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Sansui Serial Number Database Update

Thanks, got it. Your G-5700 was the 244th unit off production line 82 in September of 1979.

- Pete
 
AU-X701,607050349,stereo71

Curious when Sansui changed from the old logo, to the newer one, in 1987. This unit has the old logo...most pics of this amp available online show the newer one.

Thanks Pete!
 
LBPete said:
Hi @Paul054, welcome to AudioKarma Exclusively Sansui. Thanks for making your first post a serial number. Your AU-6500 was the 28th unit off assembly line 01 in November of 1973.

- Pete
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Ok cool . That's a pretty early one then.
Ive also recently bought an AU6600 and it has no serial number on the back plate. Would it be located anywhere else like inside the cover? I also have a 6900 I will find it and get that number to you as well
 
stereo71 said:
AU-X701,607050349,stereo71

Curious when Sansui changed from the old logo, to the newer one, in 1987. This unit has the old logo...most pics of this amp available online show the newer one.

Thanks Pete!
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My guess is, when there is a logo change like this, it's phased in. It's first used on newly introduced models and then older models get updated. Your AU-701 was built in May of '87, very early in the production run.

Paul054 said:
Ok cool . That's a pretty early one then.
Ive also recently bought an AU6600 and it has no serial number on the back plate. Would it be located anywhere else like inside the cover? I also have a 6900 I will find it and get that number to you as well
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It would have also been on the box it came in but that's probably long gone. Looking at pictures on the internet, it should be on the left side of the back deck under the input RCA jacks. Does it look like it's been scraped off?

Thanks guys!
- Pete
 
@stereo71,
Officially, the logo changed June of 87 according to a company history I saw somewhere quite a while ago. Print advertising and any products launched from June 87 onwards had the new logo. Products already in production appear to have had the logo change phased in as parts with the old logo were depleted. I imagine owners and service manuals were reprinted on a phased in basis as well, as I've seen manuals for some models with two versions, one for each logo.

I just picked up a CD-X701 CD player with an old logo, but most I see pictures of have the new logo, just as one example. The front panels are actually different, the old logo version has a stamped in rectangular recess for the badge, the new style has the badge surface mounted on two pegs that go through the panel. The screen print of the model number is positioned differently between the two versions as well.

I need to submit serials for that unit, and several other recent acquisitions here. Will do so shortly.
 
Have the following to add:

SP-70,92021971,Sansuiman
SP-70,92022081,Sansuiman
SP-70,91111823,Sansuiman
SP-70,91111815,Sansuiman
AU-101,832104604,Sansuiman
TU-505,233050180,Sansuiman
CA-606,233040176,Sansuiman,JDM 100V
BA-150,211010083,Sansuiman,JDM 100V
AU-555A-820062426,Sansuiman,JDM 100V
QS-1,221021203,Sansuiman,JDM 100V
CD-X701,337042007,Sansuiman
C-2101,625024693,Sansuiman
B-2301,666044473,Sansuiman
 
Sansuiman said:
@stereo71,
Officially, the logo changed June of 87 according to a company history I saw somewhere quite a while ago. Print advertising and any products launched from June 87 onwards had the new logo. Products already in production appear to have had the logo change phased in as parts with the old logo were depleted. I imagine owners and service manuals were reprinted on a phased in basis as well, as I've seen manuals for some models with two versions, one for each logo.

I just picked up a CD-X701 CD player with an old logo, but most I see pictures of have the new logo, just as one example. The front panels are actually different, the old logo version has a stamped in rectangular recess for the badge, the new style has the badge surface mounted on two pegs that go through the panel. The screen print of the model number is positioned differently between the two versions as well.

I need to submit serials for that unit, and several other recent acquisitions here. Will do so shortly.
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@Sansuiman, thanks for the info!
Another thing I find strange, is that the 5000-X receivers, which most of the time shipped with the wood case, have the unit serial number tape affixed to the center top rear surface of the case. This may be due to the lack of a suitable area on the rear of the chassis to fit the sticker. But it sure seems odd not to place a serial on the actual unit; the older version 5000 (and also the -A, I think) did have a spot on the rear panel big enough to put the sticker. I'll have to check my examples and report their serial#s as well. I know for sure I have one 5000-X without a serial tag; I found a capacitor with a production date, and a stamped code on the FM tuning capacitor frame that appeared to be date of production, to guess it's assembly date.
 
