

My only real reservation with the case is that when using it as a stand, the sheer amount of padding and protection it’s equipped with adds quite a lot of bulk and means that setting it up completely flush with the rest of your equipment isn’t really possible. For a start, there’s a particularly well padded carry case that doubles up as a stand to raise the K2 to turntable/mixer height. In the Box The Xone K2 has an excellent selection of value adders in the box.

Allen & Heath beat pretty much everyone to the punch with their Xone K2 announcement at last year’s, and they’ve had the DJ community on tenterhooks since. I don’t know whether this is something to do with the hive mind that people are talking more and more about since Twitter became a ‘thing’, but the amount of controllers that are pointing towards the exact same workflow, all coming out within a timeframe too condensed to allow us to infer much in the way of copycat tactics, is staggering.
