Must be some sort of interesting story behind how you found the BA5000. One of the very few Sansui pieces still on my list to acquire.
-Lee
I bet the story how this unit came to Costa Rica or who was the original owner is fantastic. How I got it is not.
To be fair I was at home and a fellow how sells me broken stuff to fix, called me
- Is this amps to complicated to fix?
- yes
- Would you like to buy it?
- No, I'm looking for Pioneer stuff (right Kevzep?) too many Sansuis.
- come on, I give you a nice price for it.
- Damn it, I don't want it.
- Let's do this, I'll take it to your place you can check it and after that if you don't want it is ok.
- All right, fair enough.
He was looking for some old radios or something and got it for a gentleman. That's all I know
I must say that there is not too much for love for vintage audio in this country, people here seems to like Technics and Sony from the 80's or on the other hand... high end stuff like CJ, ARC and that.
The units are usually on terrible shape, hacked with bad parts... this one doesn't look that bad. BTW power switch is backward. 'On' is off and 'Off' is on.