Long-lost Pioneer Package Deal

[Zed Simon]

Remember when I posted about those Realistic Mach One speakers I got? That day I saw a Pioneer CD burner in the back room. A couple weeks after I got all the gear, I went back to see if the CD burner was there. Nope. C'est la, I guess.

Chapter search to today. What should I find there but possibly that exact same CD burner: a Pioneer PDR-509. Dirty, unpriced, no remote...but it lit up, spun up and played through headphones. I'll take it on faith that it also records. More on that in a sec.

After a quick talk between clerk and manager, the price came out to be $25...headphones included.

I suspect the burner may have been bought and returned. In my research, I found that this unit is pretty specific about using music CD-Rs (or -RWs) and won't record on any other kind. I'll have to scope some out and report back.

As for the headphones, they're ol' skool Pioneer SE-205s from some time in the '70s...they came with a cable extender and they sound great. 'Course, that's only based on about 15 seconds worth of listening so far, but I think I'll enjoy them. They'll go great with the rest of my Pioneer stuff!

[Pedeka]

Wow..........that sounds almost exactly like something my husband would say when he shows up with the back of the jeep full of stereo parts and audio equipment. I'm glad to see that he has some competition out there, so that everything with a wire sticking out of it that the universe puts out there doesn't end up at my house.(I understand the need for more speakers and amps the way he understands why I need more cookie jars or planters) But it's good to hear that people are finding things that make them so happy.

[SeSo_Says_So]

Yeah, Zed, Congrats on your find.  Ahhhhh, the 70s! Who knew all that audio stuff, the stuff that made all the boys swoon in 1973, would be the gift that keeps on giving to an appreciative audi0-phile 30+ years later?  I remember dating guys who were "building" their systems. When two or more of them would get together and talk audi0, we "gals" might have well been invisible.  It's good you keep the history alive.

[mccoysnina]

Sounds like  you got some great buys!
I confess to being a heathern in respect to electronic things. But I am glad you are happy.  It would certainly be a dull world if everyone liked the same thing. 
Jeannie

[rovingmind]

I have a set of those speakers, i use them for DJing, actually used them for my own wedding reception.