Yeah but you get a 406mm WOFER - how could you resist???Originally Posted by Beobloke
This gave me a much needed chuckle on a Monday morning.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SANSUI-sp-8100...item33659ae0be
£799??!!
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Yeah but you get a 406mm WOFER - how could you resist???This gave me a much needed chuckle on a Monday morning.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SANSUI-sp-8100...item33659ae0be
£799??!!
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Overpriced they may be (who knows they may be an undiscovered gem?), but to me they actually look like pretty good speakers, and would likely be a riot on the end of a nice valve amp
Sansui made some quality kit during that era.
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Buy em and fun out Marco
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As with all things Hi-Fi, you really need to hear them before splashing the cash. Unless they are very cheap.
Over the years I have heard many large and impressive looking Japanese speakers with massive drivers and horn tweeters, ribbon drivers and all manner of goodies, only to be bitterly disappointed by lack lustre sound.
Not always. I have heard a couple of good uns' but the majority have been on the naff side and made me wonder, how could they have got it so wrong with all that wonderful ironmongery bolted on the outside...
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To me they look like an uninspired box with a load of cheap drive units stuck into it, but each to their own!
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Lol - indeed. Different strokes, and all that.... Do bear in mind though that I love things like Wharfedale E70s (on the end of a nice valve amp)!
However, I'm not quite sure that what you're implying was where Sansui were 'at' in those days (although I do take Dave's point on board). Had it been 'Matsui', instead, then we'd be in total agreement!
I guess we'll never know if the Sansuis are shite or not, as I suspect no-one here is going to shell out £800 to find out
Why not put a cheeky offer in and move the decimal point to a more 'realistic' place?
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Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
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these any good for £20
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...#ht_520wt_1139
local to me you see, thought they might be worth a punt?
cant find much on google ... apart from a lot about trans sexuals???
might be up your alley (as it were) marco
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The bass units look a bit like old Elac units, but almost certainly, won't be.these any good for £20
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...#ht_520wt_1139
local to me you see, thought they might be worth a punt?
cant find much on google ... apart from a lot about trans sexuals???
might be up your alley (as it were) marco
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Grrrrr... was just in the process of "Buying It Now" when some other sod beat me to it! I hope it wasn't any of you lot...
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