I am selling off this extremely rare Kenwood super tuner from the days when FM Tuners were a preferred source and special care was taken to make them the best they could be. As some of you know I have a large collection of the best tuners. The tuner is in excellent condition with no obvious signs of wear, etc. All bulbs work and the tuner picks up stations wonderfully with sound that rivals many midpriced CD Players if you are in the right FM market. I have decided to thin the flock some before my upcoming move so I am posting this here first at a discounted price to see if there is any interest before I mess with all the E-bay mess. I will let this go to an established (no brand new members) head-fi member for $325 plus shipping and Paypal fees.
A little info on the tuner from FMTunerinfo website:
Kenwood L-07T (1978, $625, detector/MPX scheme: quadrature detector, charge injection cancellation discrete MPX switches, MPX PLL generated 38k with HA1156 chip)
The L-07T looks identical to the L-07TII described below, except that it's gun-metal gray in color rather than black, and its rack-mount holes are open on the outsides. Those two differences make the L-07T more "industrial-looking" than the L-07TII. We believe that the circuitry of the two tuners is mostly identical, but the L-07T uses a quadrature detector rather than the L-07TII's pulse count detector and also lacks the two extra ceramic filters that apparently run the L-07TII's meters. Here's a photo of the inside of the L-07T. Like the L-07TII, the L-07T has a 7-gang tuning capacitor and is also very sensitive and quite selective even in stock form (spec'd at 100 dB alternate channel selectivity in Narrow). Any filter modification should probably be done by a pro because the L-07T contains two Murata "Surface Acoustic Filters," specially designed by Kenwood, for the wide IF bandwidth setting and 3 older-style 4-pin ceramic filters which have 4 stages each for narrow mode. The L-07T is rare and can sell for $280-400 on eBay, with a recent high of $537 in 1/06 for one with the original box and user's manual. The matching amp is the L-07C. [EF]
I will post photos tonight,
Jeff
A little info on the tuner from FMTunerinfo website:
Kenwood L-07T (1978, $625, detector/MPX scheme: quadrature detector, charge injection cancellation discrete MPX switches, MPX PLL generated 38k with HA1156 chip)
The L-07T looks identical to the L-07TII described below, except that it's gun-metal gray in color rather than black, and its rack-mount holes are open on the outsides. Those two differences make the L-07T more "industrial-looking" than the L-07TII. We believe that the circuitry of the two tuners is mostly identical, but the L-07T uses a quadrature detector rather than the L-07TII's pulse count detector and also lacks the two extra ceramic filters that apparently run the L-07TII's meters. Here's a photo of the inside of the L-07T. Like the L-07TII, the L-07T has a 7-gang tuning capacitor and is also very sensitive and quite selective even in stock form (spec'd at 100 dB alternate channel selectivity in Narrow). Any filter modification should probably be done by a pro because the L-07T contains two Murata "Surface Acoustic Filters," specially designed by Kenwood, for the wide IF bandwidth setting and 3 older-style 4-pin ceramic filters which have 4 stages each for narrow mode. The L-07T is rare and can sell for $280-400 on eBay, with a recent high of $537 in 1/06 for one with the original box and user's manual. The matching amp is the L-07C. [EF]
I will post photos tonight,
Jeff
