Kenwood L-03DP

Not just another clone : the 240,000¥ L-03DP featured nothing less than 6-pin Sigma Drive outputs, separate trafo windings for analogue and digital sections and a lot of customized parts.
Plus an impressive 8Kb memory for programming.

The original version of this particular design is the Toshiba XR-Z90 ; other rebadges were the Alpine AD-7100 and Luxman DX-104.
Audio ICs are however all Sony.

Not the worst looking, not the best looking - but placed right off the bat by Kenwood among its reference series with the capital "L" - Digital Audio Disc was ultra-high-tech, remember ?
As proof, this overlong sentence is backlit under the main display : "This player incorporates a microcomputer and random access memory for ultra-convenient operation which combines with the new super-high performance levels created by Kenwood Digital Audio Disc technology."


All about the L-03DP at the indispensable vintage-audio-laser.com.