I was stationed in the Philippines for a couple years back in the 1970s. The Japanese hifi manufacturers loved us GIs in the Far East (Japan, Okinawa, Korea, The Philippines, etc.) because they could cheaply introduce their new gear to an American test market with little financial risk, before mass producing and exporting their product to the US. The average GI has much the same tastes as the average American so if a certain model sold well to GIs overseas then the order was given to ramp up production and export it to the US. If sales were poor then chances are that model didn't get the okay for a big production run and exportation. Less risk for them and a nice perk for the GI (no customs or duty fees, Uncle Sam paid for the shipping back to the World, and prices were a lot cheaper compared to Stateside prices). A good example is the 7000 - when those fusible resistors smoked (They must have had a bad batch) and burned on several units sold to NEX, PX, and BX customers, word got out fast. "What makes a 7000 work? Smoke! When you let the smoke out, it quits working". I don't think Sansui even bothered to export the 7000, they doubled-down on the Eight instead.
Anyway, I've owned a bunch of Sansui gear over the years since the '70s. Several years ago I contacted Jim Showker (R.I.P. Jim) to restore my QRX-9001 and after I got it back and was really impressed with the results, I also had him restore and recap my QRX-999 and QRX-8001. When I asked him to do my Eight, I also sent him some scans of old Sansui brochures I had from the '70s. He told me about AudioKarma and suggested I join and share the scans with other Sansui enthusiasts. When I found out he passed away a couple weeks ago, I decided I should follow through with his suggestion.
Here a a couple pages from a Military Exchange (PX, BX, or NEX) from about 1971 or 2. I have some more pages from this brochure I can share if anyone really wants to see them, more receivers, amps and other items from this brochure and also a couple more Sansui brochures from other years in the '70s. I'll start another thread but these pages relate to the subject of this thread - the Eight and 7000
At the time of this brochure, the 7000 was the TOTL and first page and the only receiver in the brochure to get a full page.