Cometa M2: This Rotary DJ Mixer Is Undeniably Beautiful But Is it Worth $13K?
For DJs and audiophiles.
Would you pay $13,000 for a mixer? That’s the asking price for the new Cometa M2, a gorgeous hand-built audiophile rotary mixer used by 2ManyDJs.
Cometa M2
This really is a golden era for rotary DJ mixers. Although there are affordable rotary mixers on the market, with solid offerings from Ecler and Omnitronic, it really is an audiophile’s world. Hearkening back to the early days of the UREI 1620, rotary mixers are as much about sound quality as they are about mixing utility – and nowhere is that more evident than in the M2, a gorgeous mixer from new company Cometa.
Based out of California and headed by Spencer Velasquez, who is better known as DJ and dublab host Daddy Differently, Cometa has designed M2 to be the mixer of their dreams.
“We set out to build the kind of mixer we always wished existed,” Velasquez said in Resident Advisor. “One that feels amazing to use, sounds incredible in any setting, and captures what we love about rotary culture – without compromise.”
It’s already been tested by DJ Harvey and 2ManyDJs, the latter of which has its own audiophile sound system done in collaboration with James Murphy, Despacio.
Cometa M2: Look at that VU Meter
A two-channel mixer, Cometa M2 was “designed using best-in-class discrete components, producing a pristine signal path that keeps the noise low and vibes high while giving recordings the space and freedom to express their true warmth and clarity,” according to the website. Hand-made, it features Class-A discrete analog circuitry including CineMag transformers and WIMA film capacitors, and even boasts a flip-up chassis that opens “like a sports car.”
Dominating the front panel is the LED VU Meter, which lets you monitor the master out left and right as well as each channel individually. It offers “personalities” that you can choose with a button, as well as a display brightness trim pot.
Cometa M2: Channel Tone
Each of the two input channels offers a class-leading Pultec-style passive tonestack EQ with 100% Class-A makeup gain. You get high and low-frequency pots plus an LED-backlit bypass button to disable the tone circuit.
Cometa M2: Connects
Around the back, the Cometa M2 features what you might expect from a two-channel DJ mixer, with phono and line RCA jacks for each channel, master and booth balanced XLR jacks, an FX send and return set, plus power.
The microphone plugs in at the front under the panel, where you can also find a headphone jack, controls for headphone volume and cue/mix blend, microphone volume, and a mic on/off button.
Cometa M2: Price and Availability
The Cometa M2 is aimed at both DJs for club use and audiophiles for home listening. If you want to hear one in action, you can arrange a visit with Cometa at the company’s Los Angeles headquarters, or hear it in action at Bar San Francisco in Amsterdam during ADE, October 22nd through 25th.
So yeah, the price. Are you sitting down? The full price of the M2 is $12,999, but if you pre-order one now (this is the M2 Founder’s Edition with numbered nameplate), you can get it for $9,999 while supplies last. If you do get one, have a party and invite us over so we can all hear it.
Cometa plans to start shipping in Q1 2026.
DJ gear is available at Thomann*.
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One response to “Cometa M2: This Rotary DJ Mixer Is Undeniably Beautiful But Is it Worth $13K?”
I’ll keep this next to my toilet bowl.