kenwood kr-8050

Soooooo…totally unexpectedly, yesterday I found myself the owner of a Kenwood KR-8050. I’ll apologize in advance for the length of this, but it seems these are fairly uncommon units so I wanted to give some information on it that I’ve observed, foster some conversation on it that others may find...

Hello, all I have a Kenwood KR-8050 that has (most of the time) no sound when using FM. If the receiver sits overnight, the next day, I get FM stereo from a strong local station for a minute or two, then then audio quickly dwindles to nothing. When it's working, the audio is somewhat...

Yet another project for rebuild. The candidate is a KR-8050. Have rebuilt a couple of the KR-8010s in the last year or two. The KR-8050 is touch newer. It was found with a busted bass potentiometer, dirty, and knobs surfaces less than perfect. Saw one of the years before and when this...

I am new here to the forum, have read a lot of comments but this is my first thread. Please be patient with me as I have only just started to collect vintage audio receivers and am not electronics savvy. I live in south Texas and there is not too much of a market for vintage receivers down...