Status, October 2026: discontinued. Denon DJ no longer lists the PRIME 2 in its DJ Systems lineup, though its product page is still online, and Denon DJ has not named a successor.
What it is
The PRIME 2 is a two-deck standalone DJ system from Denon DJ, launched in January 2020 alongside the PRIME GO as a two-channel version of the PRIME 4 (Denon DJ product page). It runs Engine OS on its own processor, so it plays without a computer.
Music comes from three USB-A ports, an SD card slot or a 2.5-inch SATA drive you fit in the bay underneath. Over Wi-Fi or Ethernet it streams from Beatport LINK, Beatsource LINK, SoundCloud GO+ and TIDAL, or reads Dropbox. Engine DJ on a computer prepares the library and imports rekordbox, Serato DJ, Traktor and Apple Music collections, and the unit can record a mix to its own media.
A 7-inch multi-touch screen handles browsing, search and waveforms. Each deck has a 6-inch capacitive jog wheel with a colour display, eight pads for hot cues, loops, rolls and the slicer, a 100 mm pitch fader and its own FX section. The mixer has two channels, each with a three-band EQ and a filter, plus an aux channel on RCA and two XLR/1/4" mic inputs with a shared three-band EQ and talkover. There are no line or phono inputs on the two main channels.
Outputs are master on XLR and RCA, booth on XLR, and 1/4" and 1/8" headphone jacks. It measures 644.8 x 410.1 x 120.2 mm and weighs 7.2 kg. The box holds the unit, a display cover, a cleaning cloth, the power cable, a USB cable, drive mounting screws and the quickstart guide.