"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"dave weil" wrote in message
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:08:33 GMT, (Stewart
Pinkerton) wrote:
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:46:51 -0500, dave weil
wrote:
Yes, I thought that Lionel was kidding when apparently he wasn't.
He was half right, too. Sansui did indeed make some nice amps in the
'70s, but of course they were push-pull solid state, not SETs.
Agreed. They also had a nice preamp in the late 80s. I owned one for a
while. I don't recall the number. It was the last gasp of a decent
company, as far as I know.
Some place along the line Sansui stopped being such a decent company. They
disemboweled themselves with a range of receivers that had very a
short-lived, critical, hard-to-replace part.
I wonder what made the change in Sansui from being a decent company? I've
still got a Model 2000 tuner/amp. Can't remember the year I bought it but I
was impressed that it came with a very comprehensive service manual (I've
never yet needed it yet) performs faultlessly even all the original panel
lamps still work. An Ok sounding & well built unit :-)
Mike