CT-91 Tape Recorder

CT-93 Tape Recorder (photos: courtesy Rob Green) 

The CT-93 was the last Elite cassette recorder having the traditional Elite look with rosewood side panels. It employed all the latest noise reduction technologies available at the time--around the early 1990s. Like all Elite components from this decade, it is most collectable. Your old cassette collection would certainly sound best on this unit.

D-1000 DAT Recorder

The D-1000 DAT Recorder was conceived and manufactured in the midst of a digital format battle in the electronic industry in the late 1980s. AIWA was the first Japanese manufacturer to introduce a DAT deck in February 1987. Other manufacturers followed. However, several years later Phillips released a different format called the DCC, or Digital Compact Cassette. A format battle ensued, much like the the VHS and Beta video format battle years before. However, DAT survived and is still used today, although CD recorders are the primary challenger to DAT.

Pioneer chose to market a Digital Audio Tape deck, the D-1000.  It would appear it was manufactured for only a year or two in 1988 or 1989; when I have definitively got production dates I will include it here.