Want to buy a Pioneer RFD-1 Demodulator
Marshall
As for this posting, just like the title says, I'm looking to buy a Pioneer
RFD-1 Demodulator. I have many Pioneer and Pioneer Elite products which I
love and from what I've read, it seem the Pioneer would be the best, at
least for me.
I spent the weekend scouring Ebay and almost every city on Craigslist and
came up empty with the one exception of one on Ebay, but the price seems to
be going up and up fairly fast and there is still 5 days left.
So....if anybody is selling theirs or thinking about selling theirs, please
send me a private message with your price, including shipping with a
tracking number. I can pay through PayPal.
Thanks
Eugene Pokopac
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> Hello folks. First off, thank you to those that answered my AC-3 question.
> As for this posting, just like the title says, I'm looking to buy a Pioneer
> RFD-1 Demodulator. I have many Pioneer and Pioneer Elite products which I
> love and from what I've read, it seem the Pioneer would be the best, at
> least for me.
Congratulations on picking the demodulator which is in highest demand,
making it one of the most expensive & hardest to get. If you were
willing to settle for one of the other models, you could get it
cheaper & sooner.
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Oliver Brose
He seems to know what he wants ;)
Anyway, if cost is not an issue, why not? The Pioneer seems to be a very
elegant solution for saving a precious digital input on your receiver. I
simply bought a <$10 optical switch to fend off the dreaded drought of
inputs, but then I also have no pretty Elite Setup to match up.
Really, Marshall, unless you truly don't have to care, the little
Yamahas will work just as well at amuch better price. Demods all do the
same.
Oliver
Marshall
>
> He seems to know what he wants ;)
> Anyway, if cost is not an issue, why not? The Pioneer seems to be a very
> elegant solution for saving a precious digital input on your receiver. I
> simply bought a <$10 optical switch to fend off the dreaded drought of
> inputs, but then I also have no pretty Elite Setup to match up.
>
> Really, Marshall, unless you truly don't have to care, the little Yamahas
> will work just as well at amuch better price. Demods all do the same.
>
> Oliver
Oliver,
Thanks for your input. While I have plenty of inputs on my reciever, this
would be just to get the 5.1 from the disc that have it encoded. And while
I admit, I do love Pioneer, I am open to other brands. Especially when the
Pioneer may be hard to find. Since the 5.1 on LD would be a new thing for
me, I'm guessing that when I want to select the AC-3 track ( if applicable
on the disc ) then I would just select the RIGHT audio track from the CLD-99
menu ? And if I want to hear stereo or mono, just select BOTH the right &
left from the menu and use an optical cable that would be going into my
reciever.
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> Oliver,
> Thanks for your input. While I have plenty of inputs on my reciever, this
> would be just to get the 5.1 from the disc that have it encoded. And while
> I admit, I do love Pioneer, I am open to other brands. Especially when the
> Pioneer may be hard to find. Since the 5.1 on LD would be a new thing for
> me, I'm guessing that when I want to select the AC-3 track ( if applicable
> on the disc ) then I would just select the RIGHT audio track from the CLD-99
> menu ? And if I want to hear stereo or mono, just select BOTH the right &
> left from the menu and use an optical cable that would be going into my
> reciever.
You don't have to do that at all.
Since the AC-3 is on the disc in place of an analog audio track, it
will never affect what comes out the digital connectors. Any player
which came from the factory with an AC-3 output will simply behave,
when playing, as though the R/02 FM channel does not exist, so, IF you
use the ANALOG audio outputs AND select ANALOG audio so that they do
not get the decoded digital signal (as they usually do), you will get
L/01 on both red & white jacks.
To hear the 5.1 audio, you will switch to the digital input you have
the output from the demodulator connected to (or the 5.1 analog input,
if you have an outboard decoder). To hear the digital audio, you will
switch to the digital input you use all the time for digital-audio
LDs. To hear the analog audio, you will have to switch to the analog
inputs. It can get a little confusing. The Pioneer decoder's
autoswitching function is supposed to help by passing the digital
audio from your LD along, unless it detects AC-3 RF, in which case it
passes digital AC-3 from the demod chip instead. If the AC-3 &
digital soundtracks are substantially different, this is actually an
inconvenience.
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