Archive category
Pioneer
The original site's Pioneer category holds a single page, a company history focused on its founder, Nozomu Matsumoto, and the A-8 dynamic speaker of 1937 that gave the company its name. It is worth reading alongside Wikipedia, which dates the founding to 1938 in Tokyo rather than the original page's 1936 in Osaka; our note on the page sets out the difference.
Pioneer's best-known vintage equipment is not tube-based. Its silver-faced SX receivers of the 1970s are the models most collectors look for today, and they share the hobby's usual problems: dried capacitors, dirty switches and lamps that need replacing.
See the Pioneer maker page for the company's history through its 2014 agreement to sell its home audio business to Onkyo.
