Sansui brand name

[BOB URZ]

Phil Allison wrote:

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**What worse things have you seen them do, Phil?


** The alleged "crime" of using power diodes in parallel is very
minor - if a crime at all.

**It's just characteristic of the company. Which was my point in the first
place.


My remark must be seen in that light.

**I did.


The plastic chassis with inadequate heatsinks every semi over
run
to the wall amps they released in the 80s constitutes a hanging offense
IMO.

**Wasn't that part of my original complaint about Sansui amps? Pastic
chassis parts and stupid output device mounting systems (amongst a whole
host of other stuff). It's what I said in the first place. Sansui was at
the
forefront of churning out crappy hi fi, during the late 70s and 80s. That
was when they destroyed their reputation.

** You likely saw the offending Sansui models way earlier than other
techs like myself and Bob.

Late 70s release translates into early 80s in the experience of techs
who are not doing warranty.

............. Phil

Yea, at some point in time Sansui went from quality products to
price point lower end stuff. Some of the early stuff was very well
put together. Somewhere in my storage, i have a black faced
Sansui tube integrated amp. Probably a rather rare dog these days.
Somewhere at the end of the quad era and the mega sized units,
(Remember those HUGE old high power units that were too big
to fit in most stereo cabinets?) Sansui started putting out the price point more
marginal stuff. Things change. That stuff was NOT the
older quality stuff i remember. I used to see a lot of stuff for 220 to
110 volt conversion from service men bringing the stuff back from
overseas SE asia. It used to be a lot cheaper to buy it over there, and
a lot of them brought stuff back. Cannot say i cared for their older speakers a
lot, but they did have some interesting wooden carved grills on them. I seemed
to remember some company called "Polly Peck" or such that owned them at one
time, but my memory of history
is a little fuzzy on that.

http://www-edocs.unimaas.nl/files/nib98002.pdf


Here is a few Sansui links:

http://www.sansui.us/HistProd.htm
http://www.sansui.us/HistProd.htm
http://www.aloha-audio.com/library/tinyhistory2.html
http://www.audioreview.com/Receivers/Sansui+QRX-9001/PRD_118788_1593crx.aspx
http://www.stereomanuals.com/70audio.htm

Still, not a complete unbiased history. But it fills in
a few blanks. It makes me want to puke when i see the Sansui
name on some POS EL cheapo TV or VCR.

BOB



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