INDEPENDENT TEST REPORT: KENWOOD HAS BETTER TRANSIENT RESPONSE THAN PIONEER, TECHNICS OR YAMAHA.
Recently, we asked an independent testing laboratory to measure Kenwood's new Hi-Speed receiver against the competition. Each one "off the shelf" in unbroken factory cartons.
The results were impressive, if not surprising.
The Kenwood receiver outperformed comparable models of other brands in both rise time and slew rate, the same new specifications that are used to measure a receiver's ability to handle complex musical signals.
KENWOOD
KR-7050 / .85 ps RISE TIME ( 5 MICROSECOND CLOCK)
Of course, the Kenwood receiver had one unfair advantage: Kenwood's exclusive Hi-Speed circuitry.
Hi-Speed allows an amplifier section to react faster to changes in music to minimize audible transient intermodulation distortion.
In the laboratory, this shows up as superb specs and an almost perfect square wave on an oscilloscope.
In your home, you'll hear superior clarity and definition with excellent imaging. For example, you'll be able to identify an individual singer in a vocal group.
SLEW RATE MEASUREMENT RESULTS
Your Kenwood dealer can show you the entire line of Hi-Speed receivers.
Because if you're going to buy a receiver, why not go with the best performer?
HI-SPEED---Hear the future of high fidelity--- KENWOOD
For the Kenwood dealer nearest you, see your Yellow Pages, or write:
Kenwood, P.O. Box 6213, Carson, CA 90749.
Test data available upon request.
Rise time and slew rate measured by slope at zero crossing method.
(High Fidelity, Jan. 1980)
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Sansui Select System (ad, Jan. 1980)
Aiwa AD-6900MK II cassette deck [ad]
Carver Model C-4000 Sonic Holography/Autocorrelation control preamplifier (review, Jan. 1980)