After seeing the nice pick-ups made by Daks and Pops this week I felt my title as Master of the Thrift Store score was being threatened so I thought I'd go out today and defend the title......

I was looking through CL ads yesterday and saw some Kenwood gear mentioned so I stopped there first thing and picked up the following for the princely sum of $25......

Kenwood KA 1100SD Integrated Amp
Kenwood GE 1100 Graphic Equalizer (In honor of Daks...)
Kenwood Basic T-2 Tuner
Yamaha CD-3 CD player
Yamaha DT-2 Digital timer
Nakamichi RX-202 Cassette Deck

Cosmetically there are all in great shape despite how my cheap camera might make them appear. All came in their original boxes and had the owner's manuals as well as connector cables. The T-2 and the Nak deck were throw ins because the owner says they did not work. It appears he was rght with the T-2 because even though it powers up you can not change the stations and there is no sound. Does not seem to impressive in any case but it is the first one of those I have ever seen. the Nak deck has an issue with the automatic loading mechanism. I quick look at the mechanism shows the belt has come loose so i need to find out how it fits in there and then my guess is that I will have a fully functioning deck.

The amp is a beast but is in perfect working condition. running it with some test speakers just to make sure there are no issues. It retailed for around $700 in 1985 and I think predates the Kenwood Basic series but seems to share some of the same pedigree. It has something called Super DLD which echoes the DLD drive in the Basic M1 amps. The GE 1100 looks pretty good and provides quite the light show.