Welcome to AC! Many moons ago (that's what happens when one is old
), I owned a slightly shorter Pioneer studio rack, I got it when Best Products Stores (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Products#:~:text=The%20last%20Best%20stores%20closed%20on%20February%209%2C%201997.) was closing their stores. I picked it up for $90 including the rack and a whole bunch of rack mount kits. I ordered $50 worth of parts from Pioneer directly to have all the parts for the kits. Back then the rack and kits was over $700 retail. I had the TV tuner (TVX 9500) and the cassette deck with the blue LEDs (CTF-388?). I had a friend who worked at a store that mainly dealt in used equipment taken in. He had the reel to reel with the blue LEDs (forget if it was the 707 or 909) and one other. I knew he craved what I had gotten. His store had taken a Nakamichi 680 cassette deck in trade and I wanted that. So we made the swap. I kept the TV tuner as he didn't need that and my first HT surround (way before Dolby was available in the home) was using the Pioneer TV tuner with rear speakers hooked up to an old Koss time delay (
https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Audio/Archive-Stereo-Review-IDX/IDX/80s/HiFI-Stereo-Review-1980-01-OCR-Page-0027.pdf), The Koss had a crappy 15wpc amp and I had an old SAE (3100) 50wpc amp laying around so I used that with the Koss unit. People used to be amazed when I watched a movie at home. There was no stereo TV or VCRs back then. The Pioneer TV tuner was dual mono of course.
