I think Kenwood must have a knob fetish. They were really pushing the TS-590 in Dayton -- you couldn't walk through their area without being forced to take a glossy, detailed, thick brochure/booklet about it. It goes into great detail about the new features.
A whole page is devoted to the Main Control Knob.
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Each of the aluminum parts is machined with CNC (Computerized numeric control) and treated with spin finish. We also paid careful attention to the color of the main control knob; we have colored the knob with a color alumite treatment.
We made samples repeatedly until the desired color was finalized. The alumite color is adjusted to match the rubber color of the knob ring [got a knob ring?] and the paint color of the front panel in order to express the integration and massiveness of the entire panel.
