A few comments from Plank!
The Above mentioned Pioneer DJM909
SUCKS! The sound quality is horrid!
We had to use on of these recently as it was on some DJ's tech rider. The other DJ's used our Vestax PMC55a and totally blew Mr big name DJ away on sound quality.
Rane have good build quality and generally a very useful set of connectors, but again suffer with poor sound and lack of "features" - most of them are built like tanks tho, so tend to survive night-club installs.
Rane's "Top of the line" rotary fader MP/XP 2016 thing, is total PANTS, considering the calibre of venues these are installed in, they really do a piss poor job of trying to sound good! (That said the Vestax "rotary" mixer is not much better!!!)
I've not used the model mentioned, so it's more of a general comment then model specific.
I've also not used any of the Tascam models, so can't really comment on them.
If the mixer is for bedroom/livingroom duties only, then go with whatever feels good. chances are it will be better looked after than any mixer used on the club/party scene.
However for use with a rig for parties or clubs then look a bit harder.
balanced outputs are essential, as are booth/monitor outs - on decent connectors (ie NOT RCA!)
See if the faders are easily changed, and how much the replacements cost!
How easily are they changed?
A good mixer should have Alps faders, these cost a lot more, but last MUCH longer.
Hope that helps
