What combination of capabilities would you like to see offered in a single product?

Buying gear has always been a compromise for me. I have never found the ideal feature set in a single piece of gear. There was always a little too many of that, or a little too few of the other thing. For instance, I never found an ideal DJ mixer, or controller, or DJ cart, or facade. Some things I have built for myself. With other things, I have settled for the closest compromise I could find. And sometimes I really wonder if my needs are just too far out there.

Here is one example. I would love to see gear cart that can turn into a normal looking table. I built one and used it for 10+ years but it was less than ideal. It was pretty heavy (steel frame, 10" pneumatic wheels). The wheels were removable for storage but that was a bit cumbersome. What I want is very doable. I just need better mechanical design skills and some CNC expertise to build it.

Example 2: For years, I lamented the lack of input capabilities within small rack mixers. Two or three years ago Tascam released what would have been my ideal mixer 10-15 years earlier. Now, I don't want it anymore. Digital mixers are really the future. Unfortunately, no one makes a digital mixer well suited for DJ racks. The capabilities of small digital mixers are all there, but the packaging (connector location and types, physical controls, etc) just isn't well suited for DJing. The high-end modern controllers and all-in-one units are getting pretty nice but none offer enough mic inputs for me. They are also too big for a rack. However, I still want a rack for my other gear. The mixer/controllers that still fit in racks lack the input capabilities I need. This means that Tascam unit is still the best compromise.

I was never much into lighting but I love the idea behind the integrated gig-bars. I just don't like the look of T-bar arrangements. Why hasn't someone made a vertical equivalent of a gig-bar? Imagine light effect modules that can be stacked vertically on top of a base with interconnecting power and control between modules. You would have the clean visual aesthetic of a tower speaker (e.g. Bose L1) where all the cables are hidden. This could be done easily if some lighting vendor started to think outside the box of what already exists.

So there are three ideas I would love to see. What would you like to see?

The most I have ever needed was 4 mics at once. Three is pretty common for me (two wireless and one wired). My current ceremony system has 4 mic inputs but only four stereo inputs. It fits in only one rack space but it doesn't have EQ on the mics. The Tascam MZ-372 has 6 channels and each is switchable between a mic and two stereo inputs (6 total mics, 12 total stereo lines). Each channel has EQ and metering too and it all fits in just 3 rack spaces. I may end up getting one some day just to have it. It would be helpful with the type of the charity gigs I used to do before the pandemic and hope to resume someday.