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steveluigi 30th Sep 2013 2:37 am

Acquired Kenwood M-97M - Info needed
 
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Hi everyone.
I have been very lucky to have acquired a fabulous 'Kenwood' Midi M-97M' Midi separates system for silly money, well £20 actually.
It's all perfect and included speakers, Remote control and Instruction manual.

My question is, does anyone know when this model was manufactured?
I have done a search but can not find any information.

Thank you in anticipation
Steve

ben 30th Sep 2013 12:34 pm

Re: Acquired Kenwood M-97M - Info needed
 
A friend of mine had one very similar to this new. Year was 1992.
I recall being very underwhelmed by the plastic record deck!

tri-comp 30th Sep 2013 8:01 pm

Re: Acquired Kenwood M-97M - Info needed
 
That would be very close to spot-on.
The system has an A-97 Stereo-amplifer, for which I have the service-manual, and it is dated 1993.
It also sports a T-76L Tuner, a DP-97 CD-player, a P-78 Turntable, a GE-970 Equalizer, a X-97 Cassette player and came with a pair of LS-97 Speakers.

rgds,

/tri-comp

steveluigi 1st Oct 2013 2:59 am

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Excellent, thank you for the info.
I have also written to Kenwood to get their opinion, I will confirm on here when they get back to me.

Michael Maurice 1st Oct 2013 7:39 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by steveluigi (Post 633338)
I have also written to Kenwood to get their opinion, I will confirm on here when they get back to me.

Opinion on what? You'll be very lucky if anyone in Pioneer knows anything about this model

Nickthedentist 1st Oct 2013 7:58 pm

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Yep, you'd be lucky to get anything but a standard "sorry this model is no longer supported" e-mail, if they bother to reply at all, but you never know.

Michael, I take it Kenwood are now owned by Pioneer, then?

Nick.

steveluigi 10th Oct 2013 4:51 pm

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Got a reply from 'Kenwood', ye of little faith LOL.
You were right about the date of manufacture.

Hi,

Sorry for the delay; I've been out of the office recently...
This system was manufactured between 1993 – 1994

Kind Regards,

Andy Griffiths

Navigation Customer Support Engineer

Kenwood Electronics (Uk) Ltd

Nickthedentist 10th Oct 2013 6:51 pm

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That's nice to hear. Enjoy it!


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