Sherwood 8000W (c. 1964)
Not much information survives on the Sherwood 8000W. What remains is essentially Sherwood's own magazine advertising from 1964. Those ads identify it as an FM stereo tuner/amplifier, effectively a self-contained receiver, priced at $329.50. A genuine walnut cabinet was offered as a $29.50 option. The campaign's signature claim was about the tuning dial. Sherwood said it was precisely graduated every 200 kilocycles, the minimum spacing between FM station channels, so a listener could pre-tune to a broadcast frequency by eye before touching the knob. Those claims ran in Audio (August 1964, p.20) and High Fidelity (August 1964, p.118).
No independent review or laboratory test of the 8000W has surfaced yet, so detailed specifications and measured performance are undocumented. The model name echoes the earlier S-8000, which Sherwood advertised as a new FM stereo receiver at $319.50 in late 1963 (Audio, December 1963, p.20). What the "W" changed, beyond the price, is not recorded in the Archive's sources.
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