On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 01:04:04PM -0400, Steve Sharpe wrote: > > The only decent experience I have had with Pioneer was a car deck,
[. . .] I, like thousands of other students at the time, owned a Pioneer PL-12D (complete with a lightweight headshell and a Shure M75EDII cartridge). For the budget-conscious it was an excellent piece of equipment, and served me well for many troublefree years - the only maintenance was to replace the drive belt. Nowadays the weakest link in the chain is definitely my hearing, so I don't shop at high-end audio stores. I am more than a little amused, though, to note that PL-12Ds still get discussed in A/V forums, often by folks who talk seriously about just which $200+ cartridge would be best to use with it. I'd never have considered a PL-12D to be a true HiFi deck, just exceptionally good value for money. It was priced in the same general region as the ubiquitous Garrard SP-25, and was certainly a far better deck than the Garrard, but that's about all. [FWIW - even now, almost forty years later, the model numbers spring readily to mind; I'm not sure what that says about how my memory works]. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
