Kenwood KX-9050 S
Data
General
- Manufacturer: Kenwood
- Model: KX-9050 S (with Dolby S)
- Type: Cassette Tape Deck
- Years of manufacture: 1992 - 1997
- Made in: Japan
- Color: Black
- Remote control: Yes
- Dimensions (WxHxD): 440 x 138 x 328 mm
- Weight: 7.3 kg
- Original price approx.: 1.300 DM (with remote control 1.350 DM)
Connections
- Inputs 3
Stereo Cinch (RCA), gold-plated Stereo Cinch "CD Direct in Kenwood system bus (for Kenwood systems)
- Outputs 3
- Stereo Cinch (RCA), gold-plated
Kenwood system bus (for Kenwood systems) Headphone output
Technical Data
- 3 "Amorphous Alloy PC-OCC" sound heads
- 4 motors
- Dolby B / C / S NR
- Dolby HX-Pro
- MPX filter
- Signal-to-noise ratio: Dolby C: 75 dB, Dolby B: 67 dB, without Dolby: 59 dB (both with metal band)
- Distortion: less than 0.7
- Uniformity: 0.024 % (WRMS), 0.05 % (DIN unweighted), 0.13 % (DIN weighted= top grade, for details see Stereo 5/1992, p.56)
Frequency response:
- 20 - 19,000 Hz (normal band),
- 20 - 19,000 Hz (CrO2 band),
- 20 - 22,000 Hz (metal band)
Special Features
- dual-capstan drive with closed tape circuit (closed loop)
- direct drive (one belt less, good synchronisation)
- Dolby S in addition to the usual noise reduction systems Dolby B and C.
- 2 individually switchable displays with many display options and real-time counter
- Fast forward function
- CD-Direct input (gold-plated) for optimum copying of a CD
- Gold-plated Cinch sockets
- ACTS = automatic cassette deck calibration system (calibration computer)
- Title search (Index Scan)
- DPSS (Direct Programme Search System) = music track search for up to 16 tracks
- Block Repeat (A-B)
- CD Edit Recording
- Illuminated controls
- Silent Mechanism / Power Loading System (Automatically Operated Cassette Eject)
- Resettable digital real-time counter drive
- Repeat playback of a track
- Rewind with playback start
- Fast forward playback with blank sections
- System control jacks (remote control capability via matching amplifier)
- Recording with peak level search (peak hold)
- Remote control, remote control was optionally available for purchase
- Solid metal cassette door with plastic viewing window, firmly screwed in place and low vibration.
- Tone heads and tone shafts as well as pressure rollers sit on an iron die-cast block, low-vibration and stable over a long time.
Remarks
Other models of the same series:
Pictures
- Extract from brochure: Kenwood KX-9050 S
- Excerpt from Kenwood brochure Hifi '95
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Reports
- Audio 10/1992: Top class, 80 points, 4 ears
- Stereo 5/1992, single test p.52-56: Absolute top class, Excellent, 3 stars: "Inexpensive S-class, excellent sound, sensible equipment, appealing appearance."
- Stereoplay 5/1992: Top Class I, Reference (together with TEAC V-8000 S, Top Class I was added in 1991, previously only Top Class II)