Advantages: GREAT NAME..TRUSTED COMPANY..GOOD QUALITY
Disadvantages: MOUNTING DEPTH..INPUT ONLY TAKES 45 WATTS,

...After putting up with the blown speakers in the rear of my car for some time..i decided to purchase some new ones! I went for kenwood to match the head unit,as i like to use one brand if i can...i have found in the past,that it can be easyer to connect all the componants together,and therefore making fitting a bit quicker! I guess that doesnt apply to adding speakers as such,but i still like to use the same brands where i can... Anyway,i found the KENWOOD KFC-1779IE just the right size that i was looking for..(sometime in the past,my car speaker system had been modded and i was looking for a direct replacement for the blown old speakers..) I found that the kenwood speakers were 17cm,just the size i needed! and 63.5 mm deep(just fits)so i purchased them. I found them very well presented in their factory packing...they came... Read review

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Advantages: ok for people on a budget, Nice colour, easy to install
Disadvantages: Not very good sound quality, not for me

...was ready to be installed. To mount the kenwood speakers, all i had to do was position the holes on the speaker to the holes in the door itself, align the screw and screw all four screws in til they were tight, all that was then left to do was plug the connection onto the terminals on the back (just used the old ones that were already there) and put the door panel back on. A good tip here is to get some dynamat on the door panel itself, and between the actual speaker and the metalwork of the car your mounting it on. This will prevent the sound from escaping outwards from the car, and redirect the sound into the car which is exactly where you want it to go (no good upgrading and letting the sound out). Now dont get me wrong here, in the speaker world you do actually get what you pay for, and ill explain abit further on. The speakers... Read review

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Advantages: Low distortion, highly responsive, high quality
Disadvantages: Expensive price range, loose all the top end with pants amp

...These 6 x 9 speakers are the best Kenwood can offer in their size and quality. HQ695 - stands for high quality 6 x 9 The frequency response is the smoothest i have seen (heard) Very simple to install, in minutes, on either a stelth shelf or in cabinets. Since my car was written off, I am using them as hifi spekers in my bedroom, and I can't be in the room when they are on half volume! They are never going to distort as they have a peak output of 260 watts each, thats 130 watts rms, you can't get a home amp big enough! They have an amazing reproduction quality over the broadest frequecy range i have seen, higher than cats and dogs can hear! Overall they are what you expect, amazing in car speakers (with a high quality amp) but also look stunning in ur bedroom put in wooden cabinets (full range speakers 3 way!!) Look to pay £150... Read review

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Advantages: Sound, Display
Disadvantages: Non.

...forget the numbers all u have to do is find the name. If you like to pay tapes in your car then this is ont for you because it does not come with tape player. there are 4 Speaker Sockets but if you have an AMP you can add more speakers For security the face of the player comes off leather case in box pluss pass codes if wanted. I got a professional to fit mine so ill put the installation at (Average) The display on this baby is excellent too it's a color screen and it has all the top end features like visualizations like windows media player 10 they are brill i like the blue spikes the best. Overview: CD-Player CD Player Cassette Deck without Cassette Deck RDS with RDS MP3 Playback without MP3 Playback Changer/Player without CD Changer MD-Player without MiniDisc Player Manufacturer Kenwood Product Description Kenwood Z 638... Read review

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Advantages: good power output, low price
Disadvantages: poor instruction manual on how to reset amp

...I bought this amplifier to power my 4 main speakers in conjunction with another Kenwood amplifier to power the subwoofer. The KAC-648 is a budget amp at around £140 and is easy to install like many other amplifiers. It is a 4 channel amplifier and the rated power output at 4 Ohms is 25 Watts using all 4 channels and at 2 Ohms 35 Watts using 4 channels. The amplifier features gold plated line input/output and speaker input/output. Using the High pass Filter (features low pass filter, full range options and input sensitivity individually for both input channels) on the amp you can achieve incredible sound quality in conjunction with another amp to power the subwoofer. This is because the amp drives well and allows the component speakers to just power the higher audible frequencies with less distortion at a higher decibel level. The only... Read review

