Description

Kenwood’s VR-410 offers the kind of cool, forward-thinking features that A/V fans love! SRS Circle Surround 5.1 gives you more ways than ever to enjoy 5.1-channel sound. If you’re a fan of older movies but wish you could experience them in spacious surround, or you just want bigger impact from your favorite recorded programs, your wish has come true. This unique feature produces 5.1-channel surround sound from almost any source — even from stereo-encoded broadcasts!

This Kenwood is loaded with goodies — the list goes on and on: 100 watts x 5 channels for powerful music and home theater; an anti-resonant aluminum front panel; built-in Dolby® Digital and DTS decoding to unlock the 5.1-channel discrete digital sound on thousands of DVD movie soundtracks; 3 audio DSP modes with user adjustments that let you customize the sound to your tastes; and a 5.1-channel input for compatibility with future multichannel formats. Preamp outputs for all channels let you upgrade your system with separate amps. There’s also an optical output for direct digital recording to CD-R or MiniDisc.

Details:

Dolby Digital, DTS, and Pro Logic™ decoding

SRS Circle Surround 5.1

3 audio DSP modes

4 digital inputs (2 optical, 2 coaxial)

optical digital output

3 audio, 5 A/V (including one 5.1-channel, 1 front-panel, and 5 S-video) inputs

preamp outputs for all channels

100 watts x 2 (stereo) into 8 ohms (20-20,000 Hz) at 0.7% THD — or 100 watts x 5 in home theater mode

anti-resonant aluminum front panel

40 AM/FM presets

Dimensions: 17-5/16″W x 5-3/4″H x 16-1/2″D

Includes soft copy of manual in PDF, but no remote. This is a great Kenwood AVR for an excellent price of just $125.

Additional information
Weight25 lbs
Dimensions20.5 × 21.5 × 10.75 in
About brand
Kenwood at Radique
We service Kenwood, too. Bring us your own Kenwood receivers, amplifiers, preamps, tuners, CD players and cassette decks for repair, servicing or restoration (solid-state gear; we don't take in tube equipment), with a 90-day warranty on the work. See our Audio Service page

Kenwood began in 1946 as Kasuga Radio in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. As Trio, it sold its products in America under the Kenwood name, and took that name worldwide in 1986. We carry Kenwood stereo receivers and AV receivers, power amplifiers, preamplifiers, tuners and CD players. We've had nearly 60 Kenwood listings so far, covering about 50 different models. Every used Kenwood here is inspected, tested and serviced as required, then photographed in-house and covered by our Bumper-to-Bumper Warranty and Perpetual Trade-Back Program. Don't see the model you want? Tell us on First Dibs and we'll email you when one arrives.

Kenwood models we've sold more than once include the KM-208 power amplifier and the KA-550D integrated amplifier.

The Kenwood story, 1946 to today

Kasuga Radio was founded in 1946 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, making radio components, and opened a mass-production plant in Tokyo in 1955. It was renamed Trio around 1960.

Where the name came from. Kenwood was coined in America. Bill Kasuga and George Aratani set up Kenwood Electronics in the early 1960s to sell Trio products in the US, and Kasuga said he chose "Ken" because it works as both a Japanese and an American name. Trio later bought Kenwood Electronics, and in 1986 the whole company became Kenwood Corporation.

The hi-fi years. Trio-Kenwood built KR receivers through the 1970s, the KA-1000 integrated amplifier with heat-pipe cooling in 1980, and late-1980s amplifiers with Sigma Drive, which takes the feedback loop out to the speaker terminals. The KR-A receivers ran from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s.

Today. Kenwood merged with JVC between 2008 and 2011, and JVCKENWOOD Corporation now owns the brand. In Canada, Kenwood today sells car audio, two-way radios and earbuds rather than home hi-fi.

Which Kenwood is which?

1970s KR receivers: such as the KR-2600 of 1976 to 1978, at 15 watts per channel.

KA integrated amps: the KA-1000 of 1980, and the late-1980s "D" models such as the KA-990D, KA-880D and KA-550D, with Sigma Drive.

Power amps and separates: such as the KM-208 power amp of 1987 to 1988, the high-end L-series, and the Basic M and C separates.

KR-A receivers (1984 to 1996) and later AV receivers such as the KRF-A 4020 of 1999.

Tuners and CD players: KT tuners and DP CD players and changers.