@stereo71 - my 5000X is like that as well. Rather a foolish placement of the S/N on the wood case, I think. This may be due to the 5000X adding pre-out/main ins on the rear panel.
 
Sansuiman said:
@stereo71 - my 5000X is like that as well. Rather a foolish placement of the S/N on the wood case, I think. This may be due to the 5000X adding pre-out/main ins on the rear panel.
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Haven't tried to search for this info, but has anyone come up with a list of the assembly-line locations? That might be interesting, especially if some of those correlate with the T-tag indicators.
 
@antpaubarcar - almost unbelievably, the BA-150 was purchased locally from a fellow collector who himself had purchase it locally at an estate sale some time earlier. The others were all purchased via Ebay US, from listings posted there by sellers in Japan.

After factoring in fees and shipping costs via Aleado, I was able to purchase those components for less overall through the respective eBay listings. Also - quite to my relief - no customs fees were assessed on any of them on import.

The AU-555A and QS-1 were sold together as a set, complete with original boxes and all documentation. The CA-606 was a seperate purchase from a resale shop in Japan, and arrived fully recapped, much to my surprise, as it was not listed that way.

The system built around these has become one of my very favorites, as it not only sounds and looks great, but took quite a lot of time and effort to assemble.
 
LBPete said:
I've updated the Sansui Serial Number Database. It had not been updated since January 2009. I've compiled all the serial numbers posted in the database update thread.

The updated Sansui Serial Number list is now resides in the Digital Docs forum. You can get to it directly by clicking on this link: Sansui Serial Number Data.

The database is extremely useful to determine things like the time frame units were built and the approximate number of units built. The more serial numbers collected, the better the data.

Please post your serial numbers to the 2017 database update thread located here.

When posting serial numbers please use this format: Serial Number, Model, AK handle. Like this: AU-919,220031540,LBPete. This format lets me cut and paste a list with all the data that can be uploaded into MS Access. Otherwise I have to reformat the data into this format. The commas are very important. They tell access to skip to the next field.

Lastly, please double check your serial numbers after you post them. There are a lot of decoding errors because the serial number don't follow the correct date format or the number of digits is wrong. Most equipment is 9 digits except speakers and some other oddball stuff. The 4 and 5 digits must equal a month designation.

- Pete
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Hi just wondering if the database changed? I haven't been on here for a while, but I only see models, dates, and #s, Didn't it used to also list the username of the owner?
 
Not to speak for Pete, but one AK username is incorporated into the database for each entry of gear they personally own, if submitted. Those serials scraped from online photos (sales or otherwise) are noted thusly in the username field. More recently Pete has added a miscellaneous notes field to add other pertinent information about units submitted for inclusion.
 
@Sansuiman
Those four Sansui' s together make a great early quad system I am jealous!
I managed to buy through Aleado some items cheaper then on Ebay JP with shipping through Ems, the problem now is that Ems is not available to Portugal and Ups, FedEx or Dhl are much more expensive because of their taxes for customs clearence as here everything that comes from outside of EU always pays 23% Vat and depending on the items sometimes customs taxes!
 
Sansuiman said:
Not to speak for Pete, but one AK username is incorporated into the database for each entry of gear they personally own, if submitted. Those serials scraped from online photos (sales or otherwise) are noted thusly in the username field. More recently Pete has added a miscellaneous notes field to add other pertinent information about units submitted for inclusion.
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Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, or something is wrong with my laptop, but there are no UNs where I'm looking...
 

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For privacy reasons, the user names were never included in the public database report but are recorded in the database master file along with notes on particular units. If you contact me by PM I can give you a list of units with your user name tagged. I will not give this information to anyone other than the user name on file.

- Pete
 
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