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2017 Sansui Serial Number Database

My harvest for KW42:
331,016072250,catawiki.com
AU-217,857100216,catawiki.com
AU-D77X,434082304,catawiki.com
D-570,852060248,catawiki.com
R-30,879063688,catawiki.com
3900Z,850112823,marktplaats.nl
A-E350,606058323,marktplaats.nl
AU-505,814081607,marktplaats.nl
AU-555,019100002,marktplaats.nl
AU-555A,833080681,marktplaats.nl
AU-6900,227020234,marktplaats.nl
AU-G33X,436055595,marktplaats.nl
AU-X111,609082192,marktplaats.nl
AU-X301i,04901000468,marktplaats.nl
B-1000,508050509,marktplaats.nl
CD-V1000,327100875,marktplaats.nl
CD-X319,533100517,marktplaats.nl
D-X111HX,570123064,marktplaats.nl
D-X301i,428101027,marktplaats.nl
G-8000,858020500,marktplaats.nl
RZ-1000,508052474,marktplaats.nl
TU-S55X,644040652,marktplaats.nl
TU-X111,619085039,marktplaats.nl
TU-X301iL,600113975,marktplaats.nl
T-701XR,622098974,marktplaats.nl
A-701XR,602100223,marktplaats.nl
 
kw43 harvest...never had so many offers without any pictures taken from the backside of the stuff. The list could have been twice if not thirce as long...

4000,029081543,kleinanzeigen
7070,216072813,kleinanzeigen
A-505,583016330,kleinanzeigen
AU-317,238090373,kleinanzeigen
AU-X301i,530010745,kleinanzeigen
AX-7,918072495,kleinanzeigen
B-1000,508062177,kleinanzeigen
D-X301i,328082798,kleinanzeigen
QS-500,831080059,kleinanzeigen
R-50,879072142,kleinanzeigen
RZ-1000,519091533,kleinanzeigen
S-U770,70901,kleinanzeigen
SR-222 MKV,315102333,kleinanzeigen
TU-317,628102112,kleinanzeigen
TU-710,847110355,kleinanzeigen
 
Thank you guys! They will be in the October report available in early November.

Cognicide said:
TR-707a,25080228,Cognicide
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Hi Cognicide, welcome to AudioKarma Exclusively Sansui. Your TR-707A was build on production line 2 in August of 1965. It was the 228th unit off that line that month. We have 26 of these early models on file and yours is one of the earliest ones produced.

- Pete
 
My harvest for WK43:
331,015061420,catawiki.com
AU-2900,517020902,catawiki.com
B-3000,507050125,catawiki.com
BA-60,519100075,catawiki.com
D-X301i,428102866,catawiki.com
D-X317WR,632104467,catawiki.com
G-401,858100665,catawiki.com
P-L35,316051608,catawiki.com
SR-222MKii,318050711,catawiki.com
TU-666,231090226,catawiki.com
210S,222120104,marktplaats.nl
A-40,830082970,marktplaats.nl
A-510,474013668,marktplaats.nl
AU-X111,310110865,marktplaats.nl
AU-X201,507080691,marktplaats.nl
R-7,851090321,marktplaats.nl
SC-3300,250010966,marktplaats.nl
SE-7,582080360,marktplaats.nl
TA-500,038010027,marktplaats.nl
TU-217,028090138,marktplaats.nl
TU-X301i,618092935,marktplaats.nl

I put the next to last digit for the TA-500 as a 2:
TA-500.jpg
and discarded another serial as it was inconsistent with the database (there are no serials for this model starting with 655):
TU-D33X.jpg
 
My kw43 harvest:
221,026061883,kleinanzeigen
3300,222051054,kleinanzeigen
A-40,869062502,kleinanzeigen
A-40,600020362,kleinanzeigen
AU-X911DG,619082720,kleinanzeigen
AU-X701,607050388,kleinanzeigen
AU-717,227080098,kleinanzeigen
AU-alpha 907MR,605102382,kleinanzeigen
A-505,583016330,kleinanzeigen
BA-60,830100018,kleinanzeigen
CD-190,60104105,kleinanzeigen
D-X117HX,225098006015,kleinanzeigen
D-90,740043370,kleinanzeigen
D-100,740060561,kleinanzeigen
D-95M,481062084,kleinanzeigen
LM-220,606072,kleinanzeigen
R-5,841097276,kleinanzeigen
R-30,839072269,kleinanzeigen
RZ-3500,12003006638,kleinanzeigen
RA-500,220111320,kleinanzeigen
SP-2500A,95030509,kleinanzeigen
SP-50,92081076,kleinanzeigen
T-60,849121806,kleinanzeigen
TU-X701,627129192,kleinanzeigen
TU-517,218120190,kleinanzeigen
 
