Cassette deck Kenwood KX-W4080

This lovely unit biggest of all companies in our test - solid body, full-length and even full-fledged impression. Perhaps this impression is exacerbated by "slanting eyes" - narrow windows in the cassette compartment door, which although look good, functional perform its purpose is not the best way: in the absence of illumination cassette through them virtually invisible. Of course, like all other vehicles, body size - it's clean design refinement, a tribute to the external solidity, and if other housing half empty, then 4080 on, he three-quarters empty. To complete the external impressions, we note that we seemed uncomfortable significant spacing groups buttons broach - we mean buttons rollbacks, and moved away down to the edges of the panel. At autopsy in a vacuum enclosure we saw a couple of simple reversible single-engine light lentoprotyazhek plastic handwheel. Easy broaches, at first glance, we were even more discouraged, but further measurements showed that not everything is so bad that the parameters have broaches somewhat better reported and quite sufficient for this class of equipment (the results of measurements in the summary table). All electronic filling focused on one spacious monoplate plus a small push-button on the front of the station, the whole installation is accurate interconnect ribbon cables. The board of 4 trimming resistor to set the normal and double speed broaches path record/playback any adjustment elements not, as the whole set-up and tract record is composed of digital regulators management controller. In manual tuning bias current and recording level adjustable values are displayed in digital form that is comfortable and pleasing to the eye . Now is the time to break away from the contemplation of the viscera and consider the main element exterior decoration - display. It is tastefully decorated, but, in our opinion, too small indicator elements and indicators of functions, but, given that the device has a wired controller on the bus and, therefore, most of the work is carried out directly from the front panel, near all display elements are well read and nitpick we will not.

Now a little about the equipment, and other functional capabilities of our test. First of all is the typical Dolby-set (B, C and HX Pro), moreover, the search for fragments pauses, three options repeat records, optimization bias current, MPX filter to improve FM- radio recording programs (from a single test). There is also a signature dish CCRS for automated rewriting CDs, however, it acts just like any other type of bus operation, only apparatus of Kenwood, there is also a telephone amplifier that does not have a volume control. Characteristics of noteworthy decent (ie low) noise level, but the AFC has already blockage with frequency 12 kHz at high speed on a normal somehow falls short of 14.