Cherrystone wrote:

Never had a problem with the amp...other than blowing out two sets of speakers.
Finally I built a monster pair that could withstand the volume.
I had two other sets of speaker hooked up to it also, never a problem pushing out max volume.

When I bought those they cost me 5 weeks gross wages at the time. The Marantz I got now....eh, it's ok, but it's not that Sansui.

I'm curious. Were you in the military? When I was in the business a **lot** of military guys came back from overseas with some really nice Sansui stuff that they had snagged for pennies on the dollar. The biggest problem I had (other than repairing it for them) was trying to finagle warranty coverage here in the states (technically they were not covered - but we got very creative - as it were - cough - cough).

Lohkee wrote:

I'm curious. Were you in the military? When I was in the business a **lot** of military guys came back from overseas with some really nice Sansui stuff that they had snagged for pennies on the dollar. The biggest problem I had (other than repairing it for them) was trying to finagle warranty coverage here in the states (technically they were not covered - but we got very creative - as it were - cough - cough).

Yes, but I bought it in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Lot of my buddies back in those days came back with a fuckton of electronics from Japan, or were mailing stuff back to friends and family. It was easy to do back when.

While the named changed a bit back, it's still a stereo store all these years later.

Cherrystone wrote:
While the named changed a bit back, it's still a stereo store all these years later.

I'm almost afraid to ask why you let it go.

Marantz is nice if you have a forklift to move the damn things (at least the ones I worked on). They weighed a freaking tonne!

Trivia - seems a lot of the Sansui stuff I worked on was snagged by soldiers via the Philippines.

Lohkee wrote:
I'm almost afraid to ask why you let it go.

Marantz is nice if you have a forklift to move the damn things (at least the ones I worked on). They weighed a freaking tonne!

Trivia - seems a lot of the Sansui stuff I worked on was snagged by soldiers via the Philippines.

Wanted a audio-video amp to handle the new DVD's & pro dolby logic. Guy offered me $350- for both, which was a tad more than half I paid for them, and after using for 26 yrs.

That means it cost me a net $1.13 a month for use. Hell yes.

Chris Rifkin wrote:
I just don't feel the need to always have the newest toy...
Sometimes the decision to replace is made by itself(I abuse the fuck out of my laptops and phones)and have no choice

Wait! I'm old and maybe confused, but aren't you the dude that cooks dinner on the engine in his 18 wheeler? No wonder nothing lasts.