Cowboy Movie

The Day: Sunday

The Time: Before Noon

The Album: "If I could only remember my name" David Crosby 1971

The Vintage Audio System

Receiver/Amplifier: Sansui 5000X 55watts per channel Made 1971-1972

Turntable: Techniques 1600 MKII Cartridge/Stylus ADC series III Made 1976

Sansui 5000X&Techniques 1600 Basking in the morning sun

A Speakers: Sansui SP-1200 3 way 5 speakers 8Ohms max power 60 watts 

Made 1980 & 1983

                          10" Woofer   4" Squawker x 2  2" tweeter x 2 

SP -1200 Lattice grill removed

B Speakers: Realistic Nova 9   3 Way 3 speakers 8Ohms Max power 40 watts 

Made 1970's

                    15" Woofer  4" Midrange  2" Super tweeter

Realistic Nova 9 with decorative non removable grill cloth

I am so very fortunate to be able to wake up Sunday mornings and like many people celebrate life through attending "Sunday Services" The only thing for me is that I don't have to get all dolled up for church. I roll out of bed from an wonderful slumber, make a hearty pot of coffee and then head to my Meditation room which is where this system is located in the house. It's a small room which is perfect for a Mid powered system like this one.

The Techniques 1600 MKII turntable is absolute rock solid and never misses a beat or fluctuates in speed. This is a close cousin that tends to fly under the radar of the world famous Techniques 1200 Turntable.

The Sansui 5000X is a sweet warm sounding amplifier that has the capability to sound crystal clear at low volumes like a kitten purring or when pushed get angry and rattle the walls like a pissed off teenager raging with hormones.It can push Bass with extreme clarity in the mids and highs while making sure everyone in the house knows why you really need to listen to Rush's 1st album "Rush"

The SP-1200's Are truly a unique design. Hence why I am such a fan of the Sansui SP lineup of speakers. In my experience people either really loves this line up or absolutely hate them. Personally I love them will admit Sansui speakers to me are like women and shoes...Well they pack 5 speakers in to this box and they all are strategically placed in order to optimize the sound. Also, one of the big problems with vintage speakers is the rotted out foam around the speaker cone. So Sansui used an cloth impregnated with glue as the speaker surround instead of a foam surround that could potentially rot away (Which by the way, most people will look at a speaker and see that the foam surround is rotted and think the speaker is bad it's not. The speaker can be repaired). Using a cloth surround for these speakers makes them almost bullet proof! Plus the dense medium drives the Bass is a way that doesn't punch you in the chest it envelops you and creates the sense of Bass that flows through the room. The mids and highs are so well reproduced that you can actually here Jerry Garcia fingers slide across the fret board with this album.

The Realistic Nova 9's were such an impulse purchase one rainy Sunday afternoon a while back. There they were sitting on the shelf looking as if Austin Powers had outgrown these party hardy speakers. Chips, dings scratches and of course the dreaded drink rings all over the top... I felt sorry for them but as soon as I saw that retro fabric speaker cloth, well I new they had to come home. I've used them in various applications but always in lower watt type situations. This is a little higher than I like but they seem to be working. The 15" Bass is like 1970's sub woofer. They vibrate in to the floor even though they are sitting on very dense wool pads. They resonate off the walls and fill in where the Sansui's leave off. The Mids are nice and unassuming and the high's just sing!

The speaker combination is a very nice mix. The Sansui SP-1200's are definable more direct and fill in the higher frequencies where as the Nova 9's big ole resonating box covers the  warmer lower end of the sound profile. Over all I am extremely impressed with this sound system. Low volumes, to Rockn' out and everything in the middle, this system has it all.