AlphaTheta has launched the DJM-A7, a four-channel efficiency mixer that carries the format and faders of the DJM-A9 right into a smaller chassis. It provides built-in wi-fi headphone monitoring, a tone management for the grasp output and two USB-C ports for DJ changeovers, and goes on sale in the present day at €1,599.
The DJM-A7 replaces the Pioneer DJM-750MK2, which has been a standard sight in bar and smaller membership cubicles since 2017, and occupies roughly the identical footprint. AlphaTheta is putting it beneath the DJM-A9 in its vary, geared toward working DJs and at venue operators whose cubicles must accommodate totally different setups from one evening to the subsequent.
Which may imply CDJs and turntables on a Friday, a laptop computer on a Saturday and an iPad at a Sunday session. The DJM-A7 is designed round that type of changeover, and round rooms that wouldn’t have a devoted sound engineer readily available.
The management floor follows the DJM-A9, and the 4 channel faders are the identical 45mm models used on the bigger mixer. A brand new Smooth Combine Curve setting lowers the excessive frequencies barely as a channel fader is pulled down, in order that blends sound much less abrupt with out the DJ having to work the EQ.
Conversion is dealt with by 32-bit ESS Expertise converters on the channel inputs and on the grasp, sales space and report outputs, operating at 48kHz. AlphaTheta quotes a signal-to-noise ratio of 110dB over USB and 102dB on the road inputs, with a frequency response of 20Hz to 20kHz.
The primary addition is Grasp Texture, a pair of controls that form the grasp output. AIR strikes the highest finish between Smoky and Shiny, whereas LOW END strikes the bass between Clean and Punchy. It’s a handbook tone management reasonably than computerized room correction, meant to take the sting off harsh highs in a small bar or give a kick drum extra weight in a membership, with out touching the channel EQs. The DJM-A9 doesn’t have it.
There are 4 Sound Colour FX: House, Dub Echo, Filter and a brand new Break up Filter. The Break up Filter works primarily on the mid-range and leaves the lows and highs largely intact, so a transition can construct stress with out stripping out the groove. The Beat FX part gives Delay, Spiral, Trans, Echo, Reverb and Roll, every chosen with its personal illuminated button reasonably than a rotary selector.
Some options haven’t made the transfer down. The DJM-A9 has six Sound Colour FX, 14 Beat FX, a second microphone enter and a talkover perform, none of which the A7 carries. The outgoing DJM-750MK2 additionally had six Sound Colour FX and an analogue ship and return, which the brand new mannequin doesn’t.
Two USB-C ports on the highest panel permit two computer systems to be linked directly, so one DJ can hand over to the subsequent with out unplugging something. The mixer works with rekordbox for Mac and Home windows by way of {hardware} unlock, that means no rekordbox subscription is required. Serato DJ Professional, djay Professional for Mac and Home windows, and djay for iOS are additionally supported, every requiring its personal paid licence or subscription.
SonicLink, AlphaTheta’s wi-fi audio system, is constructed into the mixer, so the HDJ-F9 and HDJ-F10 headphones can be utilized and not using a separate transmitter. AlphaTheta quotes latency of 9 milliseconds. The HDJ-F9 could be paired by holding it to a marked level on the mixer, which requires the present DJM-A7 firmware.
With suitable PRO DJ LINK gamers such because the CDJ-3000 and CDJ-3000X, Hyperlink Cue lets the DJ preview a monitor from the browser earlier than loading it, or cue some extent in a taking part in monitor with out affecting the grasp, with a separate degree management for the preview. A 3rd USB-C port, labelled MULTI I/O, connects the RMX-IGNITE results unit digitally over a single cable.
The remaining connections are 4 RCA line and 4 RCA phono inputs, one microphone enter on a mixture XLR and 6.3mm jack, an XLR grasp output, a 6.3mm TRS sales space output, an RCA report output, 6.3mm and three.5mm headphone sockets and a LAN port. The unit measures 331 x 387.8 x 107.9mm and weighs 6.7kg.
The DJM-A7 is obtainable from 10 November 2026 with a beneficial retail value of €1,599. How a lot distinction Grasp Texture and Smooth Combine Curve make in follow will develop into clearer as soon as the mixer is in cubicles.
Extra data is obtainable on the AlphaTheta web site.
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