Pioneer A-40AE

摘要

Having recently achieved the grand old age of 80 years, the Pioneer Corporation is rightly celebrating the fact. While some believe that all Japanese companies are the same - faceless consumer electronics giants with sprawling factories full of robots, making generic white goods -anyone who's lived in Japan knows this couldn't be further from the truth. In practice, each organisation has its distinct identity and corporate culture, going about things in its own special way. Some lead where others follow, and Pioneer is a prime example of this, having played a pre-eminent role in the development of sound and vision [see boxout, p69]. Without this venerable Japanese giant, it's fair to speculate that the specialist hi-fi and home theatre worlds might have been quite different.