Pioneer SX1010

m1aman
m1aman Posts: 143
edited August 2011 in 2 Channel Audio
This is what I have in my PC room and I use it with a pair of M70s series II that I got from the Egg. (what a great deal) Thinking about getting into the Cambridge Azur series and replacing this. It has developed some static in the volume and/or balance knobs that I need to deal with. I have a near mint Pioneer SX950 I could use in it's place but I have grown a little tired of looking at it for now.

Love the wood on these units.
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited July 2011
    Get the controls cleaned and keep that bad boy. I had one of these years ago and just love the sound they make. Super warm.
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  • m1aman
    m1aman Posts: 143
    edited July 2011
    Joe08867 wrote: »
    Get the controls cleaned and keep that bad boy. I had one of these years ago and just love the sound they make. Super warm.

    Yep, I do plan on keeping it. Best receiver I have ever had.
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  • m1aman
    m1aman Posts: 143
    edited July 2011
    Rick88 wrote: »
    ^^^ +1. Also, if you are interested in selling the SX-950 let me know...:wink:

    I'll keep you in mind. Not ready to part with it at this exact moment. But in the future **** is a real possibility.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited July 2011
    That's a really nice unit. I've been getting into the 'Vintage' receiver scene recently--mostly due to a local listing for a Pioneer SX-3900 which I'm picking up (one of the last of the silver faces and the brief period of Pioneer Fluoroscans). Some Sansui and keiko's Yammie thread and GG's CR-1020, etc.

    May run the Pioneer with some Large Advents in a garage system. And possibly a Sansui G5500 in a basement workshop if I can find one at a good price--maybe with my Monitor 5s?

    But rumor has it that the SX1010 was the receiver that the later X50 and X80 series were modeled after (higher end receivers were engineered with the 1010 as a kind of template). What's that rated? 100W or 110W a channel--when receiver ratings were 'real'!

    I'd like to add my name as second in the list of potential buyers after Rick88 as well. But, personally, I wouldn't sell that baby.

    The guy I'm buying my unit from has an SX-1250 as well as a number of others. That's a sweet piece as well and god is it heavy--(I thought the SX-3900 was big at 44 lbs, but the 1250 is 20 lbs heavier.

    cnh
    Currently orbiting Bowie's Blackstar.!

    Polk Lsi-7s, Def Tech 8" sub, HK 3490, HK HD 990 (CDP/DAC), AKG Q701s
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  • DON73
    DON73 Posts: 516
    edited July 2011
    I bought a Pioneer 1010 in 1976. A couple years later the only Hi End store in town had a Macintosh technician in town to work on some of their Macs. While he was there I carried the big 1010 in to see if he would do a test on it. He was very eager to do the test I think so he could compare the Pioneer to the Macs and demonstrate how inferior the Pioneers were. He went thru several tests and found that it produced about 120 watts in one channel and over 110 in the other. He also said in was stable at 4ohms.
    I know wattage is no real life indication of sound but the 1010 is what it is or was a very powerful receiver that sounded very nice driving my Polk Monitor 10s and my ADS L710s.
    TO ERR IS HUMAN. TO FORGIVE IS CANINE.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited July 2011
    nice piece of hardware and very aesthetically pleasing example of the "blackout dial" school of design. When one considers how dreadful most other things looked in the mid-1970s, the clean elegance of hifi equipment of the era is ironically striking ;-)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited August 2011
    The blackout dial fell out of fashion in the next generation of Japanese hifi.
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  • soundfreak1
    soundfreak1 Posts: 3,414
    edited August 2011
    Cleaning the pots is not a big expence. Well worth having done.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited August 2011
    Get yourself a kit from CAIG. It will provide you all kinds of tweaks and clean-up solvents to handle any job.

    I'd alos take that Pioneer when you want to move it.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • DON73
    DON73 Posts: 516
    edited August 2011
    I think the black out feature of the 1010s make it and every other receiver with this feature the best looking of all Pioneer receivers. The silver series are nice but they don't have the beauty of the blue lights and blackout. I have 3 of them. Need to get rid of two:biggrin::biggrin:
    TO ERR IS HUMAN. TO FORGIVE IS CANINE.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited August 2011
    DON73 wrote: »
    I think the black out feature of the 1010s make it and every other receiver with this feature the best looking of all Pioneer receivers. The silver series are nice but they don't have the beauty of the blue lights and blackout. I have 3 of them. Need to get rid of two:biggrin::biggrin:
    I think so, too (I already said that, though, in so many words, didn't I?).

