Sansui SR-929
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Balifly
Listening
It was Sansui 's top of the line turn table in 1977.
Desirable for some Sansui enthusiast , rare in some area.
Decide on a budget and then try to find the most suitable within that price range.
http://www.vinylengine.com/library/sansui/sr-929.shtml
Make sure all the bits and pieces it should comes with are all there, not easy to find afterwards.
Lateral weight, anti-skate string, head shell and head shell weight, aux weight for tone arm etc.
Make sure the turn table quartz lock on and or off speed is consistent over time, 5 minutes(?).
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Obankenobi
Hypnotoaded
Hey, if you happen to be looking at mine in the Redwood Empire, you're welcome to swing by and take a look at it! Its listed here in Bartertown and the SF Craiglist.
fish mojo
Active Member
That must be your CL ad I'm drooling over. Biggest decision is whether or not to get back into vinyl. If I do, I want to keep it Sansui to go with the rest of my gear. I'll let you know.
Obankenobi
Hypnotoaded
Mojo, not that I would EVER resort to a hard sell 
but........ a couple years back I told a friend I wanted to try out vinyl again. Without prompting, he showed up one day and gave me his hot rodded Denon DP-1200 from his college days - and his entire record collection! I was flabbergasted. It was a total blast to flip through so many great albums that I grew up with - we have similar taste - and remember where and how I was introduced to each one. I remember so many. The second half of the tale was following Hypnotoad's threads on modding, then building your own phono stages. He started with a rodded Cambridge Audio unit, then designed two successive phono stages with help from this community. I got to select every cap and resistor for the AD797, built it myself, and the whole thing cost about $75. I went through the following realizations with each new phono amp [YMMV]: 1. "Wow, vinyl can sound really good!" 2. "Whoa, vinyl can sound as good as CD!" 3. Then, especially with older recordings - everything that's been re-issued on CD - "Holy *&%^@! vinyl can sound better than CD!" Now I'm on vinyl for 90% of my "critical" listening. I just enjoy the tactile connection one gets playing records over swiping through a smart phone menu or loading CD's. Its also been an adventure finding record stores and shopping for used vinyl. Everywhere I travel now, from home to east coast to west coast, I look for record stores and flip through the stacks to see what pops up.
but........ a couple years back I told a friend I wanted to try out vinyl again. Without prompting, he showed up one day and gave me his hot rodded Denon DP-1200 from his college days - and his entire record collection! I was flabbergasted. It was a total blast to flip through so many great albums that I grew up with - we have similar taste - and remember where and how I was introduced to each one. I remember so many. The second half of the tale was following Hypnotoad's threads on modding, then building your own phono stages. He started with a rodded Cambridge Audio unit, then designed two successive phono stages with help from this community. I got to select every cap and resistor for the AD797, built it myself, and the whole thing cost about $75. I went through the following realizations with each new phono amp [YMMV]: 1. "Wow, vinyl can sound really good!" 2. "Whoa, vinyl can sound as good as CD!" 3. Then, especially with older recordings - everything that's been re-issued on CD - "Holy *&%^@! vinyl can sound better than CD!" Now I'm on vinyl for 90% of my "critical" listening. I just enjoy the tactile connection one gets playing records over swiping through a smart phone menu or loading CD's. Its also been an adventure finding record stores and shopping for used vinyl. Everywhere I travel now, from home to east coast to west coast, I look for record stores and flip through the stacks to see what pops up.
USA Soccer
Well-Known Member
I have a SR-929 and put a MC cartridge and never looked back, to get the same sound you would have to drop $1500...