That was on kleinanzeigen, now also advertised on ebay.de (I am not affiliated with the seller)
https://www.ebay.de/itm/395835386897 and the serial in the pic on ebay is halfway more readable than the same pic on kleinanzeigen

The B-2301 is in the serial file, but the c-2301 is a complete outlier (in "C-2301 Vintage" in our PDF-file, it's marked "C-2301" only on the backplate)

C-2301 Vintage,666045939,ebay+kleinanzeigen

C-2301.jpg
 
My offerings for October 2024

350A,022090147,canuckaudiomart.com
350A,821040069,canuckaudiomart.com
441,024103761,kijiji.ca
551,815120293,kijiji.ca
6060,857050203,kijiji.ca, ,the 3 could be a 5
771,815101423,kijiji.ca
771,815101556,canuckaudiomart.com
9900Z,810110541,canuckaudiomart.com
A-80,879084542,kijiji.ca
AU-20000,216030127,hifi-solution.com
AU-20000,216040022,canuckaudiomart.com, ,7th digit very hard to read
AU-20000,216040525,usaudiomart.com
AU-20000,217060365,canuckaudiomart.com
AU-20000,236080091,canuckaudiomart.com
AU-20000,237040041,usaudiomart.com
AU-2200,915040468,kijiji.ca
AU-2900,836072270,canuckaudiomart.com
AU-3900,517042522,ebay.com
AU-3900,836060202,elektro.bazos.cz
AU-3900,836080069,ebay.com
AU-3900,836081076,tradera.com
AU-3900,836092615,subito.it
AU-3900,837010556,subito.it
AU-3900,857023878,stereonet.com
AU-4900,857010271,canuckaudiomart.com
AU-555A,581080170,reverb.com
AU-555A,581080262,subito.it
AU-555A,582011224,ebay.com
AU-555A,830060235,reverb.com
AU-555A,831040370,ebay.com
AU-555A,831051334,ebay.ca
AU-555A,833070430,dba.dk
AU-555A,833071154,ebay.ca
AU-5900,247020563,hark.paris
AU-5900,856120835,youtube.com
AU-6600,835010690,kijiji.ca
AU-717,217100501,CHS Labs
AU-7900,226080557,ebay.com
AU-7900,836100231,reverb.com
AU-8500,213120401,canuckaudiomart.com
AU-9900,215090116,canuckaudiomart.com
AU-alpha 607 MOS Premium,631094245,ebay.ca
AU-alpha 607NRA,608050216,canuckaudiomart.com
B-2102,607037174,usaudiomart.com
BA-2000,217070355,usaudiomart.com
CA-2000,217090234,canuckaudiomart.com
CA-2000,237120371,usaudiomart.com
CA-2000,238090012,reverb.com
CA-3000,225070195,canuckaudiomart.com
G-4500,829011554,kijiji.ca
G-5500,829021610,kijiji.ca
G-5500,829050981,canuckaudiomart.com
QRX-777,235080085,canuckaudiomart.com
RZ-3000,508080470,kijiji.ca
S-61C,133928,kijiji.ca, , another Carsen product
SE-9,605080240,canuckaudiomart.com
SP-1500,310101555,canuckaudiomart.com
SP-1500,90090906,canuckaudiomart.com
T-5,871120010,kijiji.ca
T-80,840030496,kijiji.ca
TU-3900,027050842,kijiji.ca
TU-3900,025100058,canuckaudiomart.com
TU-3900,846120696,subito.it
TU-5900,025110559,ebay.com
TU-5900,026040232,ebay.com
TU-777,240020627,kijiji.ca
TU-777,249091019,reverb.com
TU-7900,027021128,audiocostruzioni.com

Cheers,
(Two days away from Sansui and me going back 54 years!! Oct. 30 1970)
 
PE9ZZ said:
I put the next to last digit for the TA-500 as a 2:
View attachment 3329981
and discarded another serial as it was inconsistent with the database (there are no serials for this model starting with 655):
View attachment 3329982
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The production line designation for this model is all over the place. I count 10 different production lines including line 65. I don't see evidence of tampering with the serial number so it's likely to be a good SN. I would put it in. I'm more concerned with the TA-500 SN. Is there a better photo?

