This thing sounds great, with a listed frequency range of 10Hz-50 kHz. Awesome Japanese-made graphic EQ circa 1985-1995. If you want to contribute, please mail your pdfs to. Definitely more professional EQs on the market these days, but this can satisfy basic needs and look good doing it. Kenwood GE-1100 Graphic Equalizer with Reverb. This is the 16 pages manual for Kenwood GE 1100 Service Manual. Overall, I'd recommend this EQ for its presentation and fair amount of usefulness. It's nice to be able to cut off these mostly unused frequencies that can muddy up the sound. I like that this unit has very low (16hz) and very high (32khz) adjusters. Kenwood GE-1100 Graphic Equalizer Reverb Spectrum Analyzer. Note: if one LED is out, they'll all go out like a strand of Christmas lights. It's possible that you may luck out as well. I hear that burnt out LEDs and bulbs are common for this unit, but I got mine in perfect working order from the Salvation Army. Most of the buttons are plastic, though the bottom row is possibly aluminum. The front plate is indeed aluminum, but fairly thin and painted black. If you plan on actually using the equalizer as I do, I'm sorry, that display will probably remain off most of the time.īuild quality is solidly OK. If you want the shiny reverb lights to play along with your music (fair enough: they look neat), its best not to hook this equalizer up in the signal path. This was a fairly popular effect to add to audio systems in the early 1980s and, in my opinion, it sounds absolutely terrible. I'm sorry to say that this thing has a built in reverberation generator. It has a VFD Spectrum Analyzer (those bouncing bars that dance with your music) which is a nice touch, as well as a reverberation depth display which looks really but will most likely never be on. 12 bands, high gain on each, great VFD display and reverb Component. Each of the switches has its own LED, along with a few LED indicators on the bottom row. Kenwood GE-1100 graphic equalizer, apparently made in the late 80s into the mid 90s. It does not muddy up the signal path like some other models from this era do, it has a couple neat displays on it, and the 12 bands are granular enough for basic tweaking. Der GE-1100 ist mehr als ein Graphic Equalizer: Das Gert bietet auch Spektrum-Analyse und sogar einen eingebauten Hallverstrker. Item will be packed well and insured through Reverb (signature required upon delivery).This is a decent equalizer for the early 1980s. Price250.00 Calls Only Cash Only We live in Ariton. As this is a vintage electronic item, returns will not be accepted. Vintage Kenwood GE-1100 Graphic Equalizer, Reverb, Spectrum Analyzer which is in good working condition. This will help provide guidance with initial setup and will be included with the sale. I was able to locate the first few pages (5) of user manual online. Please refer to all photos to form your own conclusions on the physical condition of the graphic equalizer.įrequency Bands: 16, 32, 63, 125, 250, 500, 1K, 2K, 4K, 8K, 16K, 32KHz It is a terrible idea to cascade two EQ's together. The latter is extremely expensive, and I have not seen a lot of these around. The better EQ's are digital 1/6, 1/10, 1/20 and 1/30 EQ's which the latter can basically correct most anything. The metal case is in very good condition as well with minimal visible wear. The most common usable EQ is a analog or digital 1/3 octave 30 band EQ, where the first band begins at 20hz. 38 subscribers Subscribe 98 10K views 4 years ago Audiophile collector's in-demand model Kenwood GE1100 with 18Hz and 32Hz bands for bass control - Found only in pro equalizers Show more Show. When choosing capacitors, I went with either the cheapest 'audio' Nichicon or general-purpose caps when they presented better specs on paper (used ripple current and service hours as a metric. A few minor blemishes scattered throughout. I'll be replacing all electrolytics without distinction as to where they reside in the equalizer, along with upgrading the plethora of 4558D with NE5532P. Face plate and buttons are in great shape it and shows very well. All frequency band slider LED's in working order, along with Spectrum analyzer display & reverb display.Ĭosmetically, this graphic equalizer is in fantastic shape. For your consideration is a very nice Kenwood GE-1100 Stereo Graphic Equalizer (12-Band )w/ Spectrum Analyzer & Reverberation in good working order and in near mint condition! Everything on this graphic equalizer is working as it should.
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