anyone know anything about a Sansui G-5500 receiver?

A guy at work gave me this receiver to check out, I took the cover off and found a blown fuse, replaced it, plugged it in, press power switch and fuse just blows. I found some info about it, some people say it's a good little ( not physically) receiver 55 watts x 2, big sucka, other people say it's ok if you can find one cheap and working. Freddie the Sansui expert what say you?

The G-5500 is a good unit. If it's continuing to blow a fuse without a load on it, I would suspect something in the amp power supply portion of the circuit but would need to run tests on it to be sure.

hey that looks cool tony fuse burn not sure but could be the power audio ics but cant say for sure i remember having a sansui reciever back in the days with a bad transformer,,i never found an original one so i ended up salvaging a motorola base radio so i pulled the tranformer out of that and since the reciever was given to me well i had nothing to lose , so i tried the transformer and i got the sucker to work wow but that was way back then

That's definitely a nice looking receiver. I hope you get it figured out, Tony.

this thing is big, like pioneer 1980 big but not as heavy or powerful

well belive me with the right speakers they can get loud

Fatdog said:

That's definitely a nice looking receiver. I hope you get it figured out, Tony.

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im with fatdog -- thats beautiful
find a way to save it.

ahardb0dy said:

this thing is big, like pioneer 1980 big but not as heavy or powerful

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Not by a long shot Tony, not by a long shot. As sansui's go, it's one of the smaller ones. To get with the big boys, you need to go all the way up to the G8000 and G9000's and those are big, although still not quite as big (beefy) or anywhere near as heavy as the SX-1980.

If it was given to you for free and you have a potential use for it, I'd consider having it fixed locally. Even if it's rated at just 60wpc, it'll pretty much fill any normal sized room with good sound when matched with decent speakers.

I know a guy in Tampa who can surely fix it for a reasonable price.... His name is Ted and his shop is called Audio Laboratories on Henderson Blvd. It would probably be cheaper to find a working one on eBay, though.

Did you do any research to see what they sell for on ebay in working condition? IIRC, while not as desirable as the TOTL big boys, the mid and lower Sansui G-series receivers are also somwhat sought after. Not everybody needs to have triple digit wpc and the look alone is worth hooking up some speakers.

Good luck whichever way you go!

that looks like the way to go tony send it out to this guy its close i am more than sure jt will help you with it

It wasn't given to me to keep, yet, it was given to me so I could see what was wrong with it. I saw one on E-bay yesterday fully working for $75.

Never actually seen a 1980 in person but this one looked pretty big to me

ok i thought it was for you my bad

just saw the sansui i used to have sansui r-30 silver face on ebay

he gave me another one to check out newer smaller, Yamaha R70, but that one is totally fu--ked!

this just sold tonight --sansuis are NICE !!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sansui-TU-9900-tune ... 286.c0.m14

yes that tuner is amazing.

spoke to my co-worker today who gave me the receivers, told him what I found and he said he didn't want any of them back, said they were given to him. So I'm going to take the Sansui up to the tech and see if he can give me an estimate on what may be wrong with it, not going to spend a fortune to have it repaired, unless he wants to fix it and try to sell it for me. It's not a bad looking receiver and if it turns out to be a simple problem I'll have it repaired and keep it. The Yamaha and the tivo will be tossed in the trash.

spoke to the tech today he fixed the sansui and cleaned it all up, he said the thing sounds incredible, as good as the 300 watt 2 pc sansui receiver, said it was a joy to work on as the parts were common parts not anything unique to sansui, now all I have to do is pay him for his work, going to go look at it on saturday

so they did give it to you well thats cool if you find the matching sansui speakers then you are set

ahardb0dy said:

..............he said the thing sounds incredible, as good as the 300 watt 2 pc sansui receiver..........

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Tony, I'm glad to hear this thing is fixed but if your tech told you that the G5500 sounds as good as a G-22000 or G-33000, then I think he ought to be committed. Like to the funny farm committed.