Kenwood LS-11M
Documentation on the Kenwood LS-11M is thin. What exists comes mostly from secondary-market listings and enthusiast posts, not period reviews or manufacturer literature. The record does establish this much: it was a passive, bookshelf-sized, 3-way loudspeaker from Kenwood, built in Japan, with a bass reflex enclosure and a front-mounted port. It appears to have been part of Kenwood's domestic-market speaker lineup, though its exact position relative to other models is not documented.
The one spec that turns up consistently is the 3-way configuration, corroborated by three independent sources. A Japanese source describes it as a 19cm 3-way speaker system with magnetic shielding (防磁), which suggests it was designed to sit near a CRT television. Impedance is commonly listed at 6 ohms with 130W power handling, but those figures come from a single YouTube video description, so take them with that in mind. The woofer is approximately 19cm. The rest of the driver complement is undocumented.
Dating is messy, and the sources conflict depending on the variant. One Russian listing gives the related LS-11 a release date of July 1988 at ¥50,000 per pair. A Facebook post claims the LS-11 ES was "made in Japan 1981." Neither date is explicitly tied to the LS-11M, so treat production years as unconfirmed. The speakers have since found a second life on the secondary market. Spanish-language listings describe them as "monitores de alta fidelidad" (high-fidelity monitors), and at least one Vietnamese enthusiast commented that they sound "extremely good." They've also been used as test speakers for a Kenwood L07M MK2 amplifier, which at least suggests they hold up well enough to serve as a reference.
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