JVC KD-35 (circa 1977–1978)

The JVC KD-35 was a stereo cassette deck from the late 1970s. Public documentation is thin. No original price, dimensions, or production figures have surfaced, but period test reports confirm it existed and give a few real measurements.

The surviving record starts with the front-panel description: Dolby NR, a tape selector, separate EQ and bias switches, and a peak-level meter. JVC fitted the transport with a Sen-Alloy play/record head and a ferrite erase head. A test report in HiFI-Stereo (1978, p.108) measured crosstalk at -65 dB, channel separation at 35 dB, and distortion at 1 kHz of 1.5% on chrome tape and 1.2% on normal tape. Wow and flutter was 0.5% wrms. The same report appears to reference JVC's ANRS noise reduction, which fits the company's late-1970s deck lineup. That part of the OCR is too garbled to pull out a frequency-response figure.

Period listings from 1977 and 1978 place the KD-35 among JVC's contemporary tape machines. Nothing further is documented - no service literature, no collector pricing, no common-failure history.

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