    The SX-1010 was the first and (I'd opine) the best of the Pioneer super-receivers. The next model series, in fairness, featured the SX-1050 and 1250, which are also quite nice. The mongo SX-1980 of the following series was just too disco and too much, if you ask me ;-)

    SX-1980p1.jpg


    EDIT: FWIW, here's the only blackout Pioneer I have; SX-727 (one model series before the one to which the SX-1010 belonged, not to mention several rungs down the ladder from the top)
    727-2.jpg
    EDIT: Not my photo; photo taken by "John in MA".

    Sorry for this gratuitous post :-)
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  • bamark
    bamark Posts: 32
    edited August 2011
    I'd take that 727 any day. I own a 650 and a recapped 850.
    Love the looks...
    Office:
    Pioneer SX-650
    Pioneer RG-1
    BSR EQ-110X
    Technics SL-23
    Polk Monitor 5's
    Samsung DVD M101 (transport)
    Entech Number Cruncher 203.2

    Living Room:
    Pioneer SX-850
    Pioneer SG-9500
    Pioneer HPM-60's
    JVC XL-V161 CD Player
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  • DON73
    DON73 Posts: 516
    edited August 2011
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    I think so, too (I already said that, though, in so many words, didn't I?).



    No.
    TO ERR IS HUMAN. TO FORGIVE IS CANINE.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited August 2011
    in so many words...
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    nice piece of hardware and very aesthetically pleasing example of the "blackout dial" school of design. When one considers how dreadful most other things looked in the mid-1970s, the clean elegance of hifi equipment of the era is ironically striking ;-)
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  • stuwee
    stuwee Posts: 1,508
    edited August 2011
    Absolutely a keeper, as you know. When I was receiver hunting way back in '05, my landlord was watching me bid on Marantz 2270's, and told me to get a 1010, I laughed :tongue:

    Sorry, I had to say that. I've always wanted one, but I'm still glad I got the Marantz
    Thorens TD125MKII, SME3009,Shure V15/ Teac V-8000S, Denon DN-790R cass, Teac 3340 RtR decks, Onix CD2...Sumo Electra Plus pre>SAE A1001 amp>Martin Logan Summit's
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  • DON73
    DON73 Posts: 516
    edited August 2011
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    in so many words...




    The blue lights give the blackout design more impact than just about any other color. In so many words:smile:
    TO ERR IS HUMAN. TO FORGIVE IS CANINE.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited August 2011
    10-4. Never cared as much for the green ones (not to mention the pinkish color on the Superscope-branded Marantz receivers!).
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  • stuwee
    stuwee Posts: 1,508
    edited August 2011
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    10-4. Never cared as much for the green ones (not to mention the pinkish color on the Superscope-branded Marantz receivers!).

    GTFO! Dude, the 'Mauve' Superscope is a classic :cool:
    Thorens TD125MKII, SME3009,Shure V15/ Teac V-8000S, Denon DN-790R cass, Teac 3340 RtR decks, Onix CD2...Sumo Electra Plus pre>SAE A1001 amp>Martin Logan Summit's
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited August 2011
    de gustibus non est disputandum ;-)
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  • cembros
    cembros Posts: 172
    edited August 2011
    that black out unit looks awesome.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited August 2011
    stuwee wrote: »
    GTFO! Dude, the 'Mauve' Superscope is a classic :cool:

    How 'bout HH Scott Orange...?

    DSC_1540.jpg

    or HH Scott Blue?

    Scott312D.jpg

    ... sorry, pretty egregious thread-hijack :-(
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  • jtgranby
    jtgranby Posts: 887
    edited August 2011
    Pulled out the SX 1010 cleaned her up hooked her up to some NHT Super Zero's Left channel sounds great but the right channel is distorted all well no time to fiddle with it now back to the basement.

    Jim
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