NEW WINE IN THE RACK - ALPHA Sansui AU-α 707 DR
I managed to bag this new minty mega rare 230/240v UK Beauty.
I'm led to believe there where only ever three UK / Euro spec models imported into the UK.
Built like a tank, 22.5kg's It is gorgeous in the flesh and the sound is absolutely pure hi-fidelity to my ears - It does not impart anything of itself, cover or gloss over other than laying everything in the recording / music bare, and I mean everything -
Detailed, neutral, every nuance, micro macro detail revealed - warts n all, seperation of all the recorded parts, textures, timbres, vocals, horns, drums, all instruments sound real !
Power delivery is effortless - dual mono construction, 130 wpc @ 8 ohms and damping factor of 150 :eek:
To coin an old cliche - Re-discovering the most familar of albums............
I've heard things I never knew where there in terms of how a vocalist tails of a phrase and more startling is the way some rythms start or pause, as I say different to what I've heard a thousand times before - this thing reveals how it really was laid down and it's a shock first time it happens :eek:
Cant get enough it, all I'm doing and want to do is get the set fired up and play tunes - which has to be testimony itself :D and I take my hat off to Sansui !
To say I'm chuffed to bits to have bagged this beauty / beast is an understatement.
http://www.audioscope.net/sansui-aua...dr-p-1660.html
http://www.hifi-studio.de/hifi-klass...alpha707DR.htm
https://www.whathifi.com/forum/hi-fi...7-dr-amplifier
https://sansui1944.websitetoolbox.co...-707dr-1062087
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