I would definitely recommend the Pioneer

Thank you Pioneer for offering such a fine piece of equipment at a fair price.

The Pioneer is faster and sounds better

The Pioneer is easy to use and load, changes quickly, smoothly and quietly, and has some nice program options

One caveat is Pioneer's recommendation that, if the device must be moved, it should be unloaded/reloaded rather than be transported full.

The Pioneer is reliable, sounds great and can play every track on every cd

Recently, my 20 yr old Pioneer PD-M6 bit the dust, so I went shopping for another Pioneer CD player and found this 300 disc player

The Pioneer PD-F1009 has worked perfectly, easy to set-up and no glitches with respect to play

Pioneer used to issue new fleets of components every year or so, changing the numbers as they went

If the CD happens to have CD+Text on it (or you don't mind burning a new copy of each CD in your collection with the text added), the Pioneer will display the text, but you still can't search and select music in a convenient way.

The Pioneer just shows the track number