Top vintage receivers vs. modern high-end equipment

Vintage Sansui AU 7700 has so much flexibility and S.Q. performance buying anything else under 10,000 bucks is a huge risk in all counts...

A berning ZotL will be better at 6,000 bucks , i am pretty sure.... But no flexibility

But i could keep my Sansui anduse it like a power amplifier or like a pre-amplifier which is a great pre-amplifier if we read reviews...

Then... Sansui are the way for me.... I pay it 100 bucks 7 years ago.... Never look back and bought a second one....

No contemporary could build so high quatity now save over 10,000 generally...

I bought two Sansui :)

 

No vintage receiver will beat my 2 Sansui.... the only one i bought was a Kenwood a good one but i sold it....

I dont want to boast so much about these amplifiers, just that my happiness with them never decreased but has increased with time....

The only other amplifier i want is a modern ZOTL but the cost is over my head compared to my Sansui....Without doubt the Berning will be better in S. Q. because it is a new complete tube technology... Any other amplifier under 10,000 will made me afraid at the idea to buy one, no flexibility, and there is not much under 10,000 modern amp that could beat the Sansui...

 

 

I bought a Sansui AU-7700 and love it so much I bought another Sansui of the more advanced alpha series... The sound is more refine yes, but I like the Au-7700 so much, that I listen to it mostly with speakers and headphone... There is better ? Yes, but at which price? And better for what? Where is the contemporary product that have so useful tone controls of the highest quality, a separated pre-amp function of great quality, a useful loudness button, a phono section of the highest quality adjustable , etc etc...? The answer is no contemporary amplifier had these many features...

The Sansui is so good that I dont listen to any limitation when upgrading the source, on the contrary with any upgrade of source, with any tweak to the electro-magnetic fields of the gear and room, the Sansui seems to sound better, totally detailed and organic, holographic and tube-like...

The real question is not: should i buy vintage or contemporary ?... The real question is "with a low investment", which contemporary low cost amplifier can beat a Queen of yesterday’s audiophile kingdom like a TOTL Sansui ? The answer is none ...

I can crush my Sansui if I buy for example a dreamed Berning ZOTL amplifier around 5000 bucks, but the Sansui cost me 100 bucks+150 bucks to clean the old catalytics etc... The other question is the Berning amplifier will be better but the margin of improvement will equate with 4,500 bucks more than the Sansui price... Is the Sansui so bad that I want to upgrade it? The answer is no, except if I bought a winning lottery ticket...