Pioneer CLD-3080 upgrade or mod? Want a "play everything" player but this doesn't hav

[ChrisW6ATV]

The CLD-3080 is a big step above the CLD-1010. It has, if I remember right, two-sided play, and it has digital memory for freeze and slow motion on Extended Play discs (90% or more of the discs made after 1980).

An AC-3 output is only used for the specific 5.1-channel sound on some of the mid-to-late-1990s discs, and beside that connection on the player, you also need the matching AC-3 decoder or demodulator device, and those are still relatively rare and expensive even now. That device converts the "AC-3 RF" signal into baseband Dolby Digital, essentially another S/PDIF connection. (The S/PDIF connector on the player is only used for digital-sound stereo (or Dolby Surround) discs (most discs made after 1985-86), and for CDs.