@Monicker1, thanks for posting. I like that you are adding notes for hard to read digits. To add a note after the "reporter," separate it with one comma and no spaces. Using two commas will shift the note into the "T-tag" field, skipping over the notes field. Is that a birthday you are commemorating or buying your first Sansui?

- Pete
 
That was the night Dad came home with a pile of stereo equipment we were allowed to audition. Night before Halloween 1970. He came home with a Pioneer, can't recall if it was a receiver or an amp, an AU-777a, a TU-999 and three sets of British speakers. We spent hours switching between the units and our Garrard 301 (which smelled like axle grease). I was 10. I had never heard of "Sansui" before that. It was time to replace the old table top single speaker Phillips radio from 1956. (Which I still have). We decided the Sansui amp and Tuner sounded the best. Kept a pair of KEFs. The others were returned. Imagine being allowed to take home all that equipment from a retailer today.

I got to use the home stereo almost anytime I wanted. The only Suis I actually bought was in 2007, the AU-3900 and AU-7900. Everything else was in the family system. The AU-777a died in the 1990s and was declared unrepairable. And the AU-20000 we bought new in the late 1970s has spent most of its life in a state of unusable disrepair - although it seems to be working now.

The kids in the neighbourhood heard loud music coming from our house that night, and they threw a dozen rotten eggs on the back of our house. October 30th was called "Mat Night" where you could open your door and find something burning on your doormat. Good times! Mom and Dad are long gone now. He would be 96 tonight. Miss them both.
 
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Monicker1 said:
That was the night Dad came home with a pile of stereo equipment we were allowed to audition. Night before Halloween 1970. He came home with a Pioneer, can't recall if it was a receiver or an amp, an AU-777a, a TU-999 and three sets of British speakers. We spent hours switching between the units and our Garrard 301 (which smelled like axle grease). I was 10. I had never heard of "Sansui" before that. It was time to replace the old table top single speaker Phillips radio from 1956. (Which I still have). We decided the Sansui amp and Tuner sounded the best. Kept a pair of KEFs. The others were returned. Imagine being allowed to take home all that equipment from a retailer today.

I got to use the home stereo almost anytime I wanted. The only Suis I actually bought was in 2007, the AU-3900 and AU-7900. Everything else was in the family system. The AU-777a died in the 1990s and was declared unrepairable. And the AU-20000 we bought new in the late 1970s has spent most of its life in a state of unusable disrepair - although it seems to be working now.

The kids in the neighbourhood heard loud music coming from our house that night, and they threw a dozen rotten eggs on the back of our house. October 30th was called "Mat Night" where you could open your door and find something burning on your doormat. Good times! Mom and Dad are long gone now. He would be 96 tonight. Miss them both.
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Great story! Sadly the The AU-777a suffered the fate of a lot of equipment from the golden era, declared "unrepairable" and scrapped.

I'm going to run the October report now.

- Pete
 
Added 201 new serial numbers today and 3 new models. Overall very clean, no duplicates posted. Only one conflict:

AU-20000,216030127,hifi-solution.com has the same serial number as an AU-11000 that was entered in April 2004. Both were being built on Line 21 in March of '76 so it's possible it's a true duplicate but no way to double check the original entry.

- Pete
 
My harvest for KW44, checked against the new, latest database:
CD-X311,539101815,catawiki.com
QRX-9001,236100835,catawiki.com
TU-666,222070093,catawiki.com
AU-101,832111539,marktplaats.nl
AU-3900,835120302,marktplaats.nl,,duplicate AU-1100
AU-517,227081801,marktplaats.nl
AU-717,227100486,marktplaats.nl
AU-G77X,606076247,marktplaats.nl
CD-V1000,530030692,marktplaats.nl
CD-X617,22402004111,marktplaats.nl
D-W10,605056213,marktplaats.nl
FR-D25,411084632,marktplaats.nl
P-D10,412083663,marktplaats.nl
P-D11,604094759,marktplaats.nl

Had many duplicates, both the Wacky and MP. I had 35 serialz, pruned to only 14.

The AU-3900 is a duplicate for an AU-1100:
AU-3900.jpg
 
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