Harman Kardon HK-2000 (c. 1979)
Documentation on the Harman Kardon HK-2000 is thin. What the record shows: this was a stereo receiver/amplifier dating to 1979, rated at 100 watts RMS per channel — the one specification confirmed across multiple sources. It weighed in at 42 lbs, ran on 120V, and offered a single pair of RCA line outputs.
Beyond that, the surviving record is almost entirely limited to marketplace listings. Asking prices ranged from $45 for an "AS IS / Parts only" unit (with a note that one channel may be intermittent) to roughly $150–165 for units described as tested and working, with minor cosmetic issues. Notably, High Fidelity (August 1976, p.41) ran a test report on what appears to be an earlier HK-2000 cassette deck — a different product entirely from this receiver — so period coverage of this specific model has not surfaced.
No original retail price, frequency response, THD, or design details are documented. The HK-2000 receiver appears to have been a solid, high-powered late-1970s Harman Kardon component, but the historical record for it is remarkably sparse.
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