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I received the Sansui QS-1 today that I purchased on EBay for $26.00. Yeah guys....It's not the QSD-1, but in the last 2 years I've been brainwashed (in a good way I'm sure) to buy any quad component that is at least half intriguing. The seller wasn't sure if it worked because it had no power but noted it could be because it had no fuse, but he wasn't sure. Thinking 
that I had to buy a fuse at Radio Shack for the QRX-7001 I picked up at a pawn shop a few weeks ago, I thought I'd take a chance but put a limit on my bidding to $26.99. If the problem was more than the fuse, well I took the gamble and I would have to hope that it wouldn't cost me an arm and a leg to get it fixed.
I was able to pull the fuse from my TEAC AN-300 which is the kind the QS-1 needed to see if it would at least power up. It did, the four meters lit up---ahhh. Next thing to do was to see if more than just the lights worked. The dilemma. My house is in escrow and the first things I packed weeks ago were 95% of my audio gear (the best stuff of course) and all of my quad records. Well I looked around the house to see what was still unpacked. I had a Yamaha M-35 4-channel amp under my bedroom TV, the Marantz CD-400 that I can use as a phono preamp, one of my turnables, only two speakers that I had in my garage all these years that I only listened to when I washed the car, and that SQ record I found last week while on business travel (do you know that there isn't much in Wichita to speak of but I have found many an album there. Last week I found an album I have been looking for since 1984 <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/grin.gif ALT=" >D"> YEAH, YEAH! and also picked up six pristine dbx encoded albums). Anyway, I managed to find some audio cords (all my expensive interconnects are packed), turned everything on and VIOLA, the QS-1 played through the Yamaha. Actually very clean sounding and I got different readings from each of the meters. Only thing is I had only two speakers so I didn't know how well separation was. That test will have to come later.... And I need to find some matched knobs. This one came with three red-face knobs (those can't be there original ones!) and one was missing. I think I can get those at an electronics store near work.
So now I have these other questions about the QS-1 that I hope someone can answer for me. I can kinda figure out that the Solo, Concert Hall 1 and 2 are synthesized stereo. Normal surround must be the QS surround setting. But what are the quarter turn and half turn surround settings?
Thanks-Ed
that I had to buy a fuse at Radio Shack for the QRX-7001 I picked up at a pawn shop a few weeks ago, I thought I'd take a chance but put a limit on my bidding to $26.99. If the problem was more than the fuse, well I took the gamble and I would have to hope that it wouldn't cost me an arm and a leg to get it fixed.I was able to pull the fuse from my TEAC AN-300 which is the kind the QS-1 needed to see if it would at least power up. It did, the four meters lit up---ahhh. Next thing to do was to see if more than just the lights worked. The dilemma. My house is in escrow and the first things I packed weeks ago were 95% of my audio gear (the best stuff of course) and all of my quad records. Well I looked around the house to see what was still unpacked. I had a Yamaha M-35 4-channel amp under my bedroom TV, the Marantz CD-400 that I can use as a phono preamp, one of my turnables, only two speakers that I had in my garage all these years that I only listened to when I washed the car, and that SQ record I found last week while on business travel (do you know that there isn't much in Wichita to speak of but I have found many an album there. Last week I found an album I have been looking for since 1984 <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/grin.gif ALT=" >D"> YEAH, YEAH!
and also picked up six pristine dbx encoded albums). Anyway, I managed to find some audio cords (all my expensive interconnects are packed), turned everything on and VIOLA, the QS-1 played through the Yamaha. Actually very clean sounding and I got different readings from each of the meters. Only thing is I had only two speakers so I didn't know how well separation was. That test will have to come later.... And I need to find some matched knobs. This one came with three red-face knobs (those can't be there original ones!) and one was missing. I think I can get those at an electronics store near work.So now I have these other questions about the QS-1 that I hope someone can answer for me. I can kinda figure out that the Solo, Concert Hall 1 and 2 are synthesized stereo. Normal surround must be the QS surround setting. But what are the quarter turn and half turn surround settings?
Thanks-Ed
