Show Me Your Sansui!
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It's a Sansui. It'll be great!
My second AU-555A arrived yesterday. I was initially concerned when it arrived in a flimsy Amazon box with a single layer of cheap bubble wrap around it. Happy to report, however, that all is well. Been listening to it all day. It's bone stock and sounds fantastic through these little PSB Alpha B1s. Maybe we'll do a full leestereo on one and leave the other as is. While the 555A provided smooth tunes all day, I think I found the positive rail voltage thieves on the Eight. Looks like R351 and TR351 in the F-1235 tone board need to go and I may as well do the whole thing while I'm at it.
Not my Sansui, but my local electronics recycling place has this absolutely MASSIVE QRX-7500 on the shelf. What a specimen! I've little interest in opening the quad door (or their asking price), but man it's tempting just for the novelty. He tests everything and it works. Note the diminutive Pioneer SX-650 in its shadow.
Original owner! There should be a special designation for original Sansui owners here. RESPECT.
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Your hometown is a gem. Record shops, repair techs and vintage electronics stores. Places like that will be where we can find life after the AI/Virtual Technocracy takes over. Records sales crossed 1 billion US dollars last year. There's still hope for the real world.
Plimpington2
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Monsters all!
Love it!
@Plimpington2 in here rolling out the heavy artillery... hope everyone has their seismic reinforcements properly installed.
@JimEGR, interesting to Note the customization of the cassette deck (SC-2002) and EQ (SE-7), such that aluminum vertical banding was added to the faceplates, and some knobs/levers changed out, to more closely match the definition and professional series equipment beneath it. Not such a big fan of the vivid green lighting on these, but can appreciate the effort at making the two top components more closely resemble those beneath.
That work on the cassette and equalizer was brilliant. Even the green lights that would typically annoy me for not being factory look good. I don't normally respect mod's like this, to perfectly good equipment, but this all looks like to could have come straight out of the Sansui lab!
I can understand wanting to match the two newer components to the tuner and amps, since there were no equivalent products offered in the definition or professional series. I've lamented the dearth of accessory components available to complement those two product lines before, which were otherwise superlative offerings. Have to assume there just wasn't an adequate market for doing so at the time.
I might make one other small beef with the choice of EQ slider knobs: being there is no center point mark on them, they would be slightly imprecise relative to the index marks on the face plate. But that's a small quibble, and more aesthetic than functional.
I might make one other small beef with the choice of EQ slider knobs: being there is no center point mark on them, they would be slightly imprecise relative to the index marks on the face plate. But that's a small quibble, and more aesthetic than functional.
I just finished restoring this AU-717 according to Leestereo's tutorial. Luckily, this amp was mostly unmolested, except the previous owner did drill holes into the sections of the volume pot. Fortunately, it's still working perfectly. I just covered the holes up with a bit of grosgrain tape I had for another restoration.
Looks fantastic. Enjoy!
Thank you!
Thanks. As far as amplifiers are concerned, it's a relatively easy amp to work on. Just take your time and take lots of pictures. I'm bad at doing both of those recommendations, but it still turned out alright.