Kenwood DT-7000S Sirius Home Satellite Radio Receiver With TosLink Connector

The Kenwood DT-7000S is the company’s first Sirius satellite radio receiver designed strictly for use at home, as opposed to shuttling back and forth between the car and a home base station. But the car-based units won’t have the DT-7000S’s stunning good looks. If you want the variety of Sirius. 61 commercial-free music streams (channels) and 40-something news, sports, and talk streams as a permanent part of your entertainment system, the DT-7000S delivers. The DT-7000S’s slick style doesn’t hamper its functionality. The mirrored front panel continuously displays channel name, artist name, and song title. The display is flanked by 10 station preset buttons on the left (you can store up to 80 stations in four banks), with various control and display buttons on the right. Topside on the outside main body of the unit, you’ll find two jog wheels. The left one selects from a group of Sirius categories–Rock, Pop, Country, Hip-Hop, News, Entertainment, and so on–and the right one selects streams within the categories. We found most of the controls intuitive and easy to use. During our first week with the DT-7000S, we noted the display would occasionally freeze and not read the artist and song titles. We eventually determined the glitch was caused by coiling up most of the 50-foot extension cable we used to run the antenna to a window. Uncoiling the wire eliminated the problem. The DT-7000S’s back panel offers two types of outputs, stereo analog and an optical digital connector. You can use either to hook the DT-7000S to a receiver or HTIB. There’s also a special Sirius satellite radio antenna jack and an RS-232S port intended for use with automated system controllers. If you’re musically adventurous, Sirius will turn you on to new music. And if you just want to hear more mainstream, all-hits-all-the-time programming, you’ll also be well served by Sirius. And you’ll never have to wait for the DJ to back-announce the song you loved 25 minutes ago; the display continuously shows the artist names and song titles. We were always discovering new music. The DT-7000S has a versatile timer and some sleep/alarm options. Before we could hear anything, we had to experiment to find the best spot for the antenna. Optimum reception and antenna orientation varies with geographical location. For our Brooklyn, New York, listening room, we used a westward-facing window. Reception is a go/no-go event, and once you’ve got it, you’ll never experience the noise or multipath distortion that so often plays havoc with FM radio reception. Sound quality seems much improved over the Kenwood. Unit we tested last year. That model sounded somewhat harsh and mushy. Audio quality still varies from stream to stream. We also compared the better-sounding music streams via the DT-7000S’s optical digital and stereo analog outputs and judged the digital connection to offer slightly cleaner treble response and significantly higher-definition bass. A bunch of streams were playing the heck out of Norah Jones’s new Feels Like Home CD, and the sound was closer to CD quality than we’ve heard from satellite radio. The sound was still not as good as CD, but more than acceptable for most listeners. The item “Kenwood DT-7000S Sirius Home Satellite Radio Receiver With TosLink Connector” is in sale since Sunday, May 07, 2017. This item is in the category “Consumer Electronics\Portable Audio & Headphones\Portable Satellite Radios”. The seller is “gungadgets” and is located in Chico, California. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Audio Outputs: Stereo L/R RCA
• MPN: 192-8525
• Country/Region of Manufacture: Korea, Republic of
• Display: Digital
• Tuner Type: Sirius Satellite
• UPC: 019048150417
• Brand: Kenwood
• Model: DT-7000S
• Compatible Service: For Sirius