How come no one talks of sansui?

NOw you're taking me back to my very first (what I thought was hi end) system consisting of the old Sansui 9090 110watts/channel stereo amp driving my JBL 166 speakers with a front end consisting of a Thorens TD126 and Ortofon cartridge. Wow! I was in heaven until...someone introduced me to separates.

I bought that amp in 1976 and my sister is still using the same amp today with no problems except for one blown channel which was easily fixed. Yes, they did build them like tanks then didn't they?

I owned the Sansui AU919. That was the top of the heap -- even had special oval capacitors, and compartments for the different sections. You never hardly saw one of these -- mostly the AU717. There was also an AU818 - kind of inbetween. I wish I never sold it. It was in absolute mint condition and weighed about 55 pds.

All those old receivers from the 70's are great to have in some system in the house. The controls - massive power - meters - great tuners - Marantz - Pioneer - Harman Kardon - Sasui - I love going to old shops around the country and seeing them - it brings back times when I was getting started in this hobby. I still have an old Mcintosh integrated and a Harman Kardon in my workshop from the 71 - 73 era.

My sansui 9090db is on its way. A friend of mine brought one back from the army px years ago and boy do I miss that warm sound. I am thinking of running the amp of the 9090db off of my adcom preamp, any thoughts on this idea ? current system is adcom preamp and hafler dh200 amp. Thanks

I'm setting here listening to a TU-417 and AU-417 right now. It sounds almost as good as my Audio Research. And it's black rackmount. Life is good.......