I’ve now been using the DENON PRIME GO for three years. In fact, it’s now been superseded by the DENON PRIME GO PLUS.

Despite a few foibles I’ll describe below, the unit has been great to use, and I’ll stick with it.

Despite being superseded, Denon/Engine DJ still supports the PRIME GO with continued updates and new features being added, including the interesting addition of Stems support late last year. More importantly for me, one of the updates made the Sweep FX filter available in the headphone cue (though not Sweep FX delay), and you can toggle to have per channel VU meters, two things lacking in my previous post about this device.

I’ve had some issues with the device though, the output on the main balanced XLR outputs stopped working for me – it sort of works, but at extremely reduced volume and with no bass. But the sound is still working great on the unbalanced RCA out and the TRS balanced booth outs so I’m making do.

Also, the crossfader failed for the second time. The first time it was within warranty and was repaired under the warranty. The second time the unit was out of warranty. So it has been replaced with an Innofader  – which so far is working great.

The Engine DJ desktop playlist management software continues to be mildly annoying, but I cope with it. I now have a “recipe” using a KVM MS-windows VM, and an NFS mount from my Linux music server that is workable for using it under Linux that I may document in detail one day.

But besides these minor issues, the DENON PRIME GO continues to be a great unit to DJ with that works fine on the night when I’m playing. Great sound quality, portable and I can set up quickly and know I’ll have no issues playing.