Home > Consumer Reviews > Pioneer PD-F1009 301-Disc CD-File Changer

Great invention to those who don't want to be attached to an IPOD, and like an updated version of a "juke box". Easy to use, load, unfortunately however, it requires an receiving unit to broadcast the sound.

We have many Christmas CD's and others. The ability to random play is great. The remoted control did not work. The Pioneer people after a few phone switches promised that a new one is in the mail. It is only one month; but it should arive any day. *** I had hoped the remote that was all that was wrong. Product control must be off. I will now have to ship it back. the syptem will not allow me to change review from 3 star to the one star I would now give it.

It's plugged into my tuner but I still have to turn it on independently; it takes forever to select a track in random play; if random play is an option when listening to a customized play list, I can't figure out how to activate it; I can't get the 'best' option to work, and I can't play the adjacent disc without stopping the current disc, selecting '+/-' on the remote and then hitting the play button again. Granted, I'm neither an audiophile nor a rocket scientist and I'm no spring chicken either, but I shouldn't have to be any of those things in order to play my cds without getting aggravated. If I had another $300 to burn, I'd get something a LOT more user friendly. Like the SONY disc changer I used to have.

I bought one of these things and no sooner had I got 300 discks loaded into it when the damned thing stopped working. I had to unload all the discs by hand and now the machine sits in a closet gathering dust.