Acquired A Complete Kenwood System From The Early Eighties, Looking For Guidance

There are hundreds of vintage Kenwood manuals available online, often free...

if memory serves me, it would be on top of the cabinet the turntable then the amplifier, tuner, cassette deck, with the timer at the bottom. You can change the tuner or the cassette deck if you like there’s not a Hierarchy to that one. With the cableing connection, make sure you connect each corresponding piece of equipment to the amplifier making sure you connect red to red and white to white. With the white representing the left side. Take speaker wire make sure to do the same only this time, red to red and black to black. I would use the two switched Outlet for the cassette player and record player, with the timer going into the unswitched. plug the tuner into the timer.  If it looks to be necessary, get some electrical equipment cleaner to help with any oxidation that may have occurred. probably are going to want to get some pledge for those speaker cabinets. Also maybe look at some silk flower cleaner at Michael’s for the speaker fabric. Good luck hope this helps you somewhat

@angelaj 

Do you have some kind of setting on your keyboard that makes the first letter of every word a capital?

@jl35 , The Only Site I Found No Longer Allows Registration To Obtain The Manuals. I think I Found Only Two.

@gkelly Thank You ! Helpful Indeed !

@roxy54 I Do Not.. Lol..  It's Just A Habit I've Gotten Into Which Now Comes Naturally After So Many Years... 

Does seem like they do charge for manuals now...sorry about that...really not complicated though, and @gkelly gave great guidance...

@gkelly ,

Silk flower cleaner for the grills.

Never thought of that!

@angelaj 

Well, I guess there are worse habits, like smoking, but still...

@angelaj 

Back in the 80s, It Was Common for Manufacturers to Market Complete 1-Brand Systems Under the Category of "Rack System" with One Model# for the Entire System.

(I tried caps for the beginning of each word, but my old brain/body aren’t cooperating) You might try Googling "Kenwood Rack System" to see if anything shows up.  You might get lucky and find promotional materials that will show a photo of the complete assembled system.

Good luck.

An example:

Kenwood rack system

@waytoomuchstuff Lol... Thank You !

It seems that you have done your due diligence about asking questions on the Internet. I believe I have found one of your posts on Reddit with the pictures of your system. It appears to me that mid range driver in the upper right needs to have it surround repaired. From my understanding(I have never done this before) It is a relatively easy fix. Places like miller sound or simply speakers should be able to help you out in this department. Along with those people and a couple YouTube directional videos should have you on your way quite easily. 

@gkelly Yes, you are correct, it does need repair and I'm clueless on how do so. I live in central WI, so getting it to Miller is not feasible....Unless of course the component can be removed and shipped for repair. Appreciate all the feedback !

This is of my opinion. When it comes to vintage gear learning how to do the repair yourself Is a must. Having a tech work on your stuff can get expensive quickly. 
your speaker repair is in my understanding a relatively easy DIY project. Reach out to Miller sound for some basic guidance and once again search YouTube videos. Start by taking off those four screws that hold that speaker and you’re halfway there. 

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=kenwood+kl-999x&_trksid=p4439441.m4084.l2632&_sacat=183077
This might be a resource for you or at least a place to start. 

angelaj

Since you are in Wisconsin, you must check out Madisound. They are an excellent resource for repair of all types, and excellent people.....near Madison, WI