Johnss, I plan on a complete recap of the unit. |
Hi Johnss, the unit is fully functional currently, I suppose I got lucky, I'm wanting to high end this unit, the tuner is incredible, do you know anyone that can work on these? |
Hi Mechanics, The kr-9600 was made in 76, it is duel monaural, direct coupled, yes, I am doing an expensive parts list, with the High end caps alone, I doubt this unit will even sound like vintage kenwood. |
Is there any audiokarma people here?, or, where is a qualified kenwood KR-9600 technician in U.S.? |
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My capacitor's are not leaking or crowned, I just want Elna, and nichicon cap's through out, with the crazy pick up endless stations tuner inside this unit, I wanted to make this as high end in sound as possible, I do know the capacitor's are orginal, that said, 40 year's is amazing they work, but Dave, we both know I would get better sound with new capacitor's based on the age of the original capacitor's. |
Hi dlcockrum, you are exactly right about the power switch, the switch on my kr-9600 is stuck on, however, if you look on the net, the switch’s are incredible, the guy showed pictures of him taking the switch out, taking it apart and completely cleaning the black carbon build up out, putting the switch back together, re-installing the switch, works like new, also, after that, on another website, a gentleman installed a relay on the switch, with a fuse , the switch will never need repaired again, this off sets the current in rush to never happen, my darlington power pack’s are in pristine condition, however, even on another website, another gentleman that is an electronic engineer, shows how to rebuild the power pack's ’s, I need a qualified person to do all the modification’s and recap, I have just come across someone that might?, be of help, legendary amps.com a guy name skip, , do you know anything about this company? |
dlcockrum, curious, what speaker's are you running with your kr-9600? |
Mechans, I didn’t know that the engineer’s from Kenwood started Accuphase, very interesting, From my research, Audio karma is the site for this kenwood kr-9600, seems technician’s frequent this site, along with diy enthusiast, have you gentleman ever seen the inside of this reciever?, It has many board’s, 91 capacitor’s, no!, not me, lol, I’m not going to attempt doing any thing my self. |
Hi dlcockrum, you once said to me, if it's not broken, don't fix it, this kenwood kr 9600 I have sound's impressive with good speaker's, shockingly, I do not believe it needs recapped? This thing has bass like a krell amplifier!, audiophile clarity that I do not get from most reciever's, I also have a denon avr-5700 that was $2,800.00 new, I believe I prefer the kr-9600, no wonder you said that this unit was good, cheers |
Hi tasar, I did alot of research a year ago, it was a electrical/electronic’s engineer that completely rebuilt the module’s because it was said it could not be done, the gentleman did not even work for or own a electronic’s company, the both of us can research the internet to find him, he explained how to do the job, currently, I do not remember, but I was amazed when I found it at the time, fortunately, my module’s are in good shape 🎼🎶🎵. |
Tasar, Check out the YouTube video of the kr-9600 playing pink panther with a Marantz sacd player, makes you scratch your head thinking most extreme high-end integrated amplifiers are not as good sounding as this Kenwood!, I will never sale my unit 🤓☺ |
Would be nice if someone would post a link here to that video, I'm not that savy, lol. |
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Hmmmm, I erased my attempt above, but, wala!,, I finally accomplished it😂 |
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