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The Pioneer PDR-99 CD Recorder was among
the last, if not the last CD recorder in the Elite line. It had a list
price of $2000 and featured every cutting-edge audio engineering advancement
Pioneer had developed up to the very end of the 1990s. The photo above
shows the PDR-99 without the side panels.
The photo, features
and specifications listed below came from Pioneer's site for discontinued
models.

- Urushi Finish with Rosewood Side Panels
- Stable Platter Mechanism
- Allows for the Recording/Playback of Standard Format Compact Discs
- Records on Write-Once/Read-Many Compact Discs
- Integrated fs-converter (converts 48kHz or 32 kHz sampled sources to the
Standard CD Sampling Frequency of 44.1 kHz)
- 1 Bit DLC with Pulseflow D/A Converter
- Legato Link Conversion S
- Three-beam Differential push/pull pickup
- Recording/Playback Interfaces: Two Digital Interfaces (Coaxial and TOS),
One Analog Interface (Standard RCA Type)
- SCMS (Serial Copy Management System)
- Double-Deck Design (Servo and Digital Circuits separated from Audio
Components)
- "Talk Back" Input
- Auto Rec/Pause
- Auto Space Mute
- 4 Mode Recording: Automatic Digital-Source Synchro Recording (1 Track/All
Tracks); Manual Digital-Source Recording; Manual Analog-Source Recording
- Sampling Frequency, Digital Source, and Input Source Indicators
- Manual and Automatic Track Writing
- Previous Recording End Search
- FINALIZE (Table of Contents Write)
- Fade-in/Fade-out Recording
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