PIONEER CT-S800 LASER-AMORPHOUS HEAD CASSETTE DECK (1988)

[Master Tasuke]

some new pics of my baby, the PIONEER STANDARD LINE variant of the more well-known ELITE LINE CT-91;

i recently picked up a copy of the CU-T011 remote unit,
originally supplied with the CT-M6R 6-cassette changer,
but very useful with the S800, as, with the deck connected to a PIONEER component
with a 6v remote trigger IN/OUT,
and IR sense/control capabilities, such as my VSX-D1S AV receiver, this remote can operate
the S800's TIME COUNTER/RESET display functions,
OPEN/CLOSE the motorized door, and operate ALL of the deck's
basic operations.

i just finished some tidying up inside,
cleaning up the wiring routing with black zip-ties,
and slipping ferrite cores over the AC line
directly inside the enclosure.

oh, and i also painted the top of the pressed-metal
enclosure that houses the INPUT LEVEL and L/R BAL. pots,
the box that those brass shafts terminate into,
flat black, as i think it looks better that way...


the Euro-market version of this deck, the CT-939, has a far more attractive cassette well door panel, IMHO;

-if there is some European tapehead out there
that can link me up with a way to get hold
of this door panel, please let me know...

 

[speakerman1]

Re: PIONEER CT-S800 LASER-AMORPHOUS HEAD CASSETTE DECK (1988

Have you been to the ebay euro sites?

Larry

 

[Master Tasuke]

Re: PIONEER CT-S800 LASER-AMORPHOUS HEAD CASSETTE DECK (1988

Have you been to the ebay euro sites?

Larry

yeah, i've been starting to think about regularly checking those, as of late.

in fact i just picked up three copies of a "CU-PD042" remote for my PD-91 CDP off of EBAY Germany.

(i prefer the PD042, originally supplied with the 1990 models PD-6500 and 7500, to the PD011
originally supplied with the PD-91.)

(while the PD-6500/7500 players were TECHNICALLY
available in the U.S. for, perhaps a year or so,
the models seem to have been FAR more prolific
in Germany, as it's EBAY was where i found
and bought all three of the PD042 units
that i had found there.

i have yet to find even a single PD042 available on EBAY U.S. to date...)

indeed, scouring international EBAY, probably EBAY Germany in particular, will likely be my surest chance
of coming across a CT-939 door panel...

 

[rtp_burnsville]

Re: PIONEER CT-S800 LASER-AMORPHOUS HEAD CASSETTE DECK (1988

Looks like a nice deck..... It must be a Pioneer week with your cassette and my RTR.


Robert

 

[Master Tasuke]

Re: PIONEER CT-S800 LASER-AMORPHOUS HEAD CASSETTE DECK (1988

Looks like a nice deck..... It must be a Pioneer week with your cassette and my RTR.


Robert

one of their very best, an exact identical performer
to it's ELITE CT-91 clone, and really only a slight second to
the ELITE CT-93, the very last pull-out-all-stops super cassette deck PIONEER really ever made...