Sherwood S-2770RCP (1987)
The Sherwood S-2770RCP was a late-1980s digital remote-control AM/FM stereo receiver. It was one of Sherwood's more ambitious attempts to pull TV and VCR audio into the stereo system. The period record is a full Hirsch-Hauck Laboratories test report and a run of Sherwood's own advertisements. Little else survives.
HiFI-Stereo (August 1987, p.48) ran the lab test and came away impressed. Measured at the rated 70 watts per channel into 8-ohm loads, distortion stayed between 0.004 and 0.01 percent from 20 to 4,000 Hz, rising to 0.045 percent at 20 kHz. At half and tenth power it was lower still. The reviewer called it a feature-laden receiver with more than enough clean audio power for most people, and singled out the FM tuner's exceptionally low noise.
The S-2770RCP was built around remote operation and video hookup. An illuminated display showed receiver status at a glance. The large volume knob carried a red LED so you could see its position from across the room during motorized remote adjustment, a detail the HiFI-Stereo reviewer noted as important. The digital-synthesis tuner stored sixteen presets behind eight pushbuttons, each serving two memory locations. The preamp section added a switchable subsonic filter rated at 12 dB per octave below 30 Hz. Dimensions were 17¼ inches wide and 13 inches deep. List price was $449.95.
Sherwood's own advertising in Audio (September 1987, p.71) pushed a different number, 74 watts per channel. It framed the receiver as the center of an early home-theater setup. It could synthesize stereo from mono sources such as broadcast and cable TV, and it could decode rear-channel information present in stereo video programs. With an extra pair of speakers at the back of the room, it turned the listening space into something like a theater. Those ads ran through at least November 1987.
Beyond the 1987 review and ad campaign, documentation is thin. No production years are recorded beyond the 1987 model-year presence, and no service-manual details, owner-repair stories, or market-collector data have surfaced.
- Type: AM/FM stereo remote-control receiver
- Rated power: 70 W/ch (HiFI-Stereo lab reference; ads claimed 74 W/ch)
- Tuner: digital-synthesis, 16 presets (8 buttons × 2 memories)
- Subsonic filter: 12 dB/octave below 30 Hz
- Dimensions: 17¼″ W × 13″ D
- Price (1987): $449.95
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