RARE All BLACK Pioneer RT-909 Reel to Reel Fully restored. Museum Condition

Extremely Rare

All Black Pioneer RT-909 
Fully Restored w lots of Extras

This is NOT the inferior Black and Silver version with silver buttons, dials and switches. The is the Fully BLACK RT-909 Noir. These are selling for $5000.00+ on other sites but my reserve is low. 

I have been hesitant to sell this unit but was able to find two of them (pictured) and it's time to let someone else enjoy the bliss of owning one. This ad is for 1 unit not 2. 

It is an absolutely stunning masterpiece in exceptional cosmetic and functional condition. Heads are in spectacular shape. It has been fully restored and tested.  Please contact me with any questions. If you are local to Southern California, you are welcome to audition it in person. Serious buyers only. I would prefer local pickup but will ship upon request. Optionally I can ship it in a heavily padded anvil road case. Shipping insurance is mandatory. Conus only. NO international shipping. NO weird payment requests.  I am socalhifidad on insta. A trusted and respected seller with 100% positive feedback on hundreds of high dollar items on multiple platforms spanning almost three decades.

If you have dreamed about having a 909, This is your chance to own an absolute beauty! Depending on the final winning bid amount, I will include numerous extras including the manual,  several metal reels, nab adapters,  master tape, a demagnetizer and more. Upon request, we can connect via video so you can see it in action. As with all vintage audio equipment, I do not accept returns  This is due to parts swappers.   

Description

The Pioneer RT-909 3-motor deck, with auto reverse / repeat playback and many more features, takes the open-reel format another important and impressive step ahead of anything available in the cassette format.

You're going to sense this the moment you see it, and hear it, in action. Features? It's another loaded deck from Pioneer. It not only accepts the conventional 7 inch reels, but also the professional size 10.5 inch diameter reels.

It gives an exceptionally wide frequency range of 20Hz to 28kHz (± 3dB) and, to match this outstanding performance, gives low wow / flutter of 0.04% or better, with both specifications measured at the 7.5 ips tape speed.

It mixes microphone inputs and line inputs, another advanced professional feature. And it allows instant comparison between the tape and the original, as well as azimuth adjustments of the heads. Add up all of this Pioneer perfection and there's no doubt that the RT-909 is made for the person who has major musical ambitions and strongly professional tastes.

And yet if you've never considered making the big move upward into open-reel, because you thought they were too complicated, you'll be happy to learn that Pioneer has equipped the RT-909 with the kind of features that only an open-reel novice could appreciate. Things like exceptional headroom (and flexibility) that means this open-reel format offers more overall performance in terms of dynamic range, distortion and noise than the best of cassette formats. And much more: convenient automatic reverse / repeat playback, tape-saving 3.75 ips speed, easy to read Fluroscan meter and 4 digit counter, timer start, LED indicators, and other features.

Are you ready for the move to open-reel perfection? Pioneer has made a beautiful deck and equipped it in such a way that it performs with the ease and perfection of a cassette deck.

Specifications

Track system: auto reverse, 4-track, 2-channel, stereo system

Heads: 2 x playback, 1 x record, 1 x erase

Motor: 2 x reel, 1 x capstan

Reel size: up to 10.5 inch reel

Tape speeds: 3 ³⁄₄  7 ¹⁄₂ ips

Wow and flutter: 0.04% (7 ¹⁄₂ ips)

Frequency response: 20Hz to 30kHz (7 ¹⁄₂ ips)

Signal to Noise Ratio: 60dB

Total harmonic distortion: 1%

Crosstalk: 50dB

Input: 50mV (line), 0.3mV (mic)

Output: 0.45V (line)

Semiconductors: 4 x FET, 43 x IC, 121 x transistors, 126 x diodes

Dimensions: 480 x 340 x 318mm

Weight: 21kg