Hello from a "Vintage" PIONEER fan!!

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hello, all!

i am an ex-TH member, "MacGyver" during my tenure there.

some here might already know that i am a serious PIONEER brand
enthusiast, with a specific interest in the firm's late-eighties products.

i am also a serious Anime/Manga fan (Japanese Animation/Comics)
an "Otaku" as the popular modern Fan-tag goes.

i started out in Hi-Fi around 1999/2000, inheriting my father's system,
a simple, low-budget affair, consisting of;


NIKKO 5055 STEREO RECEIVER (197?)

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll31 ... /50551.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"

PIONEER CT-980W DUAL CASSETTE DECK (1987)

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REALISTIC 31-2000 12-BAND GRAPHIC EQ (1982)

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll31 ... 1-2000.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"

BSR MACDONALD 200BAX 33-1/3/45RPM PHONO TURNTABLE

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll31 ... 29-087.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"

a couple years later, i added my first CD player to the system,
picked it up, with remote, for $2.00 at a yard sale;

TECHNICS SL-MC3 60+1 DISC CHANGER (1998)

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i used that system extensively, making MANY mixtapes for my
father, who was a long-haul truck driver under the employ
of C.R. ENGLAND AND SONS at the time.

i started to take a serious liking to that low-end PIONEER cassette deck,
as i started to realize that i rather liked the PIONEER brand.

i liked the logo, i liked the design, and when i started looking into
what they have produced over the last 40 years, i started to like
everything about them.

pretty soon, i began to build a dream-list of personal favorite
PIONEER components that i'd like to build a complete Hi-Fi system out of.

it took several years, and many EBAY deals to complete,
but today i have what pretty much amounts to that dream system
in it's entirety;


http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll31 ... 26-111.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"

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http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll31 ... 26-112.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll31 ... CF1926.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll31 ... CF1536.jpg




VSX-D1S TOTL 130w/ch. A/V Stereo Receiver (1990/1993)
PD-91 Reference Compact Disc Player (1988/1990) (upgraded with parts from a PD-3000, the JPN market version)
PD-M90X Reference Multi-Play CD Player (1987/1989) (the very first REFERENCE/ELITE multi-play CDP)
CT-S800 (1988/1990) full-featured TOTL Single-Well LaserAmorphous-Head cassette deck, with casted-iron transformer
DV-09 Reference DVD Player (1998/2000)
CLD-3030 TOTL Compatible Laser Disc Player (1988/1989)
GR-777 Ten Band Stereo Graphic Equalizer (1988/199?) (TOTL remote controllable EQ with dual spectrum display)
CS-G503 Four-Way Stereo Loudspeaker System (199?)
SE-305 Stereo Headphones (1974)
CU-AV100 Programmable Remote Control Unit (1987/1989)
CU-AV200 Programmable Remote Control Unit (1989/1993)
CU-AV70 Programmable Remote Control Unit (1989/1991)
MR-100 Multi-Room IR Receiver (1989/199?)
CU-MR100 Remote Control Unit (1989/199?)




HR-S8000U TOTL S-VHS VCR with Digital FX (1988/1990)
RM-S1 LCD Touch Panel Programmable Remote Control Unit (1988/19??)



MIRACORD 46 Idler Drive 33/45/78 speed Stereo Turntable (1970) with ADC VLM Mk.II Cartridge/Styli (197?)



finally, all that taping for my father left me with a lot of experience
in the usage of the compact cassette, as well as a lingering sentimentality
to the format. i joined up at TH in 2007ish, and from there, i learned
of just how much of an artform the compact cassette actually was.

i learned of how much art there actually was in the massive variety
of audio cassette blanks that all the many cassette blank mfrs.
produced all throughout the 25-odd years of the compact cassette's
heyday of dominance in the consumer audio market.

i suddenly found myself a collector, lusting after the TDK MA-XG
and so many more of the great designs marketed in those two+ decades.

in sum, as you might guess, i've a cassette blank collection.
it's not a big one, but it includes some of the best TYPE-IIs
made by some of the major mfrs. as well as a smattering
of TYPE-IVs, a single example each of both of the 1985 and 1990 versions
of the legendary TDK MA-XG among them;


http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll31 ... -5-116.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"

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and one of PIONEER's finest Single-Well High-End Decks,
the LASER-AMORPHOUS-headed CT-S800,
the PIONEER STANDARD-LINE variant of the ELITE CT-91,
internally IDENTICAL to it's ELITE version;


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http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll31 ... 9-0920.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;"

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Welcome,,,,but a word of Caution,,,You already know why you were invited to leave the other Forums,,the same will apply here ,,let common sense and taste guide your posts,,FF
 

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Wow Fast what a welcome. LOL MC his bark is worse than his bite. Tell him you want a cheese ketchup sammich. He will be mellow then. LOL

Larry
 

orange

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Welcome from Ontario, Malheur County...

So YOU are the one with all the SERIOUS Gesundheit stuff that started all those threads that weren't started by Nikolas the Dolphin :mrgreen: and I always marveled at.

(Warped Bezel, also asynchronousman on AK-happily SOOO not there)
 
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