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Thank you! I'd do it all again...I loved serving. USA! USA!

Thanks so much for the reply! It was a great day for sure...I wonder if the trash guys would have recognized what was there if I wasn't. Chances are, it would have been in the back of a truck among heaps of rubbish.

Welcome to the group, Drew! I was already drooling over the Sansui 7700 before I read your story. OMG, you scored a free 7700, in THAT condition? Congrats indeed - at least it found a great home, instead of winding up as trash. Keep your eyes open for more such trash! In the mean time, join in the fun, here, and enjoy the music!

Welcome, @Drew Losch. Glad you found us..., You are going to love it here... That Sansui is a great story - and unit.

Hey Carver Community! Drew here...new here just breakin' some ice and lookin' forward to a 'cool' experience with you all. I'm a retired U.S. Army Staff Sergeant with a passion for 'old school' stereo goodies esp Carver! I have a Carver TFM-22 rack system and I love it!

Welcome Drew to the Carver site. Always great to add a member as