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Many a returning Viet Nam veteran brought back a Sansui sound system they picked up on their way back during a stop over in Japan. If you owned a Sansui system back in the day you were one of a select few with bragging rights. Even today those Sansui systems are still very much a desired system.

Back in the 1970's, my father owned a Sansui Receiver 331 with the green back light. I remember that thing sounded fantastic and all of my friends thought I was so lucky to have a "cool father" for owning a Sansui. Although my father past away many years ago, I still have his Sansui 331 in 2023!

A video on Akai History would be very interesting and I cast a vote for a future video on Akai. Anyone else interested?

Our neighbor returned from Viet Nam with what seemed like every Sansui component made. That was the first time I saw the Sansui reverb highlighted in a video earlier this year. As a 15-year-old, his setup was the coolest thing I had ever seen. It was a note of nostalgia seeing the reverb recently in the store. Thank you

Bought a new Sansui G6000 receiver in NYC in 1979 for 360 bucks. it still works , and still sounds great. Sansui proved that all good things really do come to an end. I wish they would re-release the old stuff made new. It would be awesome. I just watched the video. running through all that gear was really fantastic. thanks for taking the time to make this. people that like music have no idea what they missed when this gear was out. It was a great time to be alive.

I loved my Sansui 5000 which lasted me 22 years of almost constant high power use. It had such a beautiful natural sound. I used it with my Akai GX-230D which, believe it or not I'm still using. I recorded almost 1,500 vinyl albums on it. There's just something about that pure, high end analogue sound that digital remasters can't duplicate. Surprisingly those tapes still sound great. I'm still using my analogue HK receiver I bought in 1991 when my Sansui died, and my top of the line Radio Shack speakers from 1972 and 1979. Five years ago I went to Best Buy to by a Sony TV that was on sale, and the sales rep wanted me to hear this super expensive sound system in their Magnolia Room. We selected a song I have in my collection so I'd know what it's supposed to sound like. I was prepared to be blown away, and I was. I was blown away by how bad it sounded. I could hear the sound of the plastic...yes plastic cabinets resonating, and the annoying boom in the muddy upper bass. I told him I couldn't even listen to the rest of the song, and told him since he lived near me to stop over and hear it on my old analogue system with acoustically sealed heavy wooden speaker cabinets, and he did. Once he heard it he asked how he was ever going to feel good about demoing that ten thousand dollar system again. As they say, they don't make them like they used to.

While in the Air Force I owed a QRX-9001. In the barracks this receiver would emit enough light to land a C5 in dense fog. While lighting up the room, I could also warm up leftovers. Great sounding machine. Looking at the used prices, wish I would have kept it.

My nearly 50 year old AU517 (and TU717) gets used nearly every day, it sounds fantastic. I've only had it for the last 8 to 10 years and it is one of my favorites.

It's really heartbreaking how such a legendary company went to shit. I"m going to upgrade my stereo next year and the AU series, (7700, 9500) and particularly the professional (9900, 11000) are first in the list with some Pioneer SA as contenders. it's a shame that those things went down after the 717. Fortunately they were built with such perfection that we'll be able to enjoy those pieces for many years to came. Thanks for the great video!

I purchased a 331 Sansui receiver along with speakers in 1975. I’m still using that system to this day. Best decision I’ve ever made

I worked in a couple of Hifi stores in the late 70's and I have to say that after hours of comparing the big 4 Japanese receiver lines through that time period I always preferred Yamaha. Looks only being a part of the equation. I recall that Yamaha was consistently the winner as far as musicality and sound. Yamaha was also the clear cut winner as far as reliability. They seldom showed up on the workbench. The company that gave Yamaha a run for the money music wise in our store was Tandberg. Those were fun days to be in Hifi sales.

Love a history lesson. What a shame what eventually happened to Sansui. I have my late fathers 441 receiver he purchased in the mid 70’s I believe. I was a young kid. Sounds good to this day.

My Dad bought his first Sansui in 1969 to replace The Fisher Model X 100b. Dad bought a very interesting Sansui 600L AM/FM and Short Wave Receiver, this receiver even had a integrated equalizer. In 1976 dad replaced that receiver with the AU5900 with Matching TU5900 tuner. We also purchase a Sansui front loading Tape deck the SC3110, other equipment paired with the AU5900 was a Thorens TD 124 that Dad bought in 1958 upgraded in 1964 with a grado labs wood tonearm, also a Sony Reel to Reel TC 377_2 , a pioneer equializer SG9500, and Sansui and Fisher speakers. To this day I have the AU5900, the TU5900, the Thorens td 124, and the pioneer equilizer in working order. I love the sound of that amplifer, my whole vinatage equipment is my pride and joy.

