Missing Link: Pioneer PD-D9

摘要

Pioneer Corporation is a global leader in the consumer electronics market, and its ethos of 'Sound Vision and Soul' is said to be at the heart of its business - stirring stuff!The focus of our attention here is the new PD-D9 Super Audio CD player, a front end for the new A9 integrated amplifier. The first thing that surprised me about the D9 was its physical weight, at 10.5kg certainly heavy enough to stake a claim as a 'serious bit of kit'. The packing carton and front fascia sport logos from Air Studios, one of London's top recording studios (set up by Sir George Martin in the 1970s), as it worked with Pioneer to tune the PD-D9.