Ishmael
Super Member
Here are our Sansui 2000A ( right) and 4000 (left) receivers. The 2000A was our first Sansui receiver (our first Sansui was a TU-717 in our main system, a superb tuner). We have found in our main listening room that the 2000A will effortlessly drive our Wharfedale W70 speakers. This is the blessing of efficient speakers and a 35watt receiver, you will never exceed the receiver’s capacity, yet you have all the power the speakers will ever need to reproduce the music. The 4000 which we picked up today is matched with our Walnut Original Large Advent speakers, here again the match is very very good (it is a seeming requirement that for gear to be vintage somewhere you will find small speckles of old paint, such was true again when I cleaned the 4000 and found three tiny paint drops on the heat sink in the back). There is to my ear a synergy when vintage components of a similar time period are matched together, it is as if the designers of the speakers and the receivers were thinking of each other (which I believe must have been the case), or, as Rich says at the end of Casablanca “Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”