hang on to it, there is one on eBay for $9K.

Hello Ragnar To complete my comment in view of your last addition: I bought my Trio Kenwood new also. I may have not looked correctly to the excallent video

But I also noted that the L07D came with rubber pads under the feet. Great vdeo. Claude in Montréal Qc

Makes sense since it so much heavier than aluminum. Thanks Ragnar.

How much was it when you bought it? And how did you happen upon it in 1981? Was it in a local audio shop or did you have to order it?

You sure are lucky to have a full system. Would you mind sharing a picture or two??

Do you want to sell them? I was a Kenwood rep when they came out. I provided the demo units to Harry Pearson at Absolute Sound that he later purchased a set as his standard reference amps for years. Between myself and two of my sons we have a number of LO-7Ms, LO-9M. LO-7Cs.... and integrated amps, tuners,....

@@glenncurry3041 Hello Glen I’m open to offers.

The L-07 series was and still is one of the best lines to ever hit the market. I own and have serviced many of the L series pieces. Truly top performers, and very elegantly designed. I would love to hear more about your time at Kenwood, especially on the topic of the L series.

I have been think about buying a L series monoblocks. Can you give us a little more insight into them?

@@Gnofg The L-07M’s are extremely tight, controlled and transparent amplifiers. In my experience, they sound like the best of both worlds of solid state amplifiers and tube amplifiers between their bass control, fantastic and emotional midrange, and clean top end. Their technical performance is also extremely good, being DC amplifiers with a bandwidth past 200KHz (600KHz for the L-07M Mk2) The issues with the L-07M’s lie within the high bandwidth capabilities. These amplifiers love to oscillate when parts drift out of spec, which could be a death sentence if not caught in time. This is a bigger issue with the L-07MII, most of which are already dead if not already restored properly. I have restored multiple sets of L-07M’s, and they suffer from many of the same issues as similar vintage amplifiers such as cracked solder joints, corrosive circuit board glue, failing capacitors, and out of tolerance resistors. These issues can all be addressed by a competent technician. One other thing to look out for is the RCA jacks on the backs of the units. Kenwood, for some reason, decided to utilize a crimp connection for the ground pickup on the RCA Jack. This fails overtime, and if it does, the amplifier will shoot DC out to your speakers which can fry speaker drivers. It’s best to replace the RCA jacks entirely for this reason. If you manage to find a pair of L-07M’s and restore them properly, they will blow many amplifiers multiple times their price out of the water. There’s a reason I’ve kept mine for so long while rolling through other very expensive amplifiers. They hold their own plus some. Kenwood/Accuphase really knocked it out of the park with these series of components!

@@PrimeHiFi I have had a Dynaco ST 70 and right now I am using a completely updated Dynaco ST 150. I also had a Belles and when I I tested the Dynaco it blew away the Belles in terms of clarity. I have a Van Alstine preamp. The point is this L series intrigues me. I have a great tech who has done multiple things. He restored a couple of Pat-5's with new opamps and my old Sansui AU-7500 who I sold to a friend( I bought it new). I was thinking more of the L-05's.

@@PrimeHiFi I has a complete set of the L-O7 series as samples when they first came out. I hated loaning them out as they made my Maggie IIIa's sing! But the fall back KA-801 was no slob! And the KD-500 either. But Fat Julien's HiFi in Atlanta wanted to try them. When I got them back he told me he had just listened to the most technically perfect amp ever built! But he was not sure how he felt about that! LOL! And it turns out mine was the pair Harry Pearson evaluated with him. Did you know the output devices had that extreme bandwidth because they were developed by Kenwood's RF/ Amateur Radio group? (Kenwood Trio, stereo, RF and Test. Mikasa dishware also!) So they literally could extend out to 150MHz! With high power! And they were NOT an Integrated Circuit! They were massive parallel transistors to reduce internal eddy current to get the power and bandwidth from one device! They also introduced an L-O1 series that was price no object! Integrated amp had 7 power supplies in a different box before that was heard of! All made from nonferrous materials to stop cabinet interactions with signal paths. The turntable had a massive sold lead bar running between the platter bearing and tonearm mount. Fun story when I was doing booth duty for Audio Purist at their 1st CES attendance. Room was me and some Japanese engineers with poor English day one of the show. Things were not sounding good in the smaller room downstairs a McCormic. I noticed their florescent display lights were flicker. Not high enough voltage to light them up! Too much line loss at that room! I grabbed one of the display signs and carried it out to the hall to plug in out there to test. If you know Chicago Unions! They had ignored our request to check line voltage! But once a non-union person was walking up to an outlet to plug something in while not paying a Union electrician to do it? WOW! did I get attention! But they saw the light issue (amazed them it was happening!) and they dropped a transformer behind our room! I was a hero to Audio Purist! By my recommendations, one some owns a pair of L-O7Ms and L-O5Ms for his AR9s (I also repped). Another a pair of L-O7Ms for his AR91s. And I have a pair of L-O9Ms on the bench working on protection relay issues for my Maggie 1.7i. I repped Marantz, AR, Kenwood, Cerwin Vega, Audio Technica, Maxell, Empire, Nagatron, Nagaoka, Pioneer Car Audio, ... in 6 SE states, Gave lectures and clinics. Ran a regional Kenwood repair Center in Atlanta for a while.

good old days. Sure miss these crazy statement pieces.

but accuphase is live and kicking

No doubt!

