Kenwood Get Internally Ripped

27th August 2010 Adam Rayner

Kenwood’s latest top of the range head unit is now available, the KDC-W9537U. Along with Full DSP control and motorised display, it also has Internal Ripping Memory (512Mb) to store your favorite music tracks.
Button count is kept to a minimum by the use of Kenwood’s new Jog Shuttle control. All menus and radio presets can be navigated very quickly and simply via this one control knob. The fine dot OEL display can produce over 4000 colours and can be customised to show your own pictures as wallpaper. iPod direct USB control (2.0) is enhanced by a 12Mbps transfer rate and 3-line display of music text information A Bluetooth option is available with the BT100 interface. Main features: 4 x 50 Watt MOSFET on board power amplifier; CD-R/RW MP3/WMA/AAC playback; 3 RCA Pre-outs @ 5.0V; CD-text 0-bit mute; 24 bit DAC (Wolfson); 8 Times over sampling. Signal-to-noise ratio: 110 dB. Dynamic range: 93 dB. Channel separation: 96 dB. Wired remote option; Digital System Es; PC software included. The numbers mean this is a high specification unit. Expect to pay around £450