I have a Sansui 6060 receiver/amplifier with a wonderfully dampened analog station dial that my father bought 50 years ago. It works perfectly and looks like new, it still resides in the original, dedicated stereo cabinet with a Pioneer direct drive turntable and an Akai cassette deck. I use it almost daily to listen the radio or to our old records, I love the sound coming from the big speakers with the deep bass.

Sansui was the pinnacle of audio equipment of my teens and also very rare, expensive, and almost not obtainable due to international sanctions and embargoes. AKAI was also sought after, as was Kenwood and Pioneer. A history of AKAI would also be interesting.

Thank you for this video. I always wondered what became of Sansui. I had an AU-777 for many decades and when it was time to replace it the brand was nowhere to be found. I loved that amp.

Had a 9090 as a teenager. Got in a lot of trouble with that. It was very loud let’s say. I even had a funeral home director come over and asked me to turn the music down. They were trying to have a funeral. But I have a 7070 today and it’s going strong I love it. Four Sansui speakers. I bought a 6060 for my son, and another friend. I guess you could say I’m a Sansui guy. Thanks so much for all the information. It’s some stuff I’ve always wondered about.

Long ago I had a Sansui 1000A Tube Type Receiver, Technically rated at 28 watts per channel, that receiver could pump out sound all day long like much much more powerful receivers. Old but awesome.

I have a bunch of Sansui gear and use it often. Some belonged to my military dad that he bought over seas and other stuff I have acquired. Love the warm full spacious sound. Hope to keep it in the family another generation.

The Sansui 9090DB was the receiver that got me into HiFi back in 1976 when I was 12 years old. It belonged to my oldest brother who had it paired up with a pair of Technics SB7000A speakers.

I have a Sansui TU-9900 tuner and a Sansui AU-D7 amp that I picked up when I was on active duty in Korea in 1983. It still sounds great and has more power than I'll ever use. Sansui definitely was good stuff back in the early years.

Sansui was by far the most amazing stereo system when I was in high school in 1972. I still remember the first time a friend invited me over to experience his new Sansui system. Sitting between two speakers while listening to The Beatles' "I Am the Walrus," it was as if I could hear every instrument distinctly. Even quality headphones couldn't duplicate the stunning fidelity of the Sansui system.

Helped my friend pick out a stereo system at Circuit City in NC circa 1984. He ended up with a Sansui receiver powering some Micro Acoustics speakers (odd brand - not Boston Acoustics - but sounded good) and a Pioneer cassette deck with a Technics turntable and the ubiquitous Discwasher record cleaner. Even his wife liked it and didn't complain too much about his "hobby". Life was good. The AM/FM tuner on that Sansui was every bit the equal to my Pioneer.

I was stationed in Okinawa in 1977 - 1978. I bought a Sansui 9090db on the Marine Corp birthday on sale for 305.00. It's still marked on the box. I still use it and sounds great with my Altec Valencia 846b speakers. Thanks for an interesting education on Sansui!

Ouch. I followed Sansui's long, sad decline up until about 2000, then sort of forgot about it (and Kenwood, and Denon...it was getting all too depressing). Thanks for bringing me up to speed here, and definitely looking forward to more like this.

I own a Sansui 9090 that I bought for $100 maybe 15 years ago. Sounds incredible and whenever I get the itch to buy a new amp, I put that money into components instead and keep the 9090 as the core of my system. I've had it serviced a few times and one time the tech didn't do the best job. Wish I had some way to get it to Just Audio all the way from Chicago for some of your expert service work!

I had a Sansui 60w receiver when I was in college in the mid to late seventies. I didn't know anything about the technical aspects, I just know it sounded great and looked super cool with that blue dial! When I was a freshman, I went into another guys dorm room to listen to music and he had a super cool looking Sansui receiver, I was high as a kite and right then decided I'd get one myself, and I did!

I have always loved Sansui. They were easy to repair and they had a nice look. You could feel the quality in the sound they produced. Too bad I didn't keep any.

