Sherwood RV-1340
Little is documented about the Sherwood RV-1340. It was a receiver, not a CD player, even though it shows up in a list of CD models on hifi-wiki. It was positioned as Sherwood's top-of-the-line offering at the time. HiFI-Stereo (October 1989) called it "the finest Sherwood has ever built," and claimed tighter engineering tolerances and more high-performance features than anything else in its price bracket. A Stereo Review buyer's guide (May 1991) listed its original price at $244 and gave these specs: 100 watts per channel for the main channels, an additional 20 watts for a rear channel, a built-in five-band equalizer, and Dolby decoding.
Past that, the record thins out. The only known owner report is a TV-repair query about a "Sherwood RV-1340-R that appears to have a channel" problem. It says nothing about whether the problem was easily fixed. There are no production years beyond the early-1990s window, no dimensions, no frequency-response figures and no detailed feature list. It was a modestly priced receiver with EQ and surround capability for its era. It seems to have been sold through discount stereo outlets like Wisconsin Discount Stereo, alongside other Sherwood models.
- Type: Receiver
- Price (1991): $244
- Power output: 100 W + 20 W per channel (main + rear)
- Equalizer: 5-band
- Decoding: Dolby
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