Pioneer PDR-609 Review

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Pioneer PDR-609
3.8 stars
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tangman01's Review of Pioneer PDR-609 CD Player

Overall Rating

4.5 stars
  • Value for money
    4.5 stars
  • Sound Quality
    3 stars
  • Time CD Player Owned
    Over 1 Year
  • Features
    4.5 stars
Good Points

Very simple to use, and (so far) dependable. Owned it about 3 years


Bad Points

Playback is noticeably not as nice as my middle of the road Sony player. I feel like it's the common issue that you can only fit so much quality into a chassis for a given dollar amount. I use the Pioneer for recording but when I want to listen, I put the CD into the Sony - no problem.


General Comments

I don't understand the folks having issues with recording media. I assume they are not using CDs designed for Digital Audio - this recorder REQUIRES that you use CD-R and CD-RW which say Digital Audio on them.

Really simple method for duplicating CDs, using optical digital input. The 609 will copy and finalize with the push of a couple of buttons.

The Pioneer PDR609 makes nice recordings from vinyl as well, although please forget any ideas you have that much of the process is automated; the track-sensing software in this (and I bet almost all others) recorder really can't do a good job of dividing one song from another by itself. Therefore you have to sit with it and tell it (via front plate or remote) to 'start a new track now.'

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