Looking to purchase a european Kenwood tuner that's 220v/50hz. It will be used in the US with step down transformer. Will it work on 60hz power?
thanks
thanks
Should work, and 60Hz is easier to filter. Can it use US station spacing, if it is digital tuning?
Sometimes there is a switch. It won't matter for an analog tuner.
Sometimes there is a switch. It won't matter for an analog tuner.
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fyi - for electronics that travel across the Atlantic: I have a European Marantz receiver (lovely unit) which is all analogue and I also have a British Sansui tuner (also lovely and I swapped out the power transformer to make the unit native). Both of them were set up for European FM de-emphasis which when used in Canada produces excessive upwards tilt in the audio frequency that is most notable - too bright, too much treble. The de-emphasis filter is implemented on both units as simple passive circuits. I believe Canadian de-emphasis is the same as US.