Pioneer PDR-609 Review

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Pioneer PDR-609
3.8 stars
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Ljeff13's Review of Pioneer PDR-609 CD Player

8th Mar 2009

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    4.5 stars
  • Sound Quality
    3.5 stars
  • Time CD Player Owned
    Over 1 Year
  • Features
    4 stars

For me, it does what it says on the tin. Pioneer PDR-609 makes CD copies from pretty well any source, and as long as you read the instruction booklet you get excellent results: copying via coaxial from CD to CD-R or CD-RW gives you a copy which is to my ears (and through a very analytical system) identical to the original. Ditto if you want to record from a high-quality analogue front-end - your CD copy will contain exactly what is on your source, and you know it will play on any machine. As a CD player, it sounds OK for most purposes, but I would always prefer to listen through a quality dedicated player. I found it a bit fiddly to use, not quite as user-friendly from analogue source as it could be. The analogue recording facility only works automatically if the source is very clean (i.e. if breaks between tracks are v quiet), so if you are not critical about quality and want more convenience you may prefer one of the cheap turntable/USB units which link to your computer. That will presumably be OK for iPod and download sound quality. Also the Pioneer copies in real time, so it's much slower than a computer-based copy arrangement. CD-RW works fine but erasing from them is fiddly. Depends what you want. For top quality recording, and if you're prepared to accept the fiddly bits as above, I found it does the job really well.

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