Kenwood NV-500

Kenwood NV-500 Hifi System

Product Type: Kenwood hifi systems

Newest Review: ... poised', with particular praise reserved for the lower registers, and another remarked on the Kenwood's 'good ... more

 ... depth' and the way that the music was able to 'flow realistically'. 'It's a good, well balanced sound', he concluded. In the hands-on testing, it lacked the easy clarity of the Arcam, and the sonority and smoothness of the Marantz, but it gave an airy, spacious account of a wide range of music types. It seemed less sure-footed with very dense choral and orchestral recordings, which sometimes tended to lose focus and sound mushy. But, for the most part, the Kenwood sounded clean, lively and entert...more

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Kenwood NV-500: Excellent for the price !!! (551 words)
by - written on 28/11/00, updated on  30/11/00
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The NV-500 is a large, though slimline, CD player, one of the principal claims to fame of which is its Resolution Intensive Vector Enhancement circuit, designed to drastically reduce distortion at low signal levels. The player also features a 'high performance' 1-bit D/A converter, with a claimed 24-bit resolution, though as such a beast barely exists at everyday price levels, the resolution claim at least must be taken with a pinch of salt. The ability to deal with 24-bit numbers from the digital filter without truncation at the input is the usual meaning of this claim. Potentially useful operating features include CD Peak Search, and a tape edit ...  Read the complete review

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