{"id":8223,"date":"2025-10-11T10:03:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T08:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/?page_id=8223"},"modified":"2025-11-05T20:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:37:58","slug":"pioneer-pd-8500-reference-1993-2001","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/istillplayvinyl\/alta-fedelta\/il-mio-impianto\/pioneer-pd-8500-reference-1993-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer PD 8500 Reference (1993-2001)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of 1992, I stumbled upon a Pioneer CD player from the Reference series, the PD-8500; nothing special but with good reading mechanics, heavy weight, honeycomb base structure, dampened CD tray and the acclaimed Burr-Brown 24-bit converters (other than 1-bit! A few years later, multibit converters proved superior to bitstream, at least in some cases). I shelled out 230 thousand Lire and from January 1993 my digital source was still the weak link of my system, but at least it was a more dignified one. Finally I was able to listen to some things my beloved loudspeakers were capable of!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_699\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hifi-cd_pioneer_pd8500_a.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-699\" class=\"wp-image-699 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hifi-cd_pioneer_pd8500_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hifi-cd_pioneer_pd8500_a.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hifi-cd_pioneer_pd8500_a-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pioneer PD8500 Reference<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of 1992, I stumbled upon a Pioneer CD player from the Reference series, the PD-8500; nothing special but with good reading mechanics, heavy weight, honeycomb base structure, dampened CD tray and the acclaimed Burr-Brown 24-bit converters (other than 1-bit! A few years later, multibit converters proved superior to bitstream, at least in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":632,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8227,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8223\/revisions\/8227"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}