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is sansui a good brand

PostPosted: Wed May 14, 2003 2:43 am
by jedimc
I just wanted to know if anyone out there has used sansui products out there and tell me if they are good becuase i want to buy a Sansui VCD / CD / MP3 Player, it looks heaps good.
Take a look at http://www.strathfield.com.au/Product.asp?ProdID=260
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PostPosted: Wed May 14, 2003 3:00 am
by eliminator
they're all over the World with different products, generally established as a brand name. If you like it, get it.

PostPosted: Wed May 14, 2003 4:16 am
by jedimc
do you know wat country they make their products in? (probaly china)

PostPosted: Wed May 14, 2003 1:11 pm
by vbl117
The company itself is japanese but you are right most japanese electronical enterprises manufacture their products in Taiwan or in China .

http://www.sansui-jpn.co.jp/

website mixes japanese and english .

They seem to manufacture mainly audio/video products ( though they show few products on their website ) .

The product seems good ( i don't know the prices )

PostPosted: Wed May 14, 2003 2:35 pm
by dodecahedron
i bought a Sansui stereo system for both my mother and my sister.
it's a Micro component system (separate decks for receiver/CD/tape/MD/surround equalizer) - not like these mini stereos that are one big ugly plastic box with everything in it ugh!
bought just the reciever and CD decks + 2 speakers.

so far they work just fine, no problems. it's a really nice system, well designed in my non-professional opinion. nice metallic-gold finish.
sound is great!

PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2003 2:12 am
by jedimc
They seem to be a pretty good brand, dodecahedron i think they look pretty good too, thanx vbl117 for the extra info, i thought they might be a taiwan or chinese brand, but nearly all the japanese company manafactuar their pruducts thier and sansui seem tobe the cheapest.

PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2003 11:34 am
by jase
Sansui. Now there's a blast from the past!!!

Used to be one of the very best Japanese hifi manufacturers, up there with Denon and Pioneer. But I haven't heard much of them in recent years, and I think a lot of their budget stuff is simply cheaper manufacturers' products with a Sansui badge. I would hazard a guess that this personal stereo is just such an item.

In my experience all the VCD/MP3/CD players I've used have clearly had the same underlying circuitry. Poor sound quality, with interference from what sounds like the timing chips when playing discs. The video isn't too bad though. A lot of the players I've used have also had awful build quality, with buttons that don't work a lot of the time, bits of plastic which snap off and so on.

Make ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN this is a genuine Sansui (phone them and ask who manufactured the unit). If it isn't, run a mile, I'm afraid. That's my opinion anyway!

PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2003 2:14 am
by jedimc
Have you ever used a sansui cd/mp3/vcd player jase ,i hate when good brands go cheap.do you this one might be cheap it looks ok.

PostPosted: Sun May 18, 2003 1:13 am
by jedimc
I went to the shop were they sell it and the packageing looked cheap it was a big yellow box it was pretty big for a cd player inside it didnt say were it was manfactuared but it is made in china.

PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2003 1:42 am
by jedimc
I decided not to buy it becuase i just dont know if its good quality or not but if any one else buys one, tell me if itz good 8)