I’ve been a Pioneer guy my whole life. I have a Pioneer SX-750 that I’ve been using for almost 20 years, and absolutely love everything about it. That being said, I always worried that it would crap out, and I’d be without a vintage 70’s receiver while it was in the shop. Almost two years ago, my cousin passed away. He and I had a great connection through music, and talked about bands, songs, records and stereo equipment all the time. When he passed, his wife asked me to help sell all of his records and equipment, not knowing what to do with them. For helping, she said I could take whatever I wanted. He had a beautiful Sansui G3500 that cosmetically looked prestige, but wasn’t working. $300 in repairs later, I now have it running on a second stereo setup in my listening room. I have to say, for such a small unit, that sucker packs a punch, delivering great sound and plenty of volume. Visually, it’s stunning like most great equipment from the 70’s. I love every time I turn it on, thinking of my cousin as if he’s there listening to me. I can see why there’s such a fan base for Sansui.

My very first integrated amp was a 301i Sansui. I always liked that it sounded very soothing and musical, although it lacked in the analytical department. Which, on the other hand, made listening to mediocre productions much easier.

My family has had a Sansui QR-1500 since I was a child. My family raised me in SoCal listening to KMET and later KLOS. I remember when John Lennon passed and my mom, shocked by the news coming through that unit. My dad would listen to Chick Hearn on AM. Dad passed many years ago but Mom is still cruisin at 75 and every time I turn the power dial, I think of them both. I'm 52 now and that same 'ol receiver is now in my home with our same 'ol Audio Lab loudspeakers. Those 15 measly watts still sound so good.

Back in the 80’s & 90’s, my grandmother worked for the Hect Co. department stores as a sales person in their electronics department. This was back in the day when most of America purchased their stereos, televisions, appliances, etc. in department stores. Sansui, even back then, was positioned as a top-brand line…above brands like Fisher, Sanyo, Sony, RCA, etc. For many, hi-fi meant a “rack system” of plug-and-play components that included matching speakers. In hindsight, pretty much every system coming out of department stores from this era was probably made by the same Chinese or Taiwan factories…they just had different branding and faceplates. One thing I’d like to mention is that there was a clear brand that was really different that you could find in the department stores back then: Philips/Magnevox. Of course, they had that European difference to them, but beyond that, they were built to a higher state and had better performance. Those first CD players from Magnevox are still considered the best performing and sounding players ever…would’ve been great to see if the rest of Philips/Magnevox gear could have matched the Technics/Kenwood/Pioneer/Onkyo gear of that day. Great history lesson, Lenny!

I bought the Sansui G-4700 in about 1981...still have it and it sounds and looks awesome. Still has the emblems attached to the front.

I had a Sansui AUD-33 amplifier which included a Super Feedforward System for distortion reduction, which I bought in 1983. It was a wonderful amp which I kind of regret selling around 1999. I hope it's still in use somewhere.

Great video. My house is full of vintage Sansui from the golden age. Once I learned about the golden age of stereo just before the stereo wars I focused there and went through a bunch of Sansui gear. I grew up on Pioneer in the 70's but love vintage Sansui.

I am not a fan of Sansui speakers by any stretch but, I love their receivers/amps. I just got a Sansui Eight for a good deal and it has been such a joy to listen to for the past few weeks. I have a G-4700 that needs repair soon too.

I purchased a Samsung 771 receiver in the mid seventies while a Marine stationed in Okinawa. I also had Sansui speakers, I don't remember the model. That setup lasted for at least 15 years. I eventually replaced it with a Pioneer receiver. I sold it at some point in a yard sale. It was a little sad because it had served me well for so many years.

When I was working at an audio store in 1979-81, I used to deal with the Sansui representative all the and went many times to pick up special orders for customers. However, since I was a military dependent, I was able to purchase my own components through the military PX.

Wow....memories....I bought a Sansui 8080db receiver back in the late 70's from Crazy Eddie's in NY for $400 and that was considered a great deal. Loved that receiver. It could pump out volumes to any speaker at that time. Those were the good ol' days!!

In the late 80s, Sansui had some car audio amplifiers, too. Only they were made by Precision Power, Inc. (aka PPI). PPI was renowned for making some of the best sounding car audio amps, and the line they made for Sansui were excellent as well. It's a shame that some of these brands that were considered high-end back in the day have been whored out by conglomerates.

