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The Sansui SP 5500X

Posted by ka7niq (A) on August 21, 2007 at 18:01:54

I picked up a pair of these locally, just for kicks.
After all, we KNOW Sansui is "junk", right ?
Wrong!
These things are efficient, musical and effortless, and image very well, believe it or not.
Maybe they image so well because of the vertically oriented horn, or the directional midrange cone driver array ?
Yes, they are colored, having a kind of "Wurlitzer" sound on lower range of some male voices.
I am playing with stand height to minimise this.
They pack a big midbass sound, perfect to blend with my big subwoofers.
They are excellent on Rock and Disco.
Great sounding on Eva Cassiday's Live album.
When she sings "Blue Sky" it is very live sounding.
AC/DC and Ozzie Osborne are reproduced with power and no edge.
These are very easy speakers to live with, and don't run you out of the room like many Klipsch I have owned.

Like I said, I JUST got these a few days ago.
At the moment, I am only using a little Parasound HCA 500 50 watt amp plugged into a big Powervar.

Havent even tried my Luxman M 117 or my Moscode 600.

IF I can figure out a way to shut up the box, or damp the rear wave of the driver w/o screwing up box tuning, these could be special.

If you look at the picture, you can see this is a Horn speaker.
That vertical horn is NOT a Piezo, and there is a radial horn tweeter.

The dual midrange array combined with the vertical horn makes these directional, a GOOD thing.
Just like any horn speaker, you can move em towards or away from you to get the balance just right.

I opened em up to tighten and clean all connections.
The WHOLE cabinet is felt lined.

The crossover is hard to get to, and I am itching to re cap em.

I just wanted to add this info to the knowledge database.
These can be had quite reasonably.

I think I actually prefer them to the Klipsch Forte's I owned in some ways.

They do not go as deep in the bass, but they are not as "on the edge" in their voicing either.

The lower midrange "Wurlitzer Coloration" bugs me sure, but I find it far preferrable to the edginess of the Klipsch on some material.

I can listen to these for hours LOUD, and walk away refreshed.

Ok, so they will not challenge my B&W Matrix 801's for "audiophile" stuff like low coloration, and transparency.
But I enjoy these, especially for how little I paid for them.

My advice ?
If you ever find a paid locally cheap, grab em, and give them an honest listen.
You MAY find yourself re thinking your opinion of Japanese speakers.

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