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In Reply to: Kenwood KT-7300 posted by RhythmDevil on April 13, 2024 at 06:05:58:
Kenwood always made top notch tuners. This is from FM tunerinfo.com
Kenwood KT-7300 (1977, $260, photo, schematic) search eBay
The KT-7300 is a solidly built tuner that weighs a ton, and the consensus is that it has excellent sound. With 4 gangs and 3 280 kHz (wide) filters in stock form, the KT-7300 has the potential to be a decent tuner for DXing (but not as good as a modified KT-7500) when tuned up and modified with narrow filters. The KT-7300 is virtually identical, cosmetically, to the KT-7500, even though it's not even close to the same tuner electronically. It has a variable output level knob on the front panel, plus an FM MPX filter and separate muting and auto/mono switches. On the back panel are jacks for an oscilloscope, a 75 µS/25 µS de-emphasis switch and an FM detector output jack. The KT-7300 has one IF gain stage and there is easy access to the circuit board for mods.
Our contributor Bill Ammons reports that the KT-7300 is a great tuner for weak-signal areas but not as good a performer where there are a number of strong signals. See Bob's Filter Corner for a description of Bill's PCB filter mod, see the DIY Mods page for information on DIY audio section and power supply mods for the KT-7300, and read about the performance of a modded KT-7300 on the Modified Tuner Report page. See how one KT-7300 sounded compared to many top tuners on our Shootouts page. The KT-7300 can usually be bought for $30-70 on eBay (with occasional lows of under $20), but over $100 is possible.
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- RE: Kenwood KT-7300 - BCR 07:55:41 04/13/24 (1)
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