Speaking of the great company, I still have my 1975 direct drive Sansui turntable, it cost me 1/3rd of my initial stereo which was 3 months wages. Things are so cheap these days as well as poorer quality. I used it daily until about 17 years ago when I "got together" with someone who had pretty much NO interest in perfect music reproduction. Shortly after I bought it, well years, the only thing I did to it was replace the head shell and cartridge with a unit that cost more than the entire thing, and then spent 1/3rd the cost again on an audiophile needle. The electronics is good and the drive motor phenomenal lasting so long and with it's precision speed still there. Oh yeah I had to replace one of the speed adjusting pots (as I constantly used it) in the late 90's. Nice to hear the brand Nakamichi mentioned here, wish I had one of their decks, but back then they cost 1.5 times what my entire initial separate component stereo did! A little off topic here but great video man.

Another terrific video! I bought a Sansui 9090 receiver a few years ago, and the build quality is first-rate. The quality of the switches and the heaviness of the large volume knob gives one the confidence this receiver will be working long after I'm dead. The sound has so much depth and comes on strongly if you let it. I use it all the time and love it. Please keep creating these videos, and Thank You!!

I bought my G-7500 new in 1979, and it was incredible. About the 20 year point some solder joints needed re-done, and I got another 10 years out of it. It was incredible sounding, not to mention the memories that went with it. I won't part with it. I could have it gold-plated, but it really doesn't need it. It is beautiful as is.

Sansui until end of 70s made music machine, which were build lile tank, reliable... Wish to have Sansui Quadraphonic receiver 😊

I was in the Army, stationed in Germany in 1978. We were absolute experts on stereo equipment. JBL 100 speakers, Sansui 890db receiver, Teac tape deck and real to real tape.

Its a shame, I always thought it was some of the best equipment on the market, however a lot of the good companies have disappeared.

Since the mid 1970s, when I was buying my main stereo gear, and coincidentally got my start in radio as a disc jockey then engineer, I repeatedly saw two manufacturers names inside of every piece of equipment I ever opened up.. Toshiba and Matsushita. Unless I’m terribly mistaken, almost all Japanese audio equipment, during the 70s and early 80s, was built from components from those two companies, later including JVC (Japan Victor Corporation). I don’t remember ever needing to open up Sansui products from that era because they just worked so well for so long. This video makes me want to crack open a Sansui amplifier, tape deck or EQ and see who’s inside.

As an owner 3 9090DB's , I agree with the greatness of Sansui!!

Back in the day I had an AU-777, it was by far the best sound amp I've ever owned. I got it with two Sansui speakers too, can't remember what model they were, but the sound was just awesome. My neighbor played electric guitar, he loved to plug into my system, he'd have the walls shaking! I also had an Akai X300 10" reel to reel tape recorder, what a heavy beast that was. Man, I miss those days! Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Recently acquired a late 1980's AU X711 integrated, it was not cheap but what a nice unit. Part of the Alpha series which are considered as good as it gets. Also use a Sansui SR 525 turntable, fully manual direct drive.

When my uncle, a Viet Nam vet, passed away over 30 years ago, my family got his belongings. Included was his Sansui G-8000, that I still have.

That is really sad, A Tragic ending of a great company.

I have a popular 1970's solid-state amplifier that showed me you can definitely get the exact texture, harmonic content and warmth from transistors that we get from valves but most designs just don't do it. The Sansuis do. I am a guitarist and have a lot of tube amps and tube gear. Everyone claims to "emulate" valves but they never do not even close. My Sansui with a digital guitar modeler run through it sounds identical to valves. It's fizzy instead of raspy, zinging instead of buzzing, and the texture you hear in the treble is just unmistakable in terms of what truly is, *the valve sound.* Long story short, I went to college for the science of electrical=electronics engineering and have designed my own solid-state gear from the ground up. It's shockingly a very easy task to get the unmistakable valve sound from semiconductors but nobody bothers to do it!

In 1996 or 97, i happened to listen to a Sansui made CD player. It was for the first time I had listened to the CD sound. It sounded amazing. Even though I have heard systems costing much more, the sound of that Sansui CD player remains afresh in my mind.

When I started getting into hi-fi in the UK in the mid seventies, Sansui were highly respected - even their budget amps! I still have my turntable, a 222 mk2 that still looks classy 44 years later!

