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Above I made comments that despite my new Experimental Sansui TU-X1 with better parts is much better (I have someone who actually objectively measure it)  but the old and not modified Sansui TU-X1 has that advantage of the unique tone that I values very high and certainly do not want to lose.  It is not that the Experimental Sansui TU-X1 sounds like McIntosh - it still has all TU-X1’s thing s, but that glorious vocal infliction of the “old black man from Mississippi” is slightly less in the Experimental TU-X1.

I was blaming the better and cleaner parts that I put in the Experimental TU-X1 (and they are much better and much more transparent parts) but there is catch in that thinking – I did not listen my Experimental TU-X1 BEFORE the parts were changed. Bothe tuners are 30 years old and it is very possible that they just aged differently. The Experimental TU-X1 spent it’s 30 years in Germany and my old TU-X1 lived in Vermont for it last 10 years. Only god knows what they did and how they were used. However, Ken the Technician proposed that the difference in them might be even before we started to work with parts modification. Well, it does make sense and might be a possibility. Of course no one would say defiantly at this point what is what….

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