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Pioneer CLD-1010 Laserdisc help

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I recently won a Pioneer CLD-1010 laserdisc player on ebay for pretty cheap.
I read the review of it here
http://www.laserdiscarchive.co.uk/laserdisc_archive/pioneer/pioneer_cld-1010/pioneer_cld-1010.htm

It says that it has good video quality, but what confuses me is the part where they talk about the audio output.
"Digital Audio reproduction is superb, and the 2X over sampling digital filter gives a clean, clear high-end, with none of the phase shift of Pioneers earlier players that incorporated brick wall analog filters. With each successive generation of Pioneer LaserDisc player, the analog FM audio seems to get worse. The sound is pumped in the midrange, giving voices and music a "cardboard" or "boxy" quality. Extreme treble is rolled off substantially, making it sound like bad FM radio. Deep bass is also noticeably absent, with the upper bass range, 80 Hz or so, emphasized. Voices take on a chesty character. This applies even to modern, CX encoded soundtracks. When listening to an audio commentary popular on many disc, the audio is acceptable."

I know that the player doesn't have an optical output but what kind of digital audio output is it talking about in that paragraph? Digital rca outputs or some sort of coax digital output? It says that the digital audio reproduction is superb, that then and mentions that the analog out sounds like crap.
I can't seem to find a picture on the web of the back of the laserdisc player, so that I can see what kind of output connections that it has.
If all else fails, I will just have to wait until it gets shipped to me.
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Isn't the back almost the same as the 1050?
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Originally posted by: Arnie.d
Isn't the back almost the same as the 1050?

I am guessing that it is the same.
Looks like I might try to resell this laserdisc player and find another one that has s-video output and toslink digital output.

Anybody recommend a good model to try and find.
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When the review talks about digital and analogue audio, it's referring to the tracks on the laserdisc.

Most laserdiscs have digital audio tracks; these are CD-quality 44.1kHz uncompressed PCM. Laserdiscs can also carry an analogue track; some discs use this track for commentaries (later a system was devised allowing modulated AC-3 to be stored on the analogue track). Early discs had analogue tracks only.

It sounds like your player can reproduce the digital track fine but is not so good at playing the analogue track. This is not really a problem unless you own some early analogue-only discs, or want commentaries with higher quality audio reproduction.

(There should be a button on the remote to switch between analogue and digital audio tracks.)

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Originally posted by: Moth3r
When the review talks about digital and analogue audio, it's referring to the tracks on the laserdisc.

Most laserdiscs have digital audio tracks; these are CD-quality 44.1kHz uncompressed PCM. Laserdiscs can also carry an analogue track; some discs use this track for commentaries (later a system was devised allowing modulated AC-3 to be stored on the analogue track). Early discs had analogue tracks only.

It sounds like your player can reproduce the digital track fine but is not so good at playing the analogue track. This is not really a problem unless you own some early analogue-only discs, or want commentaries with higher quality audio reproduction.

(There should be a button on the remote to switch between analogue and digital audio tracks.)

Thanks. That makes much more sense now about the audio tracks on the laserdiscs.
I just found a bnc to svideo adapter and going to order it and see how the picture quality is.


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Looks like I will be keeping this player since I found a nice BNC to S-Video adapter
I just wish it had a digital coax or toslink output for the audio, but I can live without it.

I will be using this player to do my preservations.