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signofzeta
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Post subject: Re: Vintage PIONEER CD Players; who own's one? Posted: 25 Jul 2019, 19:06 |
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Joined: 14 Jan 2010, 09:44 Posts: 5988 Location: Ann Arbor Has thanked: 1292 times Been thanked: 1106 times
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I actually need a CD player but I haven’t gotten around to getting one. I have so many LD players and game systems and computers and portables that I’ve never owned a standard rack sized deck. I need one for my kid so I was thinking about those 80s NADs with the colorful buttons.
The price of the units (which I love, btw) depicted is now quite crazy and while I’m sure they sound great there are massively better DACs these days, at least in the mind of people who know such things. It’s pretty bad a** to have external power supplies and a copper case but it’s also, somewhat sadly, totally pointless. I’m mainly concerned with the interface since any clown company can make a CD player that is at least decent sounding. I need a deep drawer that the disc easily centers in, not a lot of extra dumb on the screen. I’d love something that wasn’t Japanese, frankly.
_________________ All about LD care, inner sleeves, shrink wrap, etc.
https://youtu.be/b3O-vHpHRpM
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tasuke
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Post subject: Re: Vintage PIONEER CD Players; who own's one? Posted: 26 Jul 2019, 14:23 |
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Joined: 03 Aug 2013, 17:32 Posts: 1573 Location: OREGON, U.S. Has thanked: 3 times Been thanked: 136 times
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it's a beautiful piece, the 1987 upscale ELITE/REFERENCE version of their 1986 STANDARD LINE model PD-M70.
PIONEER's best built CD magazine changer of all-time, it is built like a tank, and remarkably quiet and smooth in operation, especially for a CD changer.
it also sounds pretty good for it's age. it is one of the centerpieces of my working collection.
they don't make ANYTHING like these kings of CD players anymore, except at perhaps the multi-thousand-dollar esoteric Audio High-End, and, even then, it is doubtful any of today's high-end CD playback devices are built well enough to keep on going after three decades-plus like these ancient paragons of a bygone age of quality and workmanship in A/V and Hi-Fi components...
_________________ * PIONEER CLD-3030 Compatible LDP (1988) (( http://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=3094 ))
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