Thiel Owners

i grew up in a pattern shop...the mold for the Prestone flush and fill was our baby...anything cast is part black magic...hats off to you Tom

tomic601

Good to see you again.   Happy Listening!

Another +vote for the Ken Fritz documentary.  He certainly has a passion for the high-end system and vinyl.

Happy Listening!

I feel like a 9 year old in a room full of adults...

My earlier post:
I am new to this mania, moving from a Pioneer 1050 SX to something more fun. Not ready for the cost of hifi...
I have some Theil CS 1.5 speakers that I want to power up. They will be in a small home office 12x15, but may move them into the garage/shop 24x24 but crowded as I spend a lot of time there woodworking and kicking back.
Considering cost,,,, for an amp I am looking at a Classe CAP 101 and a Bryston 2B with a 0.5B preamp.
I will use a Bluesound Node and stream Qobuz or my CD collection flac files from a hard drive.

Question - I am kinda hung up on getting an old Sansui Professional Integrated cause they are just cool and what I wanted back then. The AU9900 is 90 wpc at 8 ohm, 120 wpc at 4 ohm. Assuming the amp is re-capped, any thoughts on how they would match up with the 1.5s?

Thanks.

   As good as the Sansui AU9900 may have been / was in 1975, amplifier technology is now so many generations of sound quality beyond that as to make it likely unlistenable compared with a Classe CAP-101 or similar.  How is the Sansui much different or any more 'fun' from the Pioneer SX-1050 that's only a couple years newer design?
   I owned and/or listened at length to similar Pioneer and Sansui amps of the era.  I bought an Advent 300 receiver to replace the Pioneer and, aside from power output, it blew them both away in every sonic metric.  
   Old top-of-the-line Japanese electronics are usually really well-built and generally reliable, but today - in most cases - they are better to look at than listen to.  Their best FM tuners excepted, with some new parts...