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Pioneer's first CD player is the ???

I have one thing to say on the subject of old verses new.....what kind of music do you listen to? If you listen to Bach...longhair, then you should look for someting new, if you listen to old rock and roll as I do, then the old stuff doesn't matter as the recordings made during the 60.s were not the best as I can attest to. New digital recordings are alot different from putting the old analog on a cd and calling it digital. I have compared the two, new digital and old analog on both new and old cd...dvd players and this was my findings.


Timmie
 
I have the Sanyo version of the pix at the top of this thread. There was also a Hitachi. I suspect all 3 had the same OEM, but only by reading the Underwriter's Labs sticker on the back can we learn who actually built the first generation DAD-cd.
 
Axel has one. Someone else as well (and his works pretty good, if I recall).

We have taken a look at serial numbers to try and determine production numbers, or even if there is any relation to production counts. We have not been successful thus far. Look at http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=56786 where Axel and I tried to make some sense of the serial numbers.

Perhaps a larger collection of ordered numbers can put these numbers more in focus.

Doc
 
Hello guys,

I have one P-D1 which is proper functioning, I use it on everyday base. the serial number: DD8403985. I have posted some pics one it one a msngroups which I made for that sole purpose:
http://groups.msn.com/VintagePioneer/

The guy told me he bought it new in 84. Axel told me there are two different versions of the PD-1, one with remote out, and one without... mine seems to be of the first, there's a voltage selector one the back for 220 and 240 volts. The discdoor doesn't close automatically, I've checked, but to my opinion this is also the way it should be..

I am also very, very curious at the number of P-D1's which were build...

Regards,

Willem
 
2 Side CD?

Earlsays said:
Here's what I'm still trying to figure out...the Phillips prototype CD disc pictured on that link to the website of prototype CD players has a small label and is (possibly) two-sided, like a laserdisc....two sided redbook CD's, seem completely possible
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In the picture accompanying Dr. Strangelove's original post, there a button labeled `one side repeat'. Ok, this could just mean `play whole side again' rather than track repeat, but it's the kind of label you'd put on if the machines normal function would be follow side A with side B. It's just a thought............. Jim.
 
I am looking back over this thread because I just vacate the owner of a SA-940 and am trying to learn about this era. Dr. Strangelove’s listing upthread of the models of CD players (or DADs) is great. However, the only PL-1000 I am finding information about online is a turntable. Does anyone have more info?
 
nosferatutu said:
I am looking back over this thread because I just vacate the owner of a SA-940 and am trying to learn about this era. Dr. Strangelove’s listing upthread of the models of CD players (or DADs) is great. However, the only PL-1000 I am finding information about online is a turntable. Does anyone have more info?
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I recommend that you re-read the entire thread. One of the posters mentions that the P-L1000 was apparently a model seen at a German Hi Fi show many, many years ago. He speculates that it was either a prototype or perhaps simply a different model number for the P-D1
 
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Would anyone know if there was a CD player made in the early 80's that matched the champagne gold color from that era? I would like to round out my collection (A9, F9, CT- 9R, PL-L 800).
 
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