Sansui TU-717 Hi-Fidelity Stereo FM/AM Tuner TU717 Nice

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In the mid 1940’s Khosaku Kikuchi founded Sansui Electric in the heart of Tokyo Japan. From the very start Kikuchi was determined to produce products of the highest quality. Initially Sansui specialized in producing radio parts and transformers. The quality of the product was immediately realized and before long they were Japan’s most prominent supplier.

About the same time as the great American golden era of audio began, Sansui shifted their efforts to that of producing complete audio components. Kikuchi was smitten with the Hi-Fi products streaming in from America & Britain, although he also felt Sansui could be competitive in this industry. Like his American/British counterparts he had a belief that designing and constructing components to the highest quality possible would establish a reputation and the profits would follow. This proved to be a difficult for a company based in Japan. While the common belief in the day was Japanese manufacturers were inferior, largely because most were producing copycat components of much less quality, this was not true of Sansui. In fact, Sansui went through great efforts to continually introduce new technology to the marketplace and prided themselves on the high level of fidelity their components produced..

By the 1970’s Sansui started to gain much deserved acceptance by the audio elite. With proprietary technology such as Diamond Differential DC Circuitry, and high quality circuit designs featuring Toroidal & El-Core Transformers with custom made electrolytic capacitors featuring huge capacitance levels, they were getting hard to ignore. Sansui devoted a large percentage of their resources into research and development. They whole-heartedly pursed silicon transistor technology, and their efforts directly influenced its fruition into a musically enjoyable technology. The components built by Sansui from the 60’s to the mid 80’s represent the finest they had to offer, a line of components that never quite got the recognition they deserved, although are being re-discovered today in an era where this degree of corporate pride is but a distant memory.

If there was one area of the hi-fi componentry where the Japanese manufactures had an obvious dominance it was with FM/AM tuners. Japanese manufacturers such as Kenwood, Pioneer and Sansui had a knack for extracting the highest level of fidelity from airborne frequency waves, and they produced many amazing quality tuners that did just that.

The TU-717 descended from a long line of notable Sansui tuners. It was introduced in 1977 with a production run until 1979. It is a really great sounding tuner that could be compared to other notable classics that cost considerably more. It portrays the FM band with a level of fidelity few tuners can, tonal quality is natural and bold, music is rendered full of life, sonically portraying the full width and depth of the dynamic range. With proper reception the soundstage is amazingly depicted and sharply focused. Some of its many features and functions include:

Condition:

Tuner has been tested and it is operating nicely. It sounds great on both channels. All features and functions are working including all lamps and meters. Cosmetically unit has some scratches on the cover, a scuff on the dial glass and some ware and tear. It also does not have the feet, as it was used in a rack mount configuration.

Winning bidder pays $29.75 for careful shipping, packaging, & insurance in the continental U.S.
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