PIONEER PD-M90X Magazine CD Player (1987)

still waiting on the manual.

he DID promise me that he has not forgotten, and that he was not able to get it out to me cause he had to take off back east the day after he met me with the player. (i believe he is a journalist) i'll give him another week before i ring him again. as an aside, he said he has a PIONEER A-91D integrated. when the manual finally comes, i'll go ahead and ask him if he's willing to part with it. like i really need it, or anything, it not being remote controllable (a KEY factor with me, as i often listen to music when i'm busy with hobbies, Etc. and do not wish to have to drop what i'm doing to run over to manually change volume and settings all the time like all you old farts were forced to do once upon a time.

damn, got a semi-minor problem with this sucker. if i go to play a disc directly after power-up, the player behaves as if it's having difficulty syncing to the disc, whether factory CD or CD-R, and sometimes starts to play, with a popping sound as the only output, and the time counter momentarily fritzes out at random, displaying letters instead of time count. (perhaps a fault code?) now, if i leave it sit for 5/10 mins. or so, it starts playing perfectly, as quick and sure-footedly as the PD-91. it continues to function flawlessly until power-off, and i go to test it out again some time later. does anybody have any ideas about this? it sounds like a flaky cap to me. like a vital cap in the playback electronics that needs several minutes to charge up...