Indeed Pete, and it appears we're not the only ones who just cant let these go http://forums.naimaudio.com/topic/th...51091079905084 if a piece of kit can motivate you to start a thread entitled 'The Most Loved Hifi in the world' then enough said. His positive and heartfelt appraisal is spot on - mine may well remain with me for many more years to come
Keep the speakers, and upgrade your amps.
Mana Acoustics Racks / Bright Star IsoNodes Decoupling >> Allo DigiOne Player >> Pedja Rogic's Audial Model S DAC + Pioneer PL-71 turntable / Vista Audio phono-1 mk II / Denon PCL-5 headshell / Reson Reca >> LFD DLS >> LFD PA2M (SE) >> Royd RR3s.
Yep, been thinking that from the off (keep the speakers that is, the Sansui AU 919 is stunning ! the best amp I've heard and my last if I can help it). The Freedoms were great from the start but upgrades to my Techie, amp, cartridge etc just translate through the 752 Freedoms beautifully.
I have two biggish upgrades in the pipeline being the Paul Hynes external psu with triple stage regs and a re-cap of my Sansui AU 919. The 919 has had everything done apart from that and sounds awesome as is so I think these two key upgrades will be the same as that speaker upgrade I'm after without the speaker upgrade
I took a look inside your amp, huge power supply! Interesting 'double cap' cans too, which caps are you looking at to replace them?
Mana Acoustics Racks / Bright Star IsoNodes Decoupling >> Allo DigiOne Player >> Pedja Rogic's Audial Model S DAC + Pioneer PL-71 turntable / Vista Audio phono-1 mk II / Denon PCL-5 headshell / Reson Reca >> LFD DLS >> LFD PA2M (SE) >> Royd RR3s.
Hi Neil, Been mad busy and out much of the time.
I wont be doing the work as I wouldnt have a clue what I was doing The guy I bought the amp from and who overhauled it is the expert. I've asked him for a quote to look at a future re-cap. I know it's a big job as the original big caps are no longer available. I'd naturally want high quality equivalents or better.
He's also a member on Audiokarma where there are members who know Sansui 919's and associated work like the back of their hand.
Truth is everything else was done in the overhaul so a re-cap makes sense. These are amps are nearly 40 years old now.