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| Old Classic Receivers: A Mistake to Buy? The money that's spent on them tells the whole story. In particular for Pioneer's receivers. The SX-xx50 and xx80 series hold their value for the same (good) reasons classic Mac gear does. But they are meant to be used with the speakers (Bart L... | |
| Exotic Reissue Lps VS. Rare orig Which one? $$=$$ Better's continually in the eye of the beholder. I have the Mercury Scythian Suite/3 Oranges in the original LP, the Classic Reissue, The CD reissues all in excellent shape (including the original). The best "presentation" resides in the reissue v... | |
| Sunfire Signature... what is this? I've had mine (SS 600x2 and CG 405x5) since about '02 (and '06) and they're both KEEPER's . Incredible performance, never loses its "cool". I have had to replace the meter lamps once or twice. If they ever sound less than 100% it's time to seek ou... | |
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| Chime in.What's the Best Cassette Recorder ever ? In order:Pioneer CT-93 Nakamichi DragonNakamichi RX-505Nakamichi DR-1Nakamichi BX-300Pioneer CT-1250The only real mitigation involves NR systems, azimuth correction and ability to print MOL cleanly, which is tape dependent. There are any number of... | |
| Your Favorite Top 10 tuners all time I defy anybody to tell the difference between a Pioneer F-91 or an F-93. If there is any, it's the 93's superior separation and S/N. After spending years investigating what people's beef was with it, it turns out that somebody offered it up for a ... | |
| Denon DCD A100 I pulled the trigger on one from MD on closeout and it's the best CD player I've ever heard, including the ones I posted on above. It also doubles as a D/A. Killer single box player. | |
| Pioneer SX-1050: worth repairing? Unqualified yes, unless there's an unobtainium issue. One of the x50 series strengths is that it's not as dependent on "proprietary" parts as the later (but arguably cleaner sounding) x80 series. I like both, the x50 series has very (negligibly) s... | |
| Towards a Tuner Hierarchy The idea that the F-90 or F-99x is in the same league as the TX-9500 II or the TX-9800 is laughable. The Front End Sensitivity MIGHT (jut might) be in the ball park but the audio quality just isn't and won't be. The 9500 II and the 9800 is a close... | |
| Top Ten Tuners of all Time?? Pioneer TX-9500 IIPioneer TX-9800 (poorer shielding though)Pioneer F-93 (listen for yourself and make your own mind up, it was a Recommmended Stereophile component. TIC appears to not like it because a Tuner Guru chose not to try to align it.....o... | |
| Emotiva UMC-1 Processor-REVIEW After having contacted Emotiva, I bailed on the UMC-1 and bought a Marantz while it was gone. By the time I got the UMC-1 back from Emotiva (fully reloaded firmware) I'd become so much more pleased with the Sound quality of the Marantz that it's s... | |
| Pioneer RT-707 reel to reel decks The only Pioneer Deck that I'd place at or above either the x0x decks are the RT-1050 or RT-2022/44's. Pioneer decks made after 1973 are sleepers in general. Parts are plentiful, might they might not always be.......but that having been said, they... | |
| Top Ten Tuners of all Time?? Pioneer F-93, F-91 (Don't let anybody fool you, I can't hear the difference between the two, and I bet A/B testing would reveal that nobody else can either....)Pioneer TX-9800/9500 II. The 9800 prevails in rural settings and the 9500 II has better... | |
| Denon DCD A100 I'm seriously thinking of pulling the trigger on this Denon 100th Anniversary player. I have owned a 1520 (sold it to a trumpet student-he still has it-I replaced the belts) and bought a mint (supposedly shelved) 1560. It works great unless I let ... | |
| Pioneer F-93 Elite series tuner It's my personal opinion that this tuner's been ganged up on by a certain pro-unobtanium (Trio, Accuphase, etc.) contingent in the blogosphere. I own a late U.S. production model and I don't hear anything that agrees with anti-Japanese bias that s... |