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I have been given a Kenwood Hi-Fi system. Yes it is old and yes it does
work, well partly anyway. Amp with CD player

These are the parts included:
All Kenwood
T-85L Tuner
DP-950 CD player
GE-850 Graphic equaliser
A-85 Amplifier

I have been informed by a chap on eBay that I need a special cable
to link
the Tuner and the Graphic Equaliser to the amplifier. Apparently the amp
sends control cables to the other parts in order to switch them on etc.

I have, tucked away upstairs, a similar system I bought in Indonesia
25 years ago.; The amp is an A-45 , but, I presume more or less the
same. It has both power and control cables linking the tuner, amp
and GE modules

I'll take a look tomorrow


-- geoff

Many thanks Geoff. Look forward to hearing from you soon

Jim G


I seem to recall that the control cable is basically a set of
loop-through 3.5 mm jack to 3.5 mm jack. I used to repair a lot of
these systems for a company some years back, and I have it amongst the
cobwebs of my mind, that these systems are very critical of the 'order'
in which the individual items are bussed. I'm thinking particularly of
the graphic and tape deck, which I seem to recall are particularly
'strange' in the way that they interconnect. If you don't get
everything right, the remote control doesn't work. I remember keeping a
copy of the user manual filed away, with a hand-drawn diagram of my
own, so odd was it. If you have any issues with getting it all to work,
shout me direct, or on here, and I'll see if I can fish out the
diagrams, as I'm sure I must still have them.

Arfa

Mine has a sub min "D" type 4 way connector for the power bus (as
someone showed in a photo last night

It also has a three way control bus with the connectors set in a
triangular pattern. The only constraint on it is that the cable is
physically long enough.

But, mine was the 45 not the 85

--
geoff