Thats the favorite part of my job.. finding vintage gems that can compete with modern stuff.

Indeed!

Yes i want it but would like to retire some day so can’t afford it.

glad to hear. enjoy

Than Will. Got a cool Sony piece coming next week.

I thought about the Kt-917 but I also liked AM at the time. I do have the KA-907 love that amp.

They certainly had deep pockets and huge facilities with lots of experts. I doubt any audio company will ever exist again like these did back then.

Glad you enjoyed it Dan and thanks for your thoughts.

haha.

Im pretty sure the arm was made by them, Thanks for sharing.

Thats the beater record I use to set tonearm height and stuff. Never actually use it. Sure is a mess.

I noticed that too. Perhaps the orientation of the mic. Will be more careful not the next one. Sorry B.

or a halo product.

forgetaboutit! Like finding a unicorn. Good luck Elias.

battleship aesthetic in my opinion :-)

@@SkyFiAudio 100%

I once gutted a KD-650/600 and did not find anything in common with this piece. Nice table never the less.

@@SkyFiAudio Thanks for the info.

good one Jeff.

He’s on the wrong YT channel he’s got a daewoo with too bad wiper arms

I had an 8000, it was very unreliable, and B&O of North America didn't seem terribly interested in getting it to work properly. When it had the next problem after the warranty expired, I replaced the 8000 with a Linn Sondek. Even with the Basik arm and cartridge, the Linn was clearly superior, even on my mid-fi system back then

@@louisperlman8030 Sonically, I agree the 8000 was not the best. I have a restored SL1200 today with a Nagaoka cart that I think sounds better. I even had a Clearaudio Concept before that. At one point I even had a tangential tracking Pioneer deck......but none of these had the style, features, or coolness factor of the 8000. It's still my favorite to this day.

I also have a Beogram 4002 estetically perfect but needs small repairs to be in working condition. When I dont use the L07D, I use my Thorens TD 125/Sme III/Goldring 1042

@@claudechasle4154 Weren't the turntables from the 4000 series belt-driven?

brass feet would ruin the battleship aesthetic :-)

My thoughts exactly!!

For demonstration purposes, who cares? When you want to really use it, you put on the $6,500 special.

Thats just the cartridge that was on a random head shell in the shop. Dont actually use this table, its just for display. Some day Ill mount something special on it.

Nice one. I love early Sony players. The earlier the better. Watch out for next weeks video.

@@SkyFiAudio 7ES is not early model......

When the video first posts, its low res. gotta wait a bit for the 4k version

They sure have the torque for it.

It was in the UK they had to use the Trio name.

no sorry, check ebay.

good catch. Will remember on the next one for sure.

Quartz lock was the de facto standard for Japanese DD turntables. However, the Japanese mostly stopped producing those and modern turntable (with the exception of Technics and a few others) are all low tech belt drive affairs using commodity parts. Many are very well made with precision CNC manufacturing, but that's the sort of thing that doesn't require much of an engineering budget or the resources to create bespoke parts like motors, control circuits and switches. He gets at this in the video.

you be surprised how good an AC motor synced to the electric grid frequency can perform. Much cheaper too.

obviously Kenwood had a budget. but the way it was spenz, like on mx Sanui XR-Q7 TT,is interesting-budget went on super-accurate electronix speed contro, not on strobe,lamp,adjusters. the footprint is pretty big, hard for a disabled person to shift. every year, the top makers compete to get the best engineering graduates in Japan. I think Trio-Kenwood got a lot of the cream. until the great withdrawal from hifi, by Japan Inc. in the mid-90's, the investment in research and matketing effort, primarily aimed at the USA, with higher-end hifi there, was astounding. - the AV market was their next industry-wide move. only in the last few years, Yamaha and Technics(Panasonic) re-entered the high-end hifi dpace, pccuüpied mainly by specialist brands from smaller companies. this time more for profit, than making 'halo' products, maybe. as the mass-market digital (inc. streaming) gear market is saturated, by the massive output from China and the tiger countries in SE Asia. now JVC Kenwood, it remains to be seen if delicious,desirable products like this ever appear again under the Kenwood name. ?

I doubt you could ever find one of these under $10k.

Here is your chance to get one from a good seller. Definitely pickup the second arm too.

haha, I'm sure you can find someone to gold leaf it for you.

As good as the cartridge you put on it :-)

@@SkyFiAudio exactly haha

Haha Keith. Sounds like your a practical kinda guy. This is for the crazy audiophiles.

All top of the line units are technically overkill.

This table is a show piece in our shop. Dont really have a cartridge mounted or calibrate for it. I just put on a head shel I had sitting around. Some day Ill put it to good use. What cartridge do you reckon would work well?

thats no fun!

You'd sure have some takers if you did.