Yea I can’t afford the SX either, to bad pioneer isn’t a cheap brand ;p. I’m running Serato DJ on my macbook pro so that should not be the reliability problem. I just want to be sure to buy a controller which I can rely on when I’m DJ’ing. As for the XLR port, that’s not a problem, since I got my own speaker set up and when I DJ in a club I won’t use my own controller.