Kenwood L-07
Not much is documented about the Kenwood L-07 itself. The period record mostly covers specific members of Kenwood's Audio Purist Group - chiefly the L-07TII FM tuner and the L07MII amplifier.
High Fidelity (March 1979, p.27) reported on the L-07TII. It used a proprietary pulse-count detector for FM modulation. Kenwood claimed the design cut distortion by roughly half and improved signal-to-noise ratio by 6 to 12 dB. The digital detection was said to preserve finer nuances of audio variation.
The L07MII is known mainly through Kenwood's own advertising. An ad in Audio (December 1980, p.63) called it the ultimate amplifier and cited a frequency response from 0 Hz to 600 kHz within ±3 dB. The company credited a special team of engineers who had essentially reinvented the amplifier in pursuit of audibly distortion-free reproduction.
Beyond those two series members, no verified specifications, dates, or prices for a base L-07 model survive in the record.
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