..except the round dial illumination is more green...and it works swell for being 40 years old! It needs nothing. Everything works like it should. These old round dial Sansui tuners are rare as hens teeth and the coolness factor alone is off the charts. 1971-1973 era with an original MSRP of $160.
They always added a flair with their lighting style
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The tuning motion has a nice feel and good movement to it. It has a weighted flywheel and will spin nicely, but yet you can fine tune it with enough finesse just fine. Built well.
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My brother bought a Sansui somewhere on R& R while in the Marines around 1970 over in Asia somewhere.
They were dirt cheap no tariff etc for military at the time.
Beautiful, glad to see I'm not the only one still using 1970's technology. My Pioneer tuner from 1977 has been a stalwart companion throughout the slings and arrows of time. Got pawned once sometime in the early 1990's when diapers were more of a priority, but went back on pay day and recouped it.
very neat, a real collectors item that will only grow in value.
> My brother bought a Sansui somewhere on R& R while in the Marines around 1970 over in Asia somewhere.
> They were dirt cheap no tariff etc for military at the time.
A lot of military guys did. I picked up a real nice Pioneer turntable with rosewood cabinet, a Sansui EQ, a nice Sony Cassette deck, a Marantz receiver, and some Cerwin Vega D6E speakers when I was stationed in Europe cheaper than what I could buy them for in the States. The CV's are hard to come by because they are the "euro" version of the D5. (that's what the E stands for in D6E) My brother seems to think that he inherited them....
P.L., what model is your Pioneer Tuner? Pioneer made some good stuff back then. That 70's technology is still better than todays stuff, unless you shell out a couple of grand.
