 input sources per channel and a high-quality 60mm throw long-life conductive plastic fader. Each input channel also incorporates isolator equalizers wherein cross point frequencies can be assigned for each band in the preset menu.

USB Audio and Midi Interfaces
Ensuring that this is a fit t for every DJ is its USB Audio and Midi control. Utilizing Denon DJ's low latency ASIO driver, not only can the DN-X1700 be used as a traditional DJ mixer, it can also be utilized as a top-notch 96 kHz digital audio sound card (8 in / 8 out (4 stereo channels)) for any of today's top DJ software suites. Each channel has a single button that allows immediate switching of each channel input ut from the traditional audio signal to the USB computer audio input. Also available is a Midi layer function for controlling the mixing capabilities of today's DJ software mixers, on a channel by channel basis. Midi output is available for almost all operations and functions of the DN-X1700's top panel controls.

Unique Design
It has circuit design utilizing the latest in Digital Audio Conversion (DAC) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP). It features a 96kHz/32-bit floating digital signal processor and 32-bit digital-to-analog converter (at the Master Out) providing sound quality that is true and faithful to the original source and delivered with the highest degree of accuracy. And it doesn't end there... Every detail was considered and no corners cut in designing the DN-X1700 and its accurate sound representation. The mic amp, with its own discrete transistor configuration, incorporates a low equivalent input noise of 127 dB while even the phono amplifier has an 89 dB signal-to-noise ratio, all due to its own discrete FET circuit configuration. And at the heart of it all, the power. The DN-X1700 employs two extremely high-end, low-noise R-core power transformers for the analog circuit with Denon DJ custom designed electrolytic capacitors. Furthermore, film capacitors designed to enhance sound quality and high-precision metal film resistors round out the power circuit, resulting in sound quality that is overwhelmingly high and breathtakingly accurate.

Unlike any other DJ mixer in its class, this is equipped with a high performance 32-bit DAC (digital analog conversion) at the au - dio output stage. Even the world's best-selling DJ mixers, CD / DVD players and home theater systems boast only 24-bit DA conversion; 32-bit conversion provides additional "headroom" in the conversion process, providing an analog output signal with greater resolution and frequency response. The resulting ultra wideband output signal makes the DN-X1700 one of the best sounding pieces of digital audio equipment ever made for the DJ market.

Headphone monitoring and the output sound, power it produces are essential for all DJs alike, which is why no costs were spared in this important area either. The X1700 offers a very High Power and Ultra Clean Headphone Circuit with Built-In Discrete Transistor Push-Pull drive. This low Impedance drive buffer circuit is generally found in very expensive studio boards, which covers an array of Pro Headphones on the market with an impressive spec of 400mW at 40 ohms. R-core is unique rectangular and compact type of transformer developed by Japanese engineers. It has the ability to mutually cancel each other's magnetic flux by means of balanced, symmetrical winding of the coils. With this winding method the leakage flux can be kept to a minimum amount. As a result, the core's magnetic resistance is very low, it has absolutely no gap in its magnetic paths and the cross section is uniform. This permits the Denon DJ engineers to place this very efficient transformer close to critical electronic components that are noise sensitive without any negative electrical effect.

Flex Fader
Cross and Channel Fader, quality, feel, performance and reliability is critical in a design of this caliber. That's why Denon chose the studio quality 60-mm Alps K Series for the channel faders, which offers a silky smooth, but balanced firm feel. The cross fader which Denon call, flex fader is one that has been proven in previous Denon mixers. The tension of the flex fader can be ad - justed to your desired feel directly from the front panel.

Two Built-in Effects Processors
Adding to the digital realm of the new DN-X1700 is its two built-in digital effects processors. Specific parameters for each of the 11 different effects can be linked to the beats per minute (BPM) of every track passing through the mixer. Each effects processor offers its own set of controls such as, Dry/Wet, Parameter, Low/High pass filter, Beat or Time adjustments, TAP, Manual and Auto BPM, Pre Efx Cueing and ON/OFF. In addition to the new Beat Breaker effect, each effects processor has other popular effects including delay, transform, flanger, filer, phaser, reverberation, looping, reverse looping and pitch shift. Each channel has two effects sends (1 and 2) which allows audio from a single channel to be routed to each effects processor, individually. In addition, you can use an external effects unit and route the Send/Return signal through either effect 1 or 2.

Effect Menu
The 2 Independent Effectors with 12 Effects available for each that are Delay, Echo, Trans, Flanger, Filter, Phaser, Reverb, Loop, Rev. Loop, Pitch Shift, Beat Breaker, Send/Return.

Beat Breaker Effect
This effect modifies the beat of the music signals by breaking down each quater note of musical bar into 4 separate sections, based on the BPM setting. Each pattern, consisting of 4 beats, results in 16 individual sections. Beat Breaker replaces each of the four sections with the selected pattern and copies the attack signals accordingly .

Details of operation
The beat patterns consist of 16 blocks and when these blocks are lit in the display, the sound will be replaced by the initial sound of the beat. When this effect is ON, the blocks that are active light up blue.

Preset Storing
Another innovation applied to the this mixer is the Preset Import/Export feature. A feature found in many of today's top digital live consoles, this process allows the user the ability to store all of the settings of their personal device to a USB thumb drive or external hard drive and then reupload those settings to any other DN-X1700 they ever gig on, drastically cutting down on setup time prior to a performance.