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Advantages: Attractive looking, plenty of configuration options, can connect ipod with optional extra
Disadvantages: Sometimes too many menus just to change simple options

...Up untill it broke i had managed to live with a cheap daewoo headunit for my car. It was ok i thought, i connect a sub and amp to it and yea it sounded good. However as soon as i installed this kenwood headunit i could hear the differance!! The sound quality was amazing, produced better results through all my speaker ranges and had both well defined bass lines and good vocals even with the exact same speakers as i had previously used. The first thing that took my eye was the rubber edges to the controls, these feel really nce and increase the attractivness of the player. I also like the joypad like control on the right of the player which controls the cd track skip and play/pause functions. It is quite easy to kncok this to accidentaly change tracks though. One thing that annoyed me was that its advertised as ipod compatible which... Read review

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Advantages: Well built, good specification
Disadvantages: Doesnt Play MD-LP

...I have had the above unit for three years now, and decided to share my views with you about it. The Kenwood KMD 671R is an excellent unit at a competetive price in the car audio market. The list of functions that it performs are impressive for a unit in this price range I'll split this into a couple of categorys for you. PURCHASING The unit retails at arounf the £130 mark, but when i purchased it, the RRP was 179.99. My unit was purchased at Motorworld. The unit came with all the necessary connections, manuals and one year warranty INSTALLATION The unit was very easy to install, along with the instuctions provided which were written in plain english. This unit fits a standard DIN slot in a car USAGE The unit has three FM bands, One MW/LW band, minidisc function, and two cd changer function (with cd changers installed). The FM... Read review

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Advantages: Superb rural setting. Magnificent art collection. The stunning room shown above.
Disadvantages: Woefully small car park.

...at this time of day working our way around he old "North Circular" route, admiring the new Wembley Stadium construction site on the way. Situated in Hampstead and adjacent to Hampstead Heath, Kenwood turned out to be just 13 miles from our starting point. This is part of London that we do not know at all and I was really surprised at just how affluent it is here, we travelled up to Kenwood off the A1 past huge gated mansions. As directed by the brown English Heritage road signs we entered the car park twenty minutes before the house opened at 11.00a.m. There was not one single space to be found, for what turned out to be a large site, the car parking here is woefully inadequate. We were lucky, driving round and round the car park eventually a dog walker arrived and vacated a space. Tiny as it is, the car park is very shady so at least the car... Read review

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Advantages: Larger so better? High power output, high sensitivity
Disadvantages: Expensive, not as tight sounding as the 6 by 9s

...These 7 x 10 speakers are the best Kenwood can offer in their size and quality. HQ715 - stands for high quality 7 x 10 The frequency response is the smoothest i have seen (heard), however they are not as tight sounding as their little brother (See TimboEngineers Opinion on HQ695s!) Very simple to install, in minutes, on either a stelth shelf or in cabinets. After trying out the HQ695s I was so impressed I bought the model up.There is even less chance of these babies distorting, as they have a peak output of 280 watts each, thats 140 watts rms, you still can't get a home amp big enough to supply that kind of power! They have an amazing reproduction quality over the broadest frequecy range i have seen, higher than cats and dogs can hear! and lower than a whale's song. Overall they are what you expect, amazing in car speakers (with... Read review

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Advantages: impressive, excellent features
Disadvantages: quite expensive but well worth it!

...After I bought my car, i was very interested in getting a full in-car entertainment system for it! So i had a hunt around and came across this little beauty...the Kenwood KVT M707 DVD Player. Firstly I can't comment on the installation procedure of this product as this was done by someone else, but i was very impressed when i first turned it on! For starters, it has a lovely sliding mechanism operated by a single button, after which you are presented with your main screen. There are a few options, Standby, Tuner, DVD, Video etc - all very self explanatory. The whole system can be operated by either the remote shown above, or by touchscreen! Much more exicitng! The tuner gives you options for 6 preset stations, and you've got your volume buttons etc all on there. The DVD player part is to play CD's, MP3's - again the screen includes... Read review

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