Just finishing Rebuilding/Restoring Trio Amp & Tuner. All original with exception to the Mains lead & the new components obviously, Just fitted a mains cable gland, removed the dangerous, by todays standards bell wire mains lead.. Just got the new to fit. Anyway the sockets in question are to the right side of the rear. Im hopefully going to use one to power the Tuner only.

Siome of these sansui's do sound really lovely as I remember, but even twenty years ago, they suffered from noisy switches and so on. caps seem to last very well on the better Jap amps from the 70's compared to those available in the UK I feel.


Andr'e, have a look out for Quad mains leads on ebay. I know, these are twin core with moulded plugs, but I use them and they seem fine. As for the plugs themselves, it'll have to be eBay.com serving the US I think, as these two pin exposed plugs were all but outlawed in the Uk decades ago.


These don't fit later Quad 33's, but will your Sansui -

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/191747591467?lpid=122&chn=ps&adgroupid=33170564523&rlsatarget=pla-257284460600&adtype=pla&poi=&googleloc=1006719&device=c&campaignid=661219804&crdt=0

Jerry:
I restore & rebuild everything myself. Takes me some time with Work commitments but i get there, My Equipment generally looks like it's just left the showroom. Don't think for one moment you can  buy one from the Bay & expect it to sound great, a common mistake folk make hence usually judge what they hear buy an unserviced amp.. They need service. I have a total of four Trio amps now 'KA-2000'/'KA-2000a'/'TK-150'/'KA-4002'.. Pick up any early 70's Hi-Fi mag these amps always hag glowing reviews..only low power though remember..

As Dave rightly pointed out quite a few 70's Japanese amps can & generally do sound better than the Brit stuff back then, just that snobs wont have it



btw: these early amps were branded Trio in the UK, Kenwood elsewhere. 

Not only is it a nice looking amp (beautiful AFAIC) it's also well put together for the internal pics I've seen. Stacked with the matching tuner it looks utterly gorgeous.. Andr'e you do indeed have fine taste!