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Just recapped a pair of Sansui SP2000 speakers

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rkgren1

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I am sure this has been posted many times. But...

I bought the speakers at a flea market a while back. I noticed they were buzzy playing some music off Youtube and the buzz was somewhat inconsistent. So, I bought the crossover capacitors and just replaced them all. $7.00 for the parts, $6.95 for shipping from Parts Express. OUCH. The job took about an hour. A power screwdriver would have made the job far less work of removing the backs. Not bad even without it.

The difference in sound with the new parts is phenomenal! They are completely changed!

No more distortion and the sound overall is way clearer. Vocals are changed dramatically.

I cannot recommend this bit of work enough for the the other owners of old speakers.
 
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Sansui made some nice speakers. they were probably orig. caps and new life into the frequency response. Enjoy. (That bit of cost will wear off soon. :D)
 
30+ year old cap replacement is a good thing. Glad it worked out for you. $13.95 to bring back good sound is a minimal cost; the more you listen to them the less the cost bothers you. Enjoy!
 
Sansui made some great speakers. A few bad ones but mostly great. They get a bad rep because some look over done but it works so who cares if they have forty speakers in one cabinet. Enjoy yours.
 
rkgren1 said:
I am sure this has been posted many times. But...

I bought the speakers at a flea market a while back. I noticed they were buzzy playing some music off Youtube and the buzz was somewhat inconsistent. So, I bought the crossover capacitors and just replaced them all. $7.00 for the parts, $6.95 for shipping from Parts Express. OUCH. The job took about an hour. A power screwdriver would have made the job far less work of removing the backs. Not bad even without it.

The difference in sound with the new parts is phenomenal! They are completely changed!

No more distortion and the sound overall is way clearer. Vocals are changed dramatically.

I cannot recommend this bit of work enough for the the other owners of old speakers.
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I would like to know what kit or parts you used as I will be picking up a pair. Thanks
 
Welcome to AK!
When you get the speakers, perhaps audition them. Suggest they may need caps and price bargain a bit? However, when you get them just post up pics and values of the caps and we'll recommend replacements.
 
Littlejohnp said:
I would like to know what kit or parts you used as I will be picking up a pair. Thanks
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Hi LittleJohn.
Welcome to AK.

I don't recall the parts required off-hand, and I did not document anything.
IIRC I used new electrolytics in place of the usual upgrade to film caps.
I would not be surprised to find a thread about them somewhere on AK.
Worst case is that you check for yourself once you have them.

A can of contact cleaner will be useful for flushing the L-pads, so long as you are in there.
Note that the grills are held on by little black wood screws in the corners.
 
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