Chris Smith Gets Last Kenwood KDC-DAB455IU Digital Radio

Regular readers will know that Talk Audio were allocated ten Kenwood KDC-DAB455IU digital radios to award to you lot, by our sweet chums in Watford, at Kenwood House, right next to Lottery HQ. Complete with glass mount antennae, to give away as ‘˜swag’. Well, we did a bunch of cool things with the tenth one! First, Chris Smith, our winner, arrived mad early as he started in Highdown Car Audio land, deep on the south coast. I got to their office (dead local to me) to a lovely tray of coffee, tea and posh biccies and then we toddled off to the utterly superb listening room they have at Kenwood, to do a review of their new XR-1088P seven inch component speakers. Then it was to the board room for a really tasty picnic lunch.
Chris was awarded his Kenwood KDC-DAB455IU digital radio and then we went into the car park at Kenwood to check out the superb DNN-9230DAB, the double-DIN sized unit that can channel and reformat the internet by use of a wireless dongle which comes with the unit and goes onto one of two USB extensions. You can play internet radio and do all sorts, such as look at Talk Audio!
Chris got to hang with the execs while we tested the speakers, videoed the headunit, saw the new amplifier I have got to test and then finally was told he could have the new XR components, to keep, after I had reviewed them.
On top of all THAT, I was also sorted with a headunit for Caramel Quin link who is going to do a deepcore mama flavoured test for us! She’s a top tech reviewer. More of that, later.
But Chris is of course a sound off competitor and I have checked, that stuff WON is OK to use in sound off. And he won fair and square! So, he will be trying these in his car in competition, which aughta be interesting, since they are the same price as the speakers they will replace for his use in competitions! Aughta be interesting.
The unit Chris was swagged!