I ended up with a Sansui TU417 a year ago or so, and it got awful lonely sitting on the shelf.

I found this on a local CL two weeks ago for $120 with some other "stuff", and it just sat there. I emailed the guy and offered him $40 for the AU417, and he said OK, so I went and picked it up today.

I'll clean it up a little tomorrow or the next day and give 'er a whirl. Notice how, even though the photo is crappy, the dust really shows up well around the controls!



Larry


PS I had an extra pair of handles laying around, and they're the right ones!

Congrats! Nudie please!!

Sweetness! Great score at a reasonable price. Jealous here!

All I did is plug it in and see if it comes out of protection, which it does. I pulled the cover off and it's a little dusty but looks and smells OK. I give 'er a douche in the AM and hook my junk speakers up to test it. If she works OK, I'll take it in the house and try the Cornwalls.

I'll snap photos when it's clean.

Great score Larry! Enjoy!

Jim

Here's the innards.

The 417 is the same physical size as the 717/719, but substantially lighter. You can see the chassis has spots for more "stuff", but they're vacant. All in all it's pretty clean inside. I blew the dust out with the compressor, then shot the controls with some Chemtrol contact cleaner compliments of the US Government.

In the original photo I commented about the dust around the controls that showed up in the photo. That isn't what it was. There is a hard paper/plastic material that goes behind the faceplate for a background. There is a brown ring that showed up between where the knobs and faceplate fit. I don't know if it was fading from light, or nicotine/dirt. What I did to remove it was soak a towel corner with Windex, then carefully rubbed the ring until it just started to loosen the surface of the "paper" a little, then let it dry. It seemed to get most of it. Next time will probably require a marker/dye/paint to take it back to black.

Time to clean up the knobs (plastic, not metal like the 7XX series) and put her back together. Then I'll get the tuner from on top of the pallet rack and mate the two.

Interesting look, thanks. Note the output chips rather than discrete. The next higher 517 has dual transformers and four caps.

Nice amp. Enjoy.

Tried her out last night, but just with the tuner. I got it all set up, hooked up the HPM 100s, turned it on, and number one son showed up home from college on Christmas break, so we postponed the audition until later.

Sounded pretty good so far............