Pioneer PL-630

1 9 7 8 1978
1 9 7 9
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1979 +

preliminary

Like the previous image, this is from one of Pioneer's early 1980s staple worldwide 5-page ads : it says something on one double page but if you flip the left page, the three-page result gives the punch line - and details.
So the home image is here changed to a lab image by just changing left sides.


This is a 1980 USA ad, found in an AUDIO issue - I must have spent several hours cleaning the bad printing quality, the tears and skewed geometric correspondancs between pages. I know the result is far from being perfect but you should have seen what I started with !

From a 1980 german catalog which shows the very elegant styling better than the ads did - for once !


Not my scan, alas, and I never did find that catalog myself.

From a january 1980 AUDIO (USA) 2-page and a half review of the PL-630.

The pitch control pot (top right) is an ALPS.


Not a PLC-590 but we're still in very healthy neighborhood.

Spring loads and ball bearings.

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Turntable
Motors :


Drive :
Speeds :
Platter :

Inertia moment :
Noise floor :
Wow & flutter :
Speed accuracy :

Tonearm
Type :
Effective length :
Tracking force :
VTA :

Dimensions :
Weight :
List price :

Features

Turntable
1x Quartz PLL 6-poles brushless motor
with 3 Hall elements
1x Hall-DC-Servo for tonearm
Direct Drive
33 1/3 & 45rpm
Ø 33cm
aluminium Die-Cast
340kg/cm.
75dB (DIN B)
± 0,035% (DIN B)
± 0,002%

Tonearm
static balance, S-shape
23,7cm
4...12,5g
± 3mm

47 x 14,8 x 41,8cm
12kg.
449$ (1980)

Features
acryl / butadene / styrol composite base
aluminium baseplate
± 6% speed control
opto-electronic end-lift
bipolar ICs in the switching section
MOS ICs in the control section

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