Sansui TU-9500 recap

Well Aaron i have a Sansui TU-719 I've wanted to do for a few years. Them suckers have like 9 miles of string
Nice job I have come to really like the Sansui tuners. I have had my fair share of older Yamaha and newer. Carver TX 11b was a good tuner but my Sansui TU-719 ran circles around it in both sound and ability to reach out and grab stuff clearly.
Once again very nice.

I have a TU-9900 currently in the hands of Joseph Chow for complete set of mods and service. Can't wait to get it back.

Nice repair you should get many more years out of it! Inheriting my Dad’s Sansui got me rooted in audio. It was sad to see it broken so I repaired it.

Can you do an Onkyo Integra A-8250 next and then sell it to me?

PM'd

@ALL212 I’ve seen just about every Sansui you mentioned for sale on eBay very recently. Including a mint Japan 100 volt TU-X1, which I currently have on my watch list.

Wow I just found another TU-X1 for sale in Germany!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/SANSUI-TU-X1-High-End-Super-Integrated-AM-FM-Stereo-Tuner-in-Best-Zustand-BDA/253987830567?hash=item3b22dabb27:g:atAAAOSwiqNbvJhD:rk:2:pf:0

Carlton while those are excellent tuners and I'd love to have one, they are a status piece plain and simple. There's just not enough quality radio stations anymore to justify a 25-3000.00 tuner. Yes this is my biased opinion. The TU-919 or the 9900 are my top end even if I fell into a billon dollar powerball winning ticket. The day's of yesterday radio that actually put out a good quality full bodied signal are no longer in my area at all. They have all been swallowed up by large corporate radio that compressess the snot out of the signal now. 20 yrs ago about everybody actually made a dedicated FM long range antenna. The dedicated FM antennas now are a far cry from quality booms and elements made by the likes APS. Anybody even remember the APS 13 and the smaller attic friendly APS 9. Those had great range and side rejection of multipath signals. Heck Channel Master hasn't even made the deep fringe antenna i had for at least 18-20 yrs. The multiple use antennas UHF/VHF/AM/FM never were liked by the true radio crowd but mine on a 40 aerial with a quality rotor did a darn fine job for my use. Some nights while DX'ing with my Sansui TU-719 I could pick up stuff from Europe and from all educated guesses south of the equator.

Oh well enough ramblings

@tonyb There are still store-bought options for FM Yagis (albeit not world-class ones, any more), and rotors are still available (plus, there are those of us who have... spares). There are more or less straightforward DIY options, too.

You're right, though, "we" don't need to pollute this thread which is more about Sansuis and/or capacitors than the vicissitudes of frequency modulation.

So... Why don't we start an FM thread?!
I mean, heck, if freaking cassettes can mount a comeback, why couldn't FM?!?

Srsly, I'm up for it.
No static at all, you know?

https://youtu.be/HV3zWSawJiw

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honestaquarian wrote: »

I'm still using my two Radio Shack Archer FM Stereo supreme antennas that I bought more than thirty years ago to pull in HDRadio now!
I agree radio sound quality ain't what it used to be back in the days when I used to love to DX. I kinda reached the end with my last Carver TX-11a when I realized no one was broadcasting AM stereo anymore. I wanted to get a TX-11b, but didn't see the point.
Does anyone remember the natural atmospheric phenomenon which happens only a couple of times a year where something changes in the ionosphere and causes radio signals to bounce back down instead of traveling through?
It would allow you to pick up FM signals hundreds of miles away, but only once or twice a year though.

What you are referring to is when highly energized particles is the ionosphere allowing station signals to bounce or skip off them. Now shortwave radio signals do it all the time regardless of most weather conditions, but some conditions are much more favorable.

pitdogg2 wrote: »

honestaquarian wrote: »

I'm still using my two Radio Shack Archer FM Stereo supreme antennas that I bought more than thirty years ago to pull in HDRadio now!
I agree radio sound quality ain't what it used to be back in the days when I used to love to DX. I kinda reached the end with my last Carver TX-11a when I realized no one was broadcasting AM stereo anymore. I wanted to get a TX-11b, but didn't see the point.
Does anyone remember the natural atmospheric phenomenon which happens only a couple of times a year where something changes in the ionosphere and causes radio signals to bounce back down instead of traveling through?
It would allow you to pick up FM signals hundreds of miles away, but only once or twice a year though.

What you are referring to is when highly energized particles is the ionosphere allowing station signals to bounce or skip off them. Now shortwave radio signals do it all the time regardless of most weather conditions, but some conditions are much more favorable.

On the west coast the same effect during the height of the aurora borealis---sometimes you can hear "come in Tokyo"