Recently gone through by top audio shop. Mint condition beauty. - AC repair service

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I bought this new in 1977 along with (2) matching Sansui speakers, a Dual 1249 turntable with a fancy cartridge and needle (I can't remember what it was that I bought-after all, it was 43 years ago) nad an Onkyo cassette deck. I played this thing non-stop from 1977-1990. I never watched TV as a young bachelor, just listened to music while entertaining. I then placed it in my living room for years. For the last 10 years, it's been outside on my patio in Las Vegas. This Sansui still plays and performs incredibly and everyone who visits can't believe I still have it and it still works. Frankly, I can't either. It was the best buy of my life. A lifetime of enjoyment. I'm 63 years old now and this Sansui and I still rock the house.

The weakness of this unit is just Father Time. It has no Bluetooth or MP3 crap but who the hell cares. It blows most new units away. You would have to spend thousands to replicate this awesome sound.

Next to the best receivers of that era, whatever they are, I don't know! The best score of my entire life from a thrift store!

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Recently gone through by top audio shop. Mint condition beauty. I have not found much that does not sound good with this receiver. A weakness might be for more modern tech like Bluetooth etc but all kinds of add ones for this. Running VANDERSTEEN 2C’s today and looking forward to seeing how they sound

Simply age. Have this amp serviced and you will be happy for another 40 years!

well folks, I bought one and the red light came on. parked it a while and brought it to galaxy electronics in new Orleans. the man smiled and said he would make it sing again. so I went get it. he said he put sanken finals and it would pump. so I brought it home and saw a pair of 5500x on ebay I bought them but the woofers were out. I bought a pair of 4 ohm boss woofers and put them in. I had to open up the port a bit but it fit after. so, after listening to the matchup, I would rate the sound quality as being in the recording studio. all those songs have hidden things which you hear with this set up I suppose these setups of 10 or 20 grand will deliver like this.

This thread clearly has a lot of very good ears and refined grey matter. I purchased my 9090DB in 1978 when I was attending General Motors Institute. Paired it with a Nakamichi cassette deck (sounded good, but unreliable), an Onkyo turntable (still have it) and Ohm C2 speakers (cones dry rotted in storage, but still have them). The 9090DB is still used weekly and is as strong as ever. I read that capacitor replacement ("recapping") will make a good old receiver into a great old receiver. Have any of you 'recapped' your receivers to sharpen the already good sound?

I like my Sansui 9090 that much so I wrote a blog about it: https://medium.com/cuepoint/how-a-digital-guy-fell-in-love-with-a-vintage-stereo-receiver-3bc132a347d7#.fa94637iq

I purchased my 9090DB in 1979 at United Audio in Chicago.
Years of PLEASURE!!! What a unit.

Purchased the Sansui 9090DB new back in '76. I recall paying over $300 for it at the time. Basically, that was about a week and half's take home pay for me. I've loved this receiver since day-one. Over the years, it has gotten relegated to my garage. I used to drive my landscape speakers and garage speakers. Decided to bring it back into the house today (forgot how heavy this sucker was). A few of the display lights didn't work and the pots. need to be cleaned. I spent about twenty minutes getting the display lights to work again, and I'm heading to RadioShack tomorrow to get a can of cleaner and lubricant for the pots. A little TLC and this sucker is going to be as good as new.

My brother purchased the 8080DB around the same time and he still uses his to this day.

If you are fortunate enough to already own one of these, never let it go. If you ever find one, buy it!

Cheers!
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i went to a yard sale last friday and i saw this sleeping beast! the owner told me to make offer.my first offer $50 and the owner said yes! he said he needs money.i almost give him an extra $50 because of an excitement.for $50 ? lol!