Denon Prime 4+

The Denon DJ Prime 4+ is, at its core, the same machine as the Prime 4 (covered fully in its own guide): a flagship four-deck all-in-one standalone DJ system with a large 10-inch touchscreen, full-size controls, a four-channel mixer, effects and an internal drive bay — a complete club-grade setup in one unit with no laptop required. The '+' marks a set of upgrades layered on top of that proven foundation. The headline additions are built-in Wi-Fi (enabling direct streaming and cloud play), dual-zone output (so you can send a different mix to a second room or area), and various refinements. In other words, it takes the already-powerful Prime 4 and modernises its connectivity and flexibility — particularly valuable for mobile and event DJs. This guide focuses on those '+' upgrades, since the core playing experience — the jog wheels, the four-deck mixing, the pads, the Engine DJ workflow — is identical to the Prime 4 and is covered in detail in that guide. Read both together for the complete picture.

The standout addition of the Prime 4+ is built-in Wi-Fi, which unlocks streaming and cloud play that the original Prime 4 lacked. You can connect to supported streaming services and play tracks directly, and access your cloud library, all without a USB stick — the unit analyses streamed tracks for BPM and waveforms so they behave like your own prepared music. For a mobile or event DJ, this is genuinely powerful: you get access to enormous catalogues on the fly, so an unexpected request is just a search away. It turns the Prime 4+ from a self-contained-but-offline unit into a connected one with the whole world of music available. The usual streaming caveat applies: it depends on a stable internet connection, which you can't always count on in a venue, so for important sets keep your essential tracks prepared on the internal drive or a USB stick as a reliable backup. Used wisely — streaming for range and flexibility, local files for the must-plays — the Wi-Fi upgrade meaningfully expands what the Prime 4+ can do.

Another meaningful '+' upgrade is dual-zone output. This lets the Prime 4+ send a separate audio feed to a second zone — for example, playing your main mix on the dancefloor while sending different music (or the same) to a bar, terrace or another room. For mobile and event DJs who often cover multiple areas of a venue, that's a real, practical advantage that usually requires extra gear to achieve. The Prime 4+ also brings other refinements over the original — connectivity and output improvements that make it more flexible as the hub of a setup. Combined with the Wi-Fi streaming, these upgrades are squarely aimed at the working mobile and event professional who needs to cover varied gigs flexibly. Beyond these additions, everything else — the inputs for mics and external sources, the master and booth outputs, the internal drive bay — carries over from the Prime 4. The '+' is fundamentally about connectivity and zone flexibility: taking a great standalone and making it more adaptable to real-world event situations.

Underneath the '+' upgrades, the Prime 4+ delivers the same excellent core experience as the Prime 4, so everything in our Prime 4 guide applies directly. To recap the essentials: it's a four-deck standalone, so you can layer up to four tracks for creative sets; it has full-size touch-capacitive jog wheels with on-jog displays; a four-channel mixer with EQ, Sweep FX (one-knob colour effects like the filter) and the crossfader; and the full performance toolkit of hot cues, loops, beat jump and slip. The core workflow is the same too: prepare your music in Engine DJ (which imports Serato and rekordbox libraries), load from the internal drive, USB or SD (now also Wi-Fi/streaming), and perform. The clean blend is still the bass swap, the universal skills are still beatmatching, EQ, phrasing and tasteful effects — all in our Techniques section. So think of the Prime 4+ as 'Prime 4, plus connectivity'. If you want the deep, lesson-by-lesson walkthrough of the four-deck playing experience, our Prime 4 guide is the place; this guide adds what the '+' brings on top.

Choosing between the Prime 4 and the Prime 4+ comes down to connectivity needs. The original Prime 4 is a superb, powerful standalone — four decks, big screen, full features — and if you play primarily from your own prepared library on USB or an internal drive, it does everything you need, often at a lower price (especially used). The Prime 4+ adds built-in Wi-Fi (streaming and cloud), dual-zone output, and refinements — upgrades that matter most to mobile and event DJs who want streaming access on the fly and the ability to run multiple areas. So: if you value streaming catalogues, cloud play and dual-zone flexibility — particularly for varied mobile gigs — the Prime 4+ is worth the step up. If you mostly play prepared sets from your own library and don't need streaming or a second zone, the Prime 4 gives you the same core power for less. Either way, the performance and the skills are identical and transfer everywhere. Pair whichever you choose with our Techniques section and our Prime 4 guide for the core walkthrough, and you have a flagship standalone that delivers a complete, laptop-free, club-grade setup — the '+' simply makes it more connected and flexible for the working event DJ.