Vintage Digital

User Review

Incredible Machine!

By James Mather

Sound Quality 100%
Build Quality 100%
Usefullness 100%
Mojo/Funk 50%
Reliability 90%

The Sony PCM-9000 was an incredible machine that would probably still stand up today from a sound quality point of view. They were dear as poison when they were released (around US$20K) and go for chicken feed today which is crazy in itself. The timing for the release of the PCM-9000 was right when hard drives were taking over, but still, it’s success as a master recorder for archiving would have sustained it for a while I am sure. Anyway, great machine from a great time in Sony’s professional audio products peak period.