Kenwood DPC-55 (1995–1996)
The Kenwood DPC-55 is a portable CD player from the mid-1990s. It was introduced in 1995 and produced through 1996. Documentation is thin. No original retail price, no audio specifications and no owner reception have survived in the record. What is known comes mostly from equipment directory entries.
It was a fairly compact unit for its era: 136 × 139 × 35 mm (W×H×D) and 220 g. It ran on two 1.5 V batteries with a rated power consumption of 6 W. A pair of AA cells was typical of budget-to-midrange portables of the period. Past those figures, the record goes quiet. No DAC details, no anti-skip mechanism information, no headphone output specs and no accessory list have been documented.
A listing in HiFI-Stereo (September 1990, p.124) appears in the archive's corpus under the DPC-55's name. The page is actually a call-for-products listing for other gear, and the DPC-55 is marked "NOT LISTED" there. It gives no usable review or specification for this model.
No service manual availability, no known failure modes and no current market pricing have been recorded for the DPC-55. The basic facts above are likely all you'll find in print.
- Type: Portable CD player
- Introduced: 1995; produced 1995–1996
- Power: 2 × 1.5 V batteries; 6 W consumption
- Dimensions: 136 × 139 × 35 mm
- Weight: 220 g
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