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I have a Kenwood KR 5400 receiver and Marantz 5 disc CD changer. Been looking for some good vintage speakers to match to it. I ended up with a pair of Klipsch KG 3.2 speakers I managed to pick up for $75. The cabinets are a little rough, but the grills are pristine, as are the cones. I plugged...

Hello, I own a Kenwood KX-1003 (same like a KENWOOD KX-1030 but with a gunmetal plate) and I'm looking for a resistor. Got the tape deck but sadly the BIAS/ADJUST-control is broken. I removed everything and saw that the resistor spindle is damaged. So I need a new resistor and I'm looking for...

Hello everyone, I have been struggling with my KA-7002's Idle current adjustment. Unfortunately the service manual isn't so clear. So far I have: Connected 2 dummy loads of 80ohms each to each channel on speaker terminals. Connected a 1 Khz signal through aux port. (Manual says main but if I do...

Hello all. My receiver is working perfectly, except one anoying thing: Tuner is working, I can tune stations and save them on memory. But RDS is not working! there are no stations names or info. only the station frequency. Also, when Im memorizing the stations, the memory button becomes...

Hello dear group, I am asking for help. The problem is the lack of stereo in the tuner. The signal is very good. After connecting the antenna, it searches for stations well. It even finds them on the right band. However, once he caught one station on the stereo, but it lasted for a while. I...

I've been using this beautiful unit for a little while now and thought everything was fine, although a bit crunchy when pressing buttons. The Sound has the 'warm' feeling from old caps and the power supply caps for sure need to be replaced, hence that thread. The first owner was my father, unit...

Hi all. I just picked this deck up. It was making a high pitch squeal when playing at first, and the left VU meter was maxing out. I was able to correct this by spraying deoxit in the record play switches and working the record button a number of times. I also replaced the drive belt, cleaned...

I'm restoring a Kenwood KR-5600 that was in working condition, at least I know the FM and the Tape inputs were working, and I started with the power supply. The KR-5600 has a history of heat problems with its design, so I boosted the clumped resistors to 3 watts and the caps to UPW 100/50v...

I'm restoring a Kenwood KR-5600 that was in working condition, at least I know the FM and the Tape inputs were working, and I started with the power supply. The KR-5600 has a history of heat problems with its design, so I boosted the clumped resistors to 3 watts and the caps to UPW 100/50v...

Hi everyone, I managed to get a very nice Kenwood KD-5033 for practically free at an estate auction and had a question regarding the Automatic (record size) / Manual selector knob operation. I'm able to run the table in manual mode without issue and I can move the selector knob to '17' in order...

Picked up a decent KR-4070. Opened it up. Blew out the dust. Cleaned ALL controls with De-oxit.Set the DC ibias to specs. Gladly everything works, all channels, No scratchy sound. Aux, Tape, FM all work, BUT the AM is totally dead. Meters don't budge a mm and they work fine on FM. Even gets...

Hello, I'm searching since a few days but I find no answer: The KA-9100 has two phono inputs. A friend told me one is for a MM the other for a MC cartridge. Sadly I find nothing in the manual or somewhere else. Is this true? Or are both inputs for MM (or MC)? Thanks a lot for any help. Peter

Hello, and first sorry for my bad English: I'm German I got an Kenwood KX-1030 tape deck from 1977 - the year I was born. For sure I inspected the tape deck and ordered new belts. I opened the deck and did the replacement of the flat belt like described here (...

Hi everyone. I have a Kenwood ka-9100 amplifier that I would like to restore. However after reading the restoration threads on this forum and noticing that many of the transistors used as replacements are obsolete and NLA. I am wondering if anyone has recently made a list of replacement...

Hi guys, Does anyone have any info on these speakers? Not much online. Considering buying them for use on either my sansui 5900z of my kenwood ka8300. What are your thoughts? Thanks!

Audiokarma gurus, I've got what seems to be an uncommon problem based on my research. Here is my problem: I want to be able to us my Kenwood C2 control amp, M2 power amp, and SS-79 surround processor to do both stereo music listening and Dolby 5.1 surround sound. The SS-79 is too old to decode...

Fellow Kenwood aficionados, I have read several threads on this topic however I am relatively new to stereo troubleshooting and the volume of information is kind of overwhelming and I wasn't necessarily finding my exact scenario in these older threads. I recently acquired a C2 preamp and M2...

Hello, this is my first post on this site. I will try to be as specific as I can. I recently acquired a Kenwood Power Amplifier (Basic M2A) from someone I knew. When I first plugged it in there was no power. I decided to opened it up to check what might be the problem and I saw that both the...

My fellow Audiophiles, I have recently acquired the elegant Silverface Kenwood KA-8300 integrated amplifier, but this beauty needs our help to achieve her former glory; she is missing thy volume knob. If any of you audio nerds out there have a volume knob laying around for this amp, and have...

Hello, I recently purchased a Kenwood KR-1000. Which gets some flak in these threads over the design of the unit, but regardless of its looks, it has some serious power. I see this on the back of the unit, and begin asking myself..."does that mean I can run two 4ohm sets of speakers (B+C) and...

Recently found this amp in my grandpa's attic. Plugged it in and switched it on and was able to get the red power light to come on for a millisecond. Was able to do this a couple more times until it stopped completely. I took off the top panels and tested the 4 fuses I could see. They are fine...

Thanks to all who helped. This Kenny sounds just as good as it looks like. imho. video:

Just reaching out to the larger Kenwood community to see what people have done lately.....I'm in the process of restoring a Kenwood KR-7600 and am trying to find a replacement for various transistors on the Power Amp (X07-1450-11) board. When searching the forums, a lot of the recommendations in...

Greetings Kenwood crew. I recently bought a stack of Kenwood components and have been enjoying getting things running and starting my hi fi audio journey. Here are my components: KA-127 Stereo Integrated Amp - 125 watt peak output - 8 to 16 ohms - A and B channels with L and R each for total...

Hey guys, hoping to figure out whats going on with this problematic KR-5400 I recently picked up.. As always I usually plug it in on the dimbulb just to make sure it powers on ok and once the relay clicks and the bulb remains off ill unplug and start the cleaning process / audio testing etc...