Help with a Stereo (Kenwood)

Help with a Stereo (Kenwood)

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VEA

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4,785 posts

207 months

Thursday 29th April 2010
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OK, I have been given a stereo system by my uncle. I am wondering what to do with it as I do not really need a whole new stereo and this thing is rather large once all the peices are stacked up together.
These are the parts included:
All Kenwood
X-85 Cassette Deck
T-85L Tuner
DP-950 CD player
GE-850 Graphic equaliser
P-66 Turntable
A-85 Amplifier
LS-85 Speaker System

It seems like a fairly good system, is it worth anything? Or should I just flog it to a mate for a few quid?

Mr_Yogi

3,288 posts

261 months

Thursday 29th April 2010
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Right, I'll have a go. I think that's is a Midi system (slightly narrower [12"ish] than normal hifi separates [17"ish]) from around the mid 90's, probably called the M-85 going by the components you list.

Most of the components will share power so can't really be sold separately, with the exception of the Graphic Equalizer and CD player, which probably have their own mains plugs. The amp (and possibly the tunner) will also plug into the mains with the Cassette deck and turntable likely getting power from Amp/ tunner. there is also likely to be a load of other cables between all the units (in addition to the aidio cables) which send control signals back and forth, so when you press play on the CD player the amp will change the input to 'CD'. The problem with selling something like this is P&P as it's huge and only worth about £40-60, so you'll have to rely on someone local buying it.

That said it was probably near £800 new (maybe more) so probably a pretty decent sound. Kenwood stuff was well made and sounded good as a rule.



Edited by Mr_Yogi on Thursday 29th April 16:28

VEA

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4,785 posts

207 months

Thursday 29th April 2010
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Kind of what I suspected.

Thanks
!

Digby

8,283 posts

252 months

Sunday 2nd May 2010
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Worth a go flogging it, if this is anything to go by..

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Kenwood-Stereo-Graphic-Equal...

VEA

Original Poster:

4,785 posts

207 months

Tuesday 4th May 2010
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Wow, I didn't think I would be getting that much!

Guess selling the parts seperately will get me more!

Thanks.