jlindsey86
Well-Known Member
A little back story. A while ago I decided to ditch my 5.2 surround sound setup. It was nice but it just never gave me that ear to ear grin I would get when listening to my ADS L1230's, so back to two channel it was. The biggest problem I ran into was finding a receiver that excelled at two channel but would also let me switch video signals.
To meet this need I decided to look at "vintage" pro logic processors and I was going to pair it up with some decent power amps. To my dismay, I couldn't find a processor that fit all my requirements. Either it wouldn't have enough video inputs, lack a phono input, etc...This drove me to look for an older, quality, pro-logic receiver. I am a Pioneer nut and decided to seek out a nice VSX-D1S or VSX-9900S. They lacked any sort of digital inputs but would do everything else I need.
While I was looking for one of these receivers I stumbled across some Pioneer Pro-Logic amplifiers. Not add on amps, but full on integrated amps with a wide array of inputs. The few models that were released in North America looked intriguing but didn't offer any advantages over the VSX-D1S receiver. After doing a bit more research I stumbled across a post here on AK regarding the Pioneer VSA-9500 A/V Digital Surround Amplifier: http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/pioneer-vsa-9500-why-no-info.768555/
In the post was a link that took me to a database of, what appears to be, Pioneer components that were only released in Japan. Here is the link: http://audio-database.com/PIONEER-EXCLUSIVE/amp/index3.html
There doesn't seem to be ANY info out there on the VSA-9500 but listed in the link above is model VSA-950D which appears to be exactly the same as the 9500. The inputs, layout, construction, everything matches up. After looking over the photo's I decided I had to have this strange unit. I contacted the owner that posted about this unit and was able to purchase it from him. After receiving it today I am sure glad I did. This thing is a beast!
If anyone knows what country this was released in originally I would be interested in knowing. Any more info such as remote model # or manual scans would be greatly appreciated. For now here are some pictures.
To meet this need I decided to look at "vintage" pro logic processors and I was going to pair it up with some decent power amps. To my dismay, I couldn't find a processor that fit all my requirements. Either it wouldn't have enough video inputs, lack a phono input, etc...This drove me to look for an older, quality, pro-logic receiver. I am a Pioneer nut and decided to seek out a nice VSX-D1S or VSX-9900S. They lacked any sort of digital inputs but would do everything else I need.
While I was looking for one of these receivers I stumbled across some Pioneer Pro-Logic amplifiers. Not add on amps, but full on integrated amps with a wide array of inputs. The few models that were released in North America looked intriguing but didn't offer any advantages over the VSX-D1S receiver. After doing a bit more research I stumbled across a post here on AK regarding the Pioneer VSA-9500 A/V Digital Surround Amplifier: http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/pioneer-vsa-9500-why-no-info.768555/
In the post was a link that took me to a database of, what appears to be, Pioneer components that were only released in Japan. Here is the link: http://audio-database.com/PIONEER-EXCLUSIVE/amp/index3.html
There doesn't seem to be ANY info out there on the VSA-9500 but listed in the link above is model VSA-950D which appears to be exactly the same as the 9500. The inputs, layout, construction, everything matches up. After looking over the photo's I decided I had to have this strange unit. I contacted the owner that posted about this unit and was able to purchase it from him. After receiving it today I am sure glad I did. This thing is a beast!
If anyone knows what country this was released in originally I would be interested in knowing. Any more info such as remote model # or manual scans would be greatly appreciated. For now here are some pictures.
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