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Hi just bought a Kenwood KR4070 last night This Receiver should Rock!!! Opinions Please?
The pecking order of receivers for those years was the almighty KR-9600 ---> KR-8010 ---> KR-6030 ---> KR-5030 ---> KR-4070 -> 3090 -> 2090 -> KS-400R
The Kenwoods of this series are notorious for having a power switch that slowly destroys itself; the switch isn't actually capable of switching the power that it draws at turn-on. It arcs and damages the contacts. If you've got basic soldering skills and a little extra wire, you can easily make a the switch control a relay that will switch the unit on and off and prevent destruction of the no-longer-available on-off switch.
Other than that, though, a KR-4070 is what got me into vintage audio. Great sounding units with surprisingly good tuners.