Have droped Vinyl and CDj since this summer (well still play a little bit, but once I've copied everything I want that'l b that), totally bored of mixing a couple of choons together and thats it, I cant scratch, well I play mostly tekno/trance anyway, not allot of call for it, although I've seen a few sets with peeps doin it, and itz wikid, but anyway I cant do it, and I'm more interesting in playing on the keyboard anywayz
I use Ableton Live! 5 now, being able to Dj, produce and remix on the fly is a dream come true, hooking everything up thru a couple of Midi Controllers, gives you complete control, so you can spend your time making music, rather than keep a track in time, people often tell me thats cheating, but bollox, I spend hours setting up all my choons before hand so they are ready to drop into a mix when I need them, I can then concetrate on remixing and playing stuff live (synths/fx/samples)
Pioner CDj1000's are great fun to play with tho, almost gives you as much control as live, but still not enough, and still not the ability to run all my VST's and midi controllers...so Live! it is
I never play Mp3's thru a sound system tho, the sound is to muddy for me, even at high bit rates 300+ (imo)