Kenwood KAX-38

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General

  • Manufacturer: Kenwood
  • Model: KAX-38, component of the overall system Kenwood V-38
  • Type: integrated amplifier with double cassette tape deck and equalizer
  • Years of manufacture: 1988 - 1989
  • Made in: Japan
  • Colour: Black
  • Remote control: yes, system remote control
  • Power consumption:
  • Dimensions: 420 x 229 x 277 mm (WxHxD).

Weight:

  • New price system complete approx: 998 DM (without CD player, speakers).


Connections

  • Number of inputs:
    • Phone MM: 2.5 mV, 47 kOhm

CD: 150 mV, 47 kOhm

    • Tuner: 150 mV, 47 kOhm
    • AUX: 150 mV, 47 kOhm
  • Number of outputs:
    • Headphones:
    • 1 pair of speakers:


Specifications

Amplifier

  • Continuous power (at distortion)
    • 8 Ohm: 2x 35 W (RMS, 1 kHz)
    • 4 Ohm:
  • Dynamic power
    • 8 Ohm:
    • 4 Ohm:
  • Total harmonic distortion: 0.09 % THD at 8 Ohm
  • Attenuation factor: 50 at 8 Ohm
  • Frequency response:
    • Phono MM: 20 - 20'000 Hz
    • High level: 10 - 70'000 Hz, ± 3 dB
  • Signal to noise ratio:
    • Phono MM: 70 dB
    • High level: 97 dB
  • Tone control
    • Bass: ± 10 dB at 100 Hz

Treble: ± 10 dB at 10 kHz

  • Loudness:
  • High Filter:
  • Low Filter:


Tape Deck

  • Audio heads: 3 (1x head for playback tape A, 1x head for record and playback tape B, 2x ferrite head for erase)
  • Motors: 2 (servo controlled DC motor)
  • Synchronisation fluctuations: 0.15
  • Tape types: Normal, Chrome, Metal
  • Frequency response:
    • Normal: 30 - 14'000 Hz
    • Chrome: 30 - 15'000 Hz

Metal: 30 - 15'000 Hz

  • Distortion factor: < 1
  • Dolby: B
  • Signal-to-noise ratio:
    • Normal: 56 dB
    • with Dolby B: 64 dB
  • Auto Reverse:
  • Title search:
  • Premagnetization frequency: 105 kHz
  • Rewind time: 110 seconds for C-60


Equalizer

  • Tone control with 7 sliders
  • Equalizer center frequencies: 60 Hz, 150 Hz, 400 Hz, 1 kHz, 2.4 kHz, 6 kHz, 15 kHz

Control range ± 12 dB (in 2 dB steps)


Comments[edit]

  • Other models of the same series:
  • Integrated amplifier with double cassette tape deck and equalizer:
  • Kenwood KAX-38





Pictures[edit]

  • Extract from brochure: Kenwood System V-38

Kenwood System V-38-Prospekt-1988.jpg


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