Announced today, the SC5000 Prime media player by Denon DJ has won not one, but two prestigious DJ Mag Tech awards. Victories included ‘Innovative New Product’ and ‘Ultimate Club Deck’. The SC5000 was originally announced at NAMM back in January, and since then has been receiving stellar reviews and support from top DJs like Laidback Luke, Paul Oakenfold and Tiesto.

The DJ Mag Tech Awards voting was determined by DJs and artists in attendance and judged live from DJ Mag’s London UK headquarters. Denon DJ’s International Marketing Manager, Paul Dakeyne said, “These two incredibly influential DJ Mag Tech Awards results reflect exactly what the DJ industry, the media and artists all think of the Denon DJ SC5000 Prime: It truly represents the future of professional DJ performance. There is simply nothing like it.”

As the world’s first DJ Player capable of on-board music file analysis, the SC5000 empowers users with its innovative dual-layer deck capability and an 8-inch rugged jogwheel with central display that displays either current playing track or custom artwork. It also has a high definition, hi-contrast display that enables multi-touch gestures for the ultimate in latency-free, tactile track navigation, load and playback.

Other features include:

• 24-bit/96kHz digital audio outputs
• Plays uncompressed audio formats (FLAC, ALAC, WAV)
• 8 multifunction trigger pads for Cues, Loops, Slices and Rolls
• Customizable RGB color around the jog wheel
• (3) USB and (1) SD input for music playback
• LAN output to link to up to four players

The SC5000 Prime is available to purchase everywhere for $1,899. For more information, visit Denon DJ’s website.

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