EVERY YEAR, Hi-Fi COMPANIES MAKE MINOR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STATE OF THE
ART
This Year, Pioneer Discovered a New Art
Pioneer goes beyond state of the art electronics to make a major new contribution in human engineering.
Pioneer's new components bring tangible as well as audible advances to high fidelity.
In the past 40 years Pioneer has made countless contributions to the state of the art in High Fidelity. Now Pioneer is introducing new components that actually restate the art. We call it High Fidelity for Humans.
This year to a list of audible innovations and incredible specifications we have added human engineering features that give the owner of our equipment a new ability to control it and the quality of the sound it produces.
For example, Pioneer's new CT-9R, three direct drive motor cassette deck
has a Time Remaining with a digital readout that shows you how much recording
time is left on a tape. So you won't run out of tape before running out of
music. There's also an Index Scan feature that previews a tape by playing
the first five seconds of each piece of music.And to give the CT-9R an incredible
signal-to-noise ratio with extended high frequency response, Pioneer's engineers
developed RIBBON SENDUST tape heads with laminations 4 to 5 times thinner
than conventional Sendust heads. And only Pioneer has them.
Our new Quartz Synthesized F-9 Tuner has a Multipath Indicator that goes so far as to tell you when a signal is being reflected off nearby objects or buildings. So you can adjust your antenna for the best reception. It can also memorize six of your favorite FM and six AM stations and retrieve them instantly. And to make sure every one always sounds its best, our engineers combined two of our exclusive ID MOSFET transistors in a Push-Pull Front End circuit. When you tune in a weak station there's no worry about stronger stations causing distortion due to front end overload. And Quartz-PLL Synthesized tuning makes drift impossible.
Unique features on the new Pioneer A-9 Integrated Amp include a Subsonic Indicator. It lights up only when you need to use the Subsonic Filter to get rid of very low frequency interference caused by record warps and such. Inside, a new DC Servo circuit eliminates all capacitors from the signal path so they can't muddy up the signal. That gives you a purer signal with superb definition.
Pioneer's SX-7 Receiver brings you precise electronic control of most functions
including volume. The Auto Station Scan control previews the entire band
and eight FM and eight AM Memory Presets recall the stations you prefer instantly.
What's more, Pioneer's patented Non-Switching amp does away with one of the
most trouble some and audible forms of distortion--the noise generated when
output transistors switch on and sands of times a second.
Our new top-of-the-line
Linear Tracking PL-L800 is another feat of human engineering. It features
a linear motor that drives the tonearm across the track by electromagnetic
repulsion--another Pioneer innovation. So it's extraordinarily quiet with
no noisy belts, worm gears or pulleys and tracking error is virtually non-existent.
The tonearm itself is made of Polymer Graphite--an amazing material that
dampens resonance. And there's a coaxial suspension system that isolates
the platter and tonearm assembly. These features combine to keep what's
going on in the room around the turntable from becoming part of the music.
And all this is just the beginning. While the Pioneer concept of human engineering makes our components a pleasure to live with, Pioneer's innovative electronics and technology make them a pleasure to listen to. If you'd like to hear more, visit your nearby Pioneer dealer. You'll see and hear why Pioneer components are #1 with humans who care about music.
PIONEER-- WE BRING IT BACK ALIVE
(Source: Audio magazine, Aug. 1981)
Also see:
Pioneer F-90 tuner (Sept. 1983)
Pioneer electronics (ad, May 1974)
Pioneer CT-9R cassette deck (ad, Sept. 1981)
Pioneer PL-510 turntable (ad, May 1977)
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