Quadrockasaurus
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Sansui QR-4500 Quadraphonic Receiver
Rarity: UNCOMMON
Average Sale Price: $100 - $150.00
Most quad fans tend to pass these up thanks to the early decoders....consequently cheap. Last one here in Australia sold for a somewhat pricey $255.00. A couple of the next range higher end QRX-6500's sold here for approx. $300.00 several months back...and they are a better bet if you are interested in a Quad Sansui from this early 70's era for that sort of money, as they (..the QRX Range) are the first with the great "Vario-matrix" Quad Synthesizer that everyone raves about. The QR-4500 is still a versatile, very nice sounding early Quad unit that does a couple of very useful things that the later models do not...
The QR-4500 was second from the top of Sansui's first generation of Quad Receiver's introduced in 1971-ish. Early days for Quad so the decoders are pretty basic....no vario-matrix yet. Still great as a four channel discrete unit connected from an external decoder or even maybe a DVD player set up to mix down to 4 channels. It also includes Quad "Pre amp out" & "Power Amp in" connections missing from ALL later (QRX) Sansui Quad Receivers so you could feed this units quad pre-amp out into much more powerful power amplifiers.
Also note that on these early First Gen. Sansui "QR" Series Quad receivers...you can record a internally Quad decoded signal straight onto a connected Quad recorder...some later QRX Units won't let you do that..!!
Some Basic QR-4500 Info:
Power Output: 27 Watts (8ohms) x 4.
Weight: 41Lbs.
Inputs/Connections Available:
Phono Inputs x 2
Quad Aux In x 1
Quad Tape Loop In/Out x 1
Stereo Aux In x 1
Stereo Tape Loop In/Out x 2
Quad Pre Out
Quad Main In
Sansui QR-4500 Quadraphonic Receiver
Rarity: UNCOMMON
Average Sale Price: $100 - $150.00
Most quad fans tend to pass these up thanks to the early decoders....consequently cheap. Last one here in Australia sold for a somewhat pricey $255.00. A couple of the next range higher end QRX-6500's sold here for approx. $300.00 several months back...and they are a better bet if you are interested in a Quad Sansui from this early 70's era for that sort of money, as they (..the QRX Range) are the first with the great "Vario-matrix" Quad Synthesizer that everyone raves about. The QR-4500 is still a versatile, very nice sounding early Quad unit that does a couple of very useful things that the later models do not...
The QR-4500 was second from the top of Sansui's first generation of Quad Receiver's introduced in 1971-ish. Early days for Quad so the decoders are pretty basic....no vario-matrix yet. Still great as a four channel discrete unit connected from an external decoder or even maybe a DVD player set up to mix down to 4 channels. It also includes Quad "Pre amp out" & "Power Amp in" connections missing from ALL later (QRX) Sansui Quad Receivers so you could feed this units quad pre-amp out into much more powerful power amplifiers.
Also note that on these early First Gen. Sansui "QR" Series Quad receivers...you can record a internally Quad decoded signal straight onto a connected Quad recorder...some later QRX Units won't let you do that..!!
Some Basic QR-4500 Info:
Power Output: 27 Watts (8ohms) x 4.
Weight: 41Lbs.
Inputs/Connections Available:
Phono Inputs x 2
Quad Aux In x 1
Quad Tape Loop In/Out x 1
Stereo Aux In x 1
Stereo Tape Loop In/Out x 2
Quad Pre Out
Quad Main In
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