One local audio dealer lamented the fact that many Veterans returning from SE Asia were picking up cheaper hifi gear on their way back to the US upon their separation from Military Obligations and it definitely impacted the US Stereo Market. Sansui was one of the major brands leading the market in the very late 60’s and early 1970s. The rest is audio history.

I own a Sansui AU-G99X, purchased back in 1986 and it still sounds beautifully, paired with Bode 901 V6

You guys are remarkably affective at making me want to forage through my spare junk room (similar to a kitchen junk drawer) to get reacquainted with my retired gear. Most appreciated! New old found treasure.

I bought a Sansui receiver from a pawn shop just outside of Fort Hood in 1978. That thing kicked ass and beat anyone’s system in our barracks. Had it for about ten years and it stopped working. Took it to a few repair shops but no one could fix it. Kept the Sansui speakers for another 20 years after that. Great audio

In the late 70's I had an 8080DB... Loved it!!!

I worked in the A/V retail industry from 1984 to 2008, and a bit here and there until 2014. No place I worked at ever sold Sansui, but I always heard great things about the brand. Mostly from ex-GI's, who told me they bought their Sansui products from their base PX's. Those early 70's receivers looked awesome, especially those massive 9000 series.

I've still got Dad's Sansui 4000 that he bought at the PX in Vietnam back in 1970. I did have to get some capacitors replaced last year but, hey, what other equipment lasts 50+ years and can still be fixed?! I still love the sound in the man cave, superior to my more modern receiver in the living room. I grew up with this unit and it just seems like an old familiar friend. :-)

As a US Army guy I was stationed at Reese, in Augsburg Germany from 1977 to 1979. The PX had every conceivable thing of stereo gear. Sansui had a place there. I bought by Spec and owned a Sunsui amp and tuner, and several other Sansui pieces. Sansui was best by specs and price. All of my Sansui is gone now. I am now interested in top quality tube amps and tuners at the best price. Somersworth, NH

I have an 881 for more than 50 trouble free years and still love it. I enjoyed you sharing your knowledge. Thank You.

My 1982 Sansui PL-51 programmable, direct drive, linear tracking turntable still has pride of place atop my component system.

In 1974, I was a sophomore in High School. I worked a summer job to but a Pioneer Turntable and a Sansui receiver. I played the crap out of it! When I went into the Air Force, I gave to my father, who a.so loved music and played the crap out of it . Dad passed away in 2016, and I got my receiver back. It is now in my music room next to my Marshall amp and it still continues to kick butt!

I was the proud owner of a Sansui g-9000 receiver that I bought in Japan in 1978 while I was stationed there in the Marine Corps. That was the best sounding and most powerful amplifier I'd ever heard. I paid pretty big bucks for it-- over $1,000. But it was selling in the States for much much more than that. Then one time during a move it disappeared off the truck. My stuff was like 2 weeks late. Finally they told me they tracked it down still on the truck sitting on the side of Interstate 40. The driver just quit, grabbed my stereo (but did lock up the truck) and then just drove away.

While serving with the 101st Airborne in Vietnam in 1968, I purchased and had shipped home, my SANSUI 3000A Receiver, pair of SANSUI 100w Speakers, TEAC A1200 Reel-to-Reel tape machine and a DUAL 1009SK Turntable....I gave all of this to a girlfriend who was leaving San Francisco to go to Columbia University for graduate school, and replaced with LUXMAN components in 1988. Loved the 1968 decisions I made, it was a great system.

I was lucky enough and had a plan to go to Japan when I was in the Air Force. I was stationed there in 1975 and 1976 well you know how it goes. I intended to go to Japan to enjoy the HIFi which I sure did. The Yen exchange rate was 400 to 1 American Dollar!! Yes with that exchange rate I could buy lots of ear candy for next to nothing. I didn't fully appreciate what I was seeing with the HIFI but I did get a whale of a bite of it. I had probably 200 guys in a multi story apt. style barracks and yes everyone and I mean everyone had a stereo system. You could see it all and probably every brand. Good times and I miss that period a great deal, what an experience.

Sansui my all time favourite audio brand. Love my never-selling AU-d11/TU-s9, AU-8500 & G-8000. Looking for some 8080/9090, AU-9900. Great video!

