The receiver 'Power Wars'

[stuwee]

I have owned a few of the top monster receivers in the past, but with no Laatsch around to work on them I sold em all. I had the top Pioneer Dog, the second in the Sansui Lineage and the top Fisher and Hitachi and Toshiba receivers, not all at the same time though.

Nowadays I just stick to my power amps from Pioneer, Carver, Onkyo, Sony, Denon, Nikko, DBX and Harman Kardon.

This musta been you then?

 

[Web Police]

No, but I had that magazine way back then.

 

[Elite-ist]

Web: I would have a hard time letting go of those receivers you had. But, if they required repairs that would somewhat cause me to reconsider.

This is my Pioneer SX-1050. I bought it four years ago from the original owner, an older Japanese gentleman. I bought this receiver and the rest of his 70's system as a package deal. He was a professional cellist for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. He and his wife had moved to a smaller residence and they didn't have the room to accomodate it all. I later found out this year that the extra reel tapes he gave me had recordings of his playing the cello. Quite touching!

Nando.

 

[laatsch55]

Beautiful Nando.

 

[Web Police]

Nando, actually none of them had any problems, I just like separates better than receivers. I sold the Pioneer SX-1980 and Sansui G-22000 to a friend of mine and he still owns them to this day. I sold the Pioneer about 20 years ago, and the Sansui probably 12 or 13 years ago.

I also owned and sold a Hitachi SR-2004, a Toshiba SA-7150, A Pioneer SX-1250, a SX-5590 and a Fisher RS-1080. Most of those I owned and sold in the early 1990's when they were considered antiquated boat anchors. I had bought them in the classified ads and resold them at a HI-FI consignment shop for profit of course. I don't remember all the prices, but I bought a three year old Pioneer SX-1980 for $300 and the Sansui G-22000 set me back $175. Most of them were bought for about $1 a watt in them days. lol At one time I owned the whole Pioneer SX Series from the SX-450 through the SX-1250. Before I sold them I formed two stacks and plugged them all in a took a few pictures, but of course I have no idea where the images went.

 

[Elite-ist]

Well Web, you at least had the satisfaction of owning them. Isn't that amazing to think how unpopular those behemoths were compared to the new gear available, then. We've all seen your collection, and there's plenty of the good stuff left from what I've seen of your pictures.

Nando.

 

[stuwee]

Collection? He's a goddamn hoarder, that's what he is

If we don't hear from him for a couple of days, we'll send FF up there and he'll find his legs sticking out from a toppled pile of tape decks

 

[Elite-ist]

Please don't mention the "H" word around here. It's a very sensitive issue, and maybe a tender issue around my household. But, Mr. Web has pared down his collection and can you imagine had there been a forum like this back then, he would have had a bunch of us pawing each other to buy his monster receivers.

Nando.

 

[laatsch55]

No doubt Nando!!!!!!

 

[Elite-ist]

Similar to my Pioneer SX-1050, the SX-D7000 is rated at 120 watts per channel, but with negligible distortion figures. I'm using it for now, before I put the Elite M-90 back in place. I had the chance in the past few months to rotate the SX-1050 and SX-D7000 in and out of the rack.

Nando.

 

[jbeckva]

The only "monster" I had that was close was the Sansui 9900Z @ around 160 per channel.

Kind of a weird "concept" receiver right around the end of the monster wars. It had several "differences" when everyone got on the digital bandwagon. Like a so-called digital volume control, which actually drove a motor inside, which in turn drove an internal volume pot. It had a spectrum analyzer too - but just for looks. And the weirdest thing was a digital tuner - the knob acted and felt like the 'Sui's of old, but the dial was actually a strip of LED's, and an annoying "beep" sound every time you changed the station.

It was still built halfway-decent tho, and had liquid cooling on the output trannies.

 

[Web Police]

Well Web, you at least had the satisfaction of owning them. Isn't that amazing to think how unpopular those behemoths were compared to the new gear available, then. We've all seen your collection, and there's plenty of the good stuff left from what I've seen of your pictures.

Nando.

Yep I used the SX-1980 everyday for 6 years before I retired it for a surround sound receiver. the Sansui was only used far a few months. The others even saw less usage.

 

[Elite-ist]

The only "monster" I had that was close was the Sansui 9900Z @ around 160 per channel.

Kind of a weird "concept" receiver right around the end of the monster wars. It had several "differences" when everyone got on the digital bandwagon. Like a so-called digital volume control, which actually drove a motor inside, which in turn drove an internal volume pot. It had a spectrum analyzer too - but just for looks. And the weirdest thing was a digital tuner - the knob acted and felt like the 'Sui's of old, but the dial was actually a strip of LED's, and an annoying "beep" sound every time you changed the station.

It was still built halfway-decent tho, and had liquid cooling on the output trannies.

Do you still have it, Jerry? Looks good! These transition receivers aren't too common, as they had only 2-3 year production runs. My favorite transitional Sansui receiver is the G-9700.

Nando.

 

[jbeckva]

Sold it off, unfortunately. Don't worry, I stopped doing that after the Sansui, a Yamaha R-9 (got another now), and a Crown 305WPC monster I got for 60 bucks (man I miss that Crown every time I hear a Neal Peart drum solo )

 

[stuwee]

Cool looking 'Sui, very clean lines. I never liked the up/down volume buttons. Your wife yells "Turn that shit down!", you hit the right side button by mistake , she thinks your an ass and calls the attorney

Even worse were those 80's JVC's with sliders for everything, dust got in there quick, and scratchy city!

 

[laatsch55]

DAYAM>>>>>> ya'll need to get a wife that loves it loud too!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jbeckva]

DAYAM>>>>>> ya'll need to get a wife that loves it loud too!!!!!!!!!!

Heheh.. well, I may not quite have one of those, but at least I have one that when I say "I'm going to BLAST for a few minutes", actually says "ok"...

 

[laatsch55]

Mine joins me, I'm truly blessed.

 

[speakerman1]

Mine joins me, I'm truly blessed.

Yes you are. Carly has only started telling me I can't hear the TV at the other end of the house. You know what I say? Oh Well turn it up and go back in the sound room. LOL

Larry

 

[rtp_burnsville]

Here is my Sansui 9090DB.... I bought it new in 77 or 78.

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