Kenwood DP-1000
The Kenwood DP-1000 is a standalone CD player. The surviving record on it is thinner than you'd expect for a model with this kind of build. It weighs 7.8 kg and is 43.9 cm wide, which suggests serious internal construction rather than a budget deck. Kenwood's own marketing language (preserved via Hifi Engine) emphasized a 3-beam laser pickup, a "newly developed highly rigid tracking mechanism," and a dual D/A converter with digital filter, all in service of "extracting the best possible performance from the digital signal." The machine also offered direct access to any section of a disc, a convenience feature that was still worth advertising in this era. A period review in HiFI-Stereo (February 1987, p.159) highlighted the player's high-balance servo and high-trackability servo for unerring tracking of any disc.
Specs that survive: frequency response is listed as 4 Hz–20 kHz, harmonic distortion at 0.005%, and dynamic range at 95 dB. Power consumption is listed as 40W, though one source gives an EIA figure of 4.0W. On outputs, the player offers both coaxial and optical digital outs. One oddity in the record: the DAC is variously documented as either 2 x 12-bit Burr Brown PCM54HP or 4 x 16-bit, depending on the source, so treat that spec as unresolved.
No production years, original price, or user reception notes have surfaced. If you own one and can fill in the gaps, the archive would welcome the correction.
- CD player, standalone
- Dimensions: 43.9 x 13.0 x 32.0 cm; 7.8 kg
- Digital outputs: 1x coaxial, 1x optical
- Frequency response: 4 Hz – 20 kHz
- THD: 0.005%; Dynamic range: 95 dB
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