Bought an AU-417 in 1971, still going strong today. Listening to this utube channel with it and a pair of Sansui speakers.

I was there in the 70s and it was heady times for HiFi. This video brought those old feelings back to me. Thanks.

In 1978 I drove from NW PA to Crazy Eddies in NYC to buy my Sansui receiver. Fantastic piece of equipment. Worked flawlessly and sounded great.

I bought a Sausui S-X1200 in July 1989. I still have it and it still works. It had a processor switch and a Tape Mon 2 - so it could accommodate 2 equalizers using 2 separate inputs.

In 1973 I owned a SANSUI 6500. Bought it in Germany while I was in the Army. Paired with a set of rectilinear floor speakers. The most awesome stereo I ever owned

I came to collecting hi-fi late. I was 10 at the beginning of the Stereo Wars. My uncle had a Superscope system and in ‘74 my cousin came home from college with a Pioneer SX-737 system. In later years he told me that he could’ve gotten a 1010 but, he wouldn’t have been able to get speakers or a turntable. When I was 15-17 mom shopped at the DAV often. They had a junk pile of broken audio gear. Gear we now lovingly refer to as vintage audio. There were receivers, turntables, 8 tracks, cassettes and amps. All broken and in need of some tlc. I once asked my mom if she would get me one. I’d had a burning desire to have one since I saw my cousins’. She said, “Does it work and if it doesn’t, who’s going to fix it? ” I plugged it in and it didn’t work. I put it back. Turns out at the time here in St. Louis there was an audio/video repair shop on almost every corner. Ok, not every corner, but you get the idea. My God, if I’d known then what I know now I would’ve bought the whole pile and saved them. I don’t know what else there was, but I do know that the one I picked was a Pioneer SX-434 which I did eventually get. We have just 2 audio repair shops left in town. I’ve got them repairing a Sansui 3000a and 2000x for me. I hope to come visit your shop in the near future. Thanks for all the great videos!

I remember lusting after one of those Sansui receivers featuring the two large center dials and four panel meters back when I was a freshman in high-school. Which would have been in 1976. Back then, the most lusted after brand of stereo receiver, however, was Marantz. Which, unsurprisingly, was also the most expensive.

Thanks for digging into this, I didn't know any of this. Sansui receivers were on the top of my dream receiver wish list when I was growing up in the 70s. I always wondered what the heck happened to this great company. Thanks for this video, great job!

My father was a real fan of the brand and he had a complete Sansui hifi system with big amp, a weird cassette deck with no door, a real-to-real tape deck, DSP and everything. Before that, he had a great integrated amp/tuner a bit like the one on the thumbnail. I remember I was amazed by the number of inputs and outputs, tape monitor switches and routing features. Left and right channels had their own tone controls on coaxial knobs and I remember that the potentiometers were super smooth and felt like there was some damping. It was also super heavy. You bring back good memories 🙂

Our first stereo, in 1968, included a Sansui AU555 and TU555 with cool teak sleeves (very 60s). We still have them stored in the basement.

Bought my first stereo when I was 18, an AU-D9 amp togheter with the TU-S9 Tuner. Year later a SE-9 eq. I'm almost 60 now and still have the set............still working fine. The only thing that was done, was recapping the amp in 2022 due to a lack of punch. My dad has a AU-7700/ TU7700 set, amp is also reccapped and is playing every day. Build like a tank.

I just picked up an 8080DB and absolutely love it! Matches well with my vintage Frazier speakers. I have several pair of Sansui speakers (200, 1500, 2000) that I have reconditioned but have not listened to yet.

In 1979 I purchased a Sansui G-8000 Stereo Receiver as my High School Graduation Gift, it was awesome. I used it until the early 1990s.

Wow, great video. I always wondered what happened to Sansui. You did a great research and brought back memories. I bought my first stereo system, a 100 watt Sansui stereo rack system, back in early 80’s in Okinawa, Japan when I was in the Navy and had resupply stop/visit there. The turntable was direct drive with linear tracking arm that can select specific track via the track buttons. That was hi tech back then. The system was all black with this cool aqua colored lighting that looked awesome at night. I also bought their VHS VCR when I was getting into home theater. This was when they still make it Japan.

I have two vintage receivers that I don't see me ever parting with. One is a 1969 Sansui 4000. Love the sound. I was fortunate enough to pick it up a few years ago locally.

