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I have some old audio gear that hopefully some of you know about. My main curiosity is of an old Sansui reciever-reverb amp-turntable-speaker system my dad had for a long time and that I've had for awhile now. The reciever is a Sansui 5000X solid state am/fm amp with the matching reverb amp that goes with it. The turntable is also matching. The speakers are Sansui SP-2000 4way (6 speakers in each box). My dads buddy bought it whil he was over in Vietnam during the war. I've been told it is from the late 1960s but I dont know for sure. I do know that it still rocks and is still clear and crisp and LOUD! Is this anything special or just some old Sansui stuff?Sean
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I have a pair of SP-2000 speakers and like them. They are very well built with Alnico drivers. The base does not go very low but the base it has is good quality. Wall reinforment will help but you wont need it if you listening room is in a panneled, concrete bunker like mine is!best wishes,
Dave
....vintage system. Sound like you have some nice pieces. I would thoroughly clean all of the controls and connections with deoxit and replace the 'throw-in' interconnects and speaker wires, if you haven't already; wires do make a big difference.
Those are good, generally speaking. A lot of those things came back from the far East just as you describe. I think I had a 5000 at one time it was a good receiver. Those "Japanese Jukebox" speakers were very popular and all the major Japanese brands seemed to make them. It was as if they had a contest to see how many and how many different kinds of drivers they could stuff in a box. Some of them sounded good, some not so much. The general consensus is that Sansui and Pioneer were the most successful of the Japanese speakers.--Matt
"You know why is that?"
Read on another site that Sansui was JBL's far east distributor, 420, so they had access to some toneful drivers. Got a nice pair of SP-1500s last summer, bypassed the stock xover, & wired the mids-n-tweets in parallel to their stock xover caps proper instead. Morphed in kabuki-countenaced JBL monitors! Were it not for those recently-restored Advents, would be rockin' them 1500s! Gave 'em to a bud instead, whose JVC speakers were startin' to look-n-sound ratty! Bein' that he's also a Sopranos fanatic, 'twas fortunate them 1500s sound as good as they look; what with their favourable WAF! As for your 5000A receiver, 420, Allied Ratio Shaq's 1971 wish book called it "Sansui's Finest..230-Watt Stereo FM-AM Receiver"! Retailed for 4 bills! Relish thy Sansui legacy caretakership, 420!!!
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