The only thing that's keeping me from dragging behind this morning is the super-stoked feeling I've got from the result of last night's 7 hour driving flog from the High Desert north of Los Angeles to the beaches of San Diego. It started out innocently enough with an inquiry to an on-line ad for furniture, exercycle and a Sansui stereo with four speakers for $275 as a casual add-on. No model specified, so I emailed and asked about it. After a couple of emails where the woman had to check what model, I finally got the response yesterday morning.
"RE: Performance Road Bike, Lifecycle, Massage Table, Stereo:"
"Hi Regis. The Stereo is a Sansui G22000 pure power DC Stereo reciever, huge amplifier, and 4 huge speakers 2.5 feet tall each. 950 watts 50/60 Hz . Serial # 238110086."
My jaw dropped. My tyrant father made me sell my G-22000 (as a condition of living at his home) more than 20 years ago and it still brings up memories of painful regret. The G-22000 is pretty rare and they're usually command the high dollar on Ebay, easily topping $1,000. I've only seen about a half dozen actually go up for sale in the last two years, so finding one for $275 was incredible. This is one of the very notable "Monster" recievers of the Japanese stereo wars back in the late 70's.
93 pounds of Solid State love and 220 WPC RMS. The amp has dual transformers as well and it's a dual chassis design that you can stack or attach back-to-back. It's over two feet wide and stacked it's almost 18 inches high. I got down there and I really toned myself down, not wanting to come off as a collector or somebody knowledgeable. But there it was and it was in nearly mint condition with only one small scratch on it that you wouldn't notice unless it was pointed out. I got four Kenwood speakers with it as well. Haven't tested it, but it did cycle through the power-on sequence, with the LED going green.
I believe this will be a fine match for the L-300's. Here is a represantive pic
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