In the mid 1980's I worked at Sansui in Lyndhurst NJ. I was the receiving manager/bench tech during this time. To this day I still own my AU-G90x spl800 d590 cassette players an a few others. I resigned and left just a few months before the east coast office closed. In a nutshell seeing our returns I would truly believe that venturing low end was one of our downfalls. We also had issues with somewhat questionable retailers such as crazy eddy. as a receiving manager I would inspect the returns and direct them to the proper technicians for repair. There were many occasions where our units were adulterated by our partners and sold under the guise of our name. As hard as we could try to stop them it just seemed a losing battle. Adding to that fact was internal US employment issues within the company. Even so with these issue I was and still am honored to have worked with a great group of people, Including but not limited to Mister Omikawa San, Mister Ito, Mister Soda, and Mister Matsumoto. I have always believed that Sansui like the Phoenix will once again rise from the ashes. You just can't match the level and commitment they put into their products.

Bought a Sansui AU-G77X integrated amp in the 80's and still use it today in my analog listening room. 110 watts / channel still sounding good.

About 74 I was in the Philippines.. got lost at 3am at there was a Sansui sign at the base and walked towards it and got back to base ..Been a fan ever since.

I bought a Sansui 661 receiver at a tag sale about 20 years ago for a dollar. It's what I'm listening to this video with. A dollar well spent.

I purchased a Marantz 22 from the exchange in Vietnam '70. Marantz was originally manufactured in Long Island and had a stellar reputation. Unbeknownst to me they were bought out by a Japanese concern which used inferior components. I soon had one problem after another with individual component failure. Finally the crystal filters in the tuner failed but the amplifier was still working. Finally tossed it and bought a wonderful Vietnam era Pioneer amp/receiver from a Salvation Army thrift store. Still have it today.

I bought a Sansui 8080db in 1977 while stationed in Korea. Brought it back to Fort Ord. Rocked the Casba for real

I bought a lot of Sansui receivers when I was in Vietnam, Hong Kong and in the Akihabara district 1968-1972. Later, I was part owner of a Lafayette Electronics store and we sold Sansui hi-fi stuff. The receivers were every bit as good, if not better, than many other well known Japanese brands. Sometime in the 90's I bought a few Sansui TVs. Boy, does your video bring back memories!😊

My dad bought a Sansui receiver and speakers on his way home from Vietnam. The 5050 receiver stopped working years ago but 53 years later, the speakers are still kicking.

Great vid, very well made and informative! I still own a pair of Sansui SP-Z7's that I bought in Germany when I was stationed there back in 1982, they are not in mint condition, but they are in very good condition and they still sound great. I remember going to disco parties before I went into the Army, and this one DJ had a 4 set of Sansui's, I believe there were SP X8000 or 9000, man they were blowing the place up! The Stereo Wars was a great period, definetely a great time for audio, because even the lesser known brands were also putting out some serious equipment for you to have. Now days, it's so sad to go to places that sell audio, because they really don't have anything. Most is focus on home theater with some decent offerings but really nothing like it used to be. That is why I kept my old school stereo equipment, which I still listen to and try to maintain in decent operation, they still sound great.

absolutely feel ya on that 70's era...used to love Penthouse and Playboy magazine not just for the girls but for their hi fi advertisements....also loved 60's and 70's National Geographic magazine for their American car advertisements...absolutely beautiful glossy photography for that time...better than digital imho

Still have my AU-517 and TU-717. Bought while in college in the 1970's. Look great and still sound great.

We owned a few Sansui receiver amps and speakers when I was growing up. You used to be able to find them cheap at thrift stores. They were huge, heavy, and sounded great. I really took them for granted back then.

1992: my trusty 80w/ch Sansui solid-state integrated amp and I powered up a set of 3-way speakers that I had built. That baby could put out zero audible distortion @ max volume. I turned the speakers to point out my dorm room window. My friends and I were on the opposite side of the dorm building playing frisbee football listening to AC/DC’s Back In Black on infinite repeat while RA and cops were pounding on my door. I got 2 years of academic suspension for my crime against humanity. Will never forget that simple but tank-like integrated amp!

When I first got to Germany, everybody had killer stereo's. I had a QRX-1500 and then got the QRX-5500 and I still have my 4 Sansui SP-2500(?)