Kenwood LS-S10 (ca. 2006)
The LS-S10 is a compact 2-way bookshelf system that Kenwood pitched at people who wanted an easy way to listen to music from a DAP or PC. It went on sale at the end of March 2006 at a "discretionary" price, with one source citing around ¥15,000 for a pair. There are no production years, no family positioning and no reception record. Clean examples still surface on Japanese secondhand markets like PayPay Flea Market.
The spec sheet shows a small speaker with some thoughtful engineering. The low end is an 8 cm cone woofer with a multi-layer coating diaphragm meant to suppress unnecessary vibration, plus a polyurethane cap chosen for high internal loss. Kenwood also used a square voice coil to improve tracking against input signal. The high end is a 1.9 cm soft dome tweeter with sound-absorbing material inside the unit to keep high-frequency response smooth, without specific peaks. The enclosure is MDF, and the terminals are gold-plated and accept banana plugs.
The numbers: 85 Hz to 100 kHz playback, 30W max input, 8Ω impedance, 79dB output sound pressure level, and a 2.7 kHz crossover. The cabinet measures just 102 × 180 × 154 mm and weighs 1.7 kg. A 2-meter speaker cord was included per speaker. HiFi-Wiki lists the original price at 160 Euro, and the estimated median used price for 2026 sits around €29 based on seven tracked listings.
This isn't a speaker with a legendary reputation or a devoted restoration community. It's a compact, thoughtfully-built Kenwood from the mid-2000s, designed for desktop listening before that category had a name. If you find a pair, you're getting a well-made curiosity — and the fact that the record is thin shouldn't be mistaken for the product being uninteresting.
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