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Equipment catalogue

DJ equipment:
everything at a glance.

Every product our buying guide recommends — as a catalogue you can filter by setup, category and price range. No affiliate links, no daily prices: just what it is, who it is for and what speaks against it.

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41 products

Recommended
AlphaTheta
€100 to €200
Most beginners: a solid base, rekordbox-compatible, plenty of learning material.
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Recommended
AlphaTheta / Pioneer DJ
€200 to €350
Anyone heading towards scratching and open format who works with Serato.
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Recommended
AlphaTheta / Pioneer DJ
€200 to €350
Anyone who wants a layout that matches the club setup from day one.
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Recommended
Sennheiser
€100 to €200
Anyone who wants headphones that last for years and have been in every DJ booth.
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Recommended
Audio-Technica
€100 to €200
Anyone who also produces or prepares music and wants a balanced sound for it.
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Recommended
KRK
€100 to €200
Anyone who wants to hear cleanly at home what they are mixing. For practising, any speaker you own is fine first.
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Reloop
€350 to €600
Anyone serious about vinyl who wants a deck close to the club standard.
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Hercules
up to €100
Anyone who does not yet know whether DJing is for them and wants to spend little.
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AlphaTheta / Pioneer DJ
up to €100
Anyone who needs real DJ headphones for the first time and wants to spend little.
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AlphaTheta / Pioneer DJ
€200 to €350
Anyone who deliberately wants to learn on records and is building two turntables plus a mixer.
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AlphaTheta / Pioneer DJ
€200 to €350
Anyone connecting two turntables who later wants to play digitally via DVS too.
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Ortofon
up to €100
Anyone buying a turntable without a cartridge or replacing the one that came with it.
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Numark
€200 to €350
Anyone starting with Serato who wants large jog wheels with a display.
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Hercules
€100 to €200
Anyone starting cheap who already wants a 3-band EQ and bigger jog wheels.
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Native Instruments
€200 to €350
Anyone who has settled on Traktor and wants a controller built precisely for it.
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AlphaTheta / Pioneer DJ
€100 to €200
Anyone who wants real DJ headphones without spending HD 25 or HDJ-X7 money.
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beyerdynamic
€100 to €200
Anyone who mostly practises or produces at home and wants headphones for long sessions.
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Sony
up to €100
Anyone who wants proven headphones for little money to practise and record with.
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Yamaha
€100 to €200
Anyone who wants to hear what is really happening in the mix while practising — not what flatters.
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JBL
€100 to €200
Anyone who wants a decent monitor for little money without compromising on sound.
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ADAM Audio
€100 to €200
Anyone who wants detailed highs and works a lot with transitions and effects.
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IK Multimedia
€200 to €350
Anyone with hardly any space or practising on the road who still wants to hear what they are doing.
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Reloop
€200 to €350
Anyone starting with vinyl who doesn't want to pay club prices straight away.
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Audio-Technica
€200 to €350
Anyone who wants to listen to vinyl at home, digitise it AND make first mixing attempts.
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Allen & Heath
€350 to €600
Anyone mixing vinyl who values sound and a good filter over effects.
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Ortofon
up to €100
Anyone starting with vinyl who needs a pair of affordable cartridges.
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No longer sold new
Pioneer DJ
€100 to €200
Anyone buying second-hand who wants a device with a lot of learning material.
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AlphaTheta / Pioneer DJ
€350 to €600
Anyone already mixing who wants more channels, effects and a bigger device.
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AlphaTheta / Pioneer DJ
over €600
Anyone who plays out a lot, needs four decks and wants a unit that mirrors the club setup.
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AlphaTheta / Pioneer DJ
over €600
Anyone who wants to play like on CDJs without buying piece by piece — and leave the laptop at home.
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Native Instruments
over €600
Anyone staying in Traktor who wants four decks, stems and a device with some weight to it.
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AlphaTheta / Pioneer DJ
€100 to €200
Anyone who likes the Pioneer fit and wants headphones for many hours and many years.
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AlphaTheta / Pioneer DJ
€200 to €350
Anyone playing several times a week who wants headphones that survive that for years.
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KRK
€200 to €350
Anyone with a room that can take a big speaker and who wants to feel the bass.
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Technics
over €600
Anyone serious about vinyl who wants the deck found in almost every club booth.
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AlphaTheta / Pioneer DJ
over €600
Anyone who wants a club turntable and is looking for the alternative to the Technics.
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AlphaTheta / Pioneer DJ
over €600
Anyone who wants to run DVS with two turntables and have the club effects section at home.
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AlphaTheta / Pioneer DJ
over €600
Anyone learning to scratch who wants to use Serato with turntables (DVS).
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AlphaTheta / Pioneer DJ
over €600
Anyone who wants to practise at home on exactly the unit they'll find in the club — and can afford it.
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Ortofon
€100 to €200
Anyone who wants clean mixing and wants to go easy on their records.
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Ortofon
€100 to €200
Anyone who scratches or works a lot with back-cueing.
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Where the entries come from: All entries are assessments by the DJLearn editorial team, taken from the buying guide. We earn nothing from any click on this page. Prices change too fast, so you see ranges here instead of amounts.