Perhaps one of the most versatile amplifiers that Sansui has ever built and one of my all-time favorites; compact in size, powerful enough to drive most speakers, originally equipped with the beautiful Sanken power transistors, but they are easy to replace with newer model Sanken transistors if necessary. Easy to modify and service. A beautiful, very ‘lively’ and musical sounding amplifier. A Swiss army knife among amplifiers.
A small part of my Sansui collection.
In this AU-317 I fitted main capacitors that required a little creativity; I glued nylon M4 bolts onto the bottom of the capacitors with 2 component epoxy resin glue, bent two pieces of 2.5 qmm installation wire to the correct soldering positions into the circuit board and after placing, added a 4 mm nylon nut to tightly fix the capacitor into position. The large centre hole where the 4 mm bolt fits through is originally already present in the circuit board, so no drilling needed. Soldered the wires and ready to go.