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Discussion: 1950's Sansui tube receives, amplifiers and transformers (where it all began) - media, manuals and more!

JimEGR · 2025-02-26T01:00:17+00:00

There is very little product documentation out there for this period. The Best of Sansui has a couple of models documented - http://www.sansui.us/HistProd.htm tube-amps.net lists what is probably the most complete product list for this period - http://tube-amps.net/Sansui_Tube_Era_Prod_List.htm I recently lucked upon what looks to be late a 50's product catalog. The exclusion of the Q-15 suggests the catalog is pre-1961. Much of the product is shown on tube-amps.net, but there is at least one product that is unique to this catalog - the V-60 power amp. The catalog is printed on very thin, nearly transparent paper. You can see a shadow of the print from the backside of each page. I can't tell if it is frail from age, or this was just the nature of the paper it was printed on. It is very fragile. Would not survive page turning in a three ring binder it was punched for. I wish I knew it's story. Could have been in a company file for all of these years, or with a collector, relative or former employee - it is a mystery. Pretty fascinating to think of the history of this piece, and all these years later here it sits on my kitchen table in the USA - and now translated and digitized into the public domain for all of the globe. I'll send a hi-res copy to the AK Database and post a link to it HERE once the upload is processed. If you have any other products or documentation (or discussion) for this period please post it here.

Thread starter JimEGR
Start date Feb 25, 2025

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Sansuiman said:
Wow, according to the specs on the 2nd page, it even comes with "sex", and based on the graph beneath that heading, a whole lot of it. This amp really has everything.

It sells!

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