The Pioneer PD-M510 CD player uses a 6-disc cartridge as you can see in the above photo. I added three discs and inserted the “cart” into the player. Bad luck, nothing played. The machine pulled the CD into position, and then zip! What’s up with that?
There’s an old saying, “When in doubt, read the instructions.” Duh! Well, as it turns out, reading the instructions is a good thing. Bad news had turned to good news, I think. I put the CDs into the cartridge in the manner that is most common on other machines, that is, label side up and data side down.
Unfortunately, this CD player is not “normal”. The CDs go into the cartridge data side UP and label side DOWN. This is opposite of every other CD player I have seen. I reversed the CDs and now we will try another test. Stay tuned!