Vintage Kenwood
 

I have always had a soft spot for Kenwood gear. I guess it's because my very first piece of stereo gear that I bought with my own money was a Trio receiver (Kenwood parent company), back before Kenwood was imported into the US. I bought my Trio receiver (15 watts per channel) at the US Navy Exchange in Yokosuka, Japan in 1967.

I have owned several Kenwood integrated amps, a Kenwood tuner, and a Kenwood cassette deck. I always found Kenwood gear built during the 70' to be very well designed, built with a high degree of craftsmanship, and performed very well. To this day, I still find myself fascinated with vintage Kenwood gear, especially the integrated amplifiers. Anyone else a Kenwood fan?


Kenwood KA-9150
http://i453.photobucket.com/albums/q...woodKA9150.jpg

I am fond of their L series tuners, preamps, and monoblock amps, brought back to spec they are some rather formidable gear.
Regards,
Jim

Kenwood made some very nice direct drive turntables during the 70's, as well. This is a beauty, the KD-7010, now commanding about four times its original price of $360.00.


http://i453.photobucket.com/albums/q...woodKD7010.jpg


http://i453.photobucket.com/albums/q...oodKD7010a.jpg

Dan
I had one that looked very similar to that except that it was silver if I remember.

I owned the Kenwood KT-8300 tuner. As I remember, it pulled in FM stereo stations with excellent sound, had a nice weighted flywheel tuning knob, and was built to last. Analog tuners produced some excellent sound. I do remember the dial light was bright enough to light the room.


http://i453.photobucket.com/albums/q...-8300Tuner.jpg

Dan...although I never owned any Kenwood gear, I shared the same opinion of their gear in that era. Than same applies to 70's vintage Sansui gear.

Pete

The Kenwood KA-8100 was a very nice integrated amplifier. I owned one for a few years that I used as a system in the basement when I lived in Oregon. These amps were back in the day when knobs were solid machined and ploished aluminum, not plastic with an aluminum cap pressed on. This integrated amps was very nice.


http://i453.photobucket.com/albums/q...oodKA-8100.jpg


http://i453.photobucket.com/albums/q...odKA-8100a.jpg

The Kenwood KA-907 was a serious integrated amplifier, twin independent power supplies, dual mono configuration, 150 watts per channel into 8 ohms, seperate preamp outputs/amp inputs, original side panels and handles.


http://www.hifi-museum.com/temp/misc/a/ken_ka907.jpg


http://www.audioinnovationen.de/asse...A907-offen.jpg


http://www.audioscope.net/images/kenwoodka9072.jpg

Beautiful pics guys. I'm fond of Kenwoood also. Those were the good days and I remember the cool audio ads. My jewerler is a Kenwood fan and has some of the gear mentioned. Nice gear.

Dave

Dave.......I wouldn't mind owning a Kenwood KA-907 like the one above. Kenwood was making some serious gear back in the 70's.