Unless you’ve been living under a turntable shaped rock this past year, you’ll know that a working knowledge of CD decks is nigh on essential for the club going DJ in 2011. The vast majority of clubs and musically inclined pubs across the world have a pair of CD decks as well as, or instead of, turntables. Pioneer has established itself as the industry standard CD deck – initially with the ubiquitous CDJ-1000 and more recently with the 2000 version – and as such they feature prominently in this list. However we’ve road tested each and every one of the competitors, and whittled them down to a shortlist of the 10 best across a range of prices.

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