Pioneer had many firsts including the first company with cd players that lose the lens on the laser. Even the ones that were priced in the stratosphere.
Are you serious 16 years. Plasma TVs only last like 9 to 10 years. Plasma TVs had a better picture than LCD Tvs. My friend had a 42 inch Panasonic Plasma TV. The model number was TY-ST42-PX5W and the picture was amazing
I always do this with customers units when they are pristine. If they are mine I don't generally but i still don't drag it around and intentionally scratch it.
I performed the same procedure but on an Onkyo DX C 300. I believe a better method is to apply the glue very thinly around the inner wall of the lens housing, with a toothpick. Then when prior to installing the lens, you can clean the lens with an optical cleaner and optical cloth, then install the lens, holding it with the optical cloth. This method ensures that you have accurately cleaned the lens on both sides, not having to leave any skin oil/ contaminants on the lens from your hands.
I like the upside down laser system, not so easy for dust to get inside the laser. The copper plated chassis is good for a low resistance earth, but i think the posh bits of copper on top of the capacitors is a waste of time. Just eye candy. The lense falling off is just mad lol.
Surely they shouldn't have covered the vent hole slots on the top of those electrolytic capacitors with that copper foil stuff. Also I would have turned the unit upside down to see if the original lens fell out then you wouldn't be one lens short which you now are. Great video and always a pleasure to watch. Thanks.
Look closely and you'll notice cross shaped indent, so I bet were a cap to spill its guts that puny copper film would be no hindrance at all, also bear in mind, that the recovered lens would most likely have suffered too much damage from bumping into stuff at random.
I remember some of those Pioneer players, not cheap. That is NOT regular mechanism. Thanks I remember some of my CD-Rs, especially the 80min, would skip near the edge when played by regular CD player, but not when played by PC drive.
Mine fell out of a pioneer pd 91 glued it up side down at first and wondered why it didn't work luckily I didn't use super glue and manage to get it out and turn it over theses old machines are quite heavy.
The main idea was: at the usual design the dust falls down onto the lens and that causes problems. They wanted to prevent these problems with this upside down design. Unfortunately they made mistake: maybe the pick-up engineers didn´t calculate with the weight of the lens and gravity (and resonance due to focus and tracking) or just the glue was not good enough at the production.
@@sergeyfukov9062 Yes we all understand that was the reason that pioneer did this with all of them, and they all failed. Every single pioneer laser is guaranteed to fall out. Stronger glue would have prevented this.
@@sergeyfukov9062 That's interesting. Seems like there could have been some engineering to keep it from falling out. Now I'm reminded that there are CD players that play discs standing up vertically. I think dust would be (electrostatically?) attracted to a lens no matter what position. I clean my glasses every day. The next generation of CD players should have HEPA filters on all of the capacitors.
Dear sir, do you have idea about the diameter of the e-clamp under the turning plate, in order to fix the axis in position, it was lost while I lubricated it….
Hey man... I have a CD player that may need fixed... How much do you charge??? I think it is a SONY.... I got it back in 199o.... It died years ago.. Still on my stereo all hooked up but it is not plugged in.... Let me know...
@@12voltvids The Japanese definitely did like to keep the good stuff at home. My Yamaha 950 is a Japanese market goodie that I swapped in a US market transformer from a similar model while I was restoring it. It's also got the copper coated chassis bits.
@@bugdrvr It really isn't like that. This one would have sold here if people were prepared to pay the price but most Americans demand low priced products. Yes there are a few audiophiles but nowhere near the number of Japanese whom are pureists and will pay whatever the asking price is and not haggle over the price. This is the reason that the really nice stuff remained in Japan. I have an old Japanese friend that was getting his brother to send him high end luxman gear that I would go to his house and drool over. Then he told me the price.
Well it looks nice. If this was my player it would have a plexiglass top to show off that beautiful chassis. Seriously though it is to provide additional magnetic shielding. On some benchmark it probably made a minute barely measurable difference but hey the audiophools love this and will pay a premium for it.
@@12voltvids Dead right dave, looks nice but doesnt make a damn difference, these were over engineered to push up the price pioneer knew audioidiots would pay any price they charged, the best cd player ive ever heard was the TASCAM CDRW4U, that little beast had the sweetest sound
@@Synthematix You know the best cassette deck I have ever heard, next to my JVC TDV1010 was a Tascam unit (forget the number) that a musician friend of mine has in his studio. It had unbelievable sound for a 2 head deck and with a good tape he could push it to +7 easily. It was the 1 plece of analog gear that he didnt get rid of.
@@12voltvids Glad you replied mate, yes tascam (especially the early 90s stuff) had some of the best sounding tape decks ever, they had a bloody amazing warm and inviting sound too them, I own the teac reference 300 series, mate I’m not joking tascam in this era were unbeatable, they wiped the floor with anything from Sony or pioneer for sound quality, also tascam and teac in this era were built to an extremely high standard. Another amazing sounding tape deck was the Sharp RT-3150, this machine is a hidden gem of a machine and it’s a bloody beautiful one too, first time I heard it on shop pre recorded tapes it sounded so good I had a tear in my eye no joke, it’s warm, detailed and built like a tank, everyone swears by nakamichi but I’m sorry I’ve heard far better machines
@@Synthematix Tascam was the professional arm of Teac, and they were the recording studio standard for many years because they would run all day and produced incredible sound. I have Tascam DAT machines here in my studio
What is the yellow Molykote grease that you use on the metal parts/posts lubrication? I cant find it online. Can you share a link or model name with us please? You seem to be using a little transparent packet all the time.
@@12voltvids Understood. Will you recommend what I should search for when purchasing a modern version of this grease? I'm coming up with a gazillion options online and I don't want to ruin my archival machine. Thanks for responding and thanks for your contribution to this community. Someone should put these vids in the National Archive for training future archivists ;-)
@@zhalberd any lithium based grease should be just fine to lubricate mechanisms. That mollykote was a lithium based not moyliblum as the name suggests. It was the molyiblum (black) grease that caused so many problems. I think the name mollykote came about as it was a replacement for that black shit that turned to cement over time. I have used different brands and many come in a syringe type despensor. The only real reason I am using this stuff is i have a few packages left. Once i run out it will be chemtronics or mg chemicals lithium based lubricant. Just be sure it says safe for plastics if it is going on plastic cogs or gears. I have a tube of the white lithium grease around but i think the label fell off it. As to putting my videos in national archive, well I wouldn't make any money off that like I do on RU-vid. Even after I am dead i hope they stay up as my kids could certainly benefit from the residuals that they generate.
It wouldn't surprise me if I don't get more matches on sound effects. I got a copyright match and subsequent demonetization where the claim holder was going to take all the revenue for a recording of a steam locomotive. Someone in a foreign country because I couldn't read the name of the title it was the track was called locomotive de vapor is what they claimed. I just selected for RU-vid to remove that section so they removed that 15-second clip and then let the video go live
Pioneer must have had a good belly laugh ever time an audio-fool bought one of those. How they could charge NASA money without making sure 1 G didn't make it unusable is a mystery to me!
But remember NASA pays 40 grand for a fu--ing hammer and 250 grand for a cordless drill. Meanwhile a NASA supplier strolls down to home Depot buys a 20.00 hammer and some spray paint, paints it some funky color and sticks some fancy space certified labels on it and sells it to NASA.
I wouldn't say they are garbage but they are more picky on the cd they play. Over engineered. I have a Sony cdp555es and that is the best sounding cd player i have heard. It too is built like a tank. If it wasn't burried in my stereo cabinet i would take it apart and show it off as it is all copper like this but i believe the Sony is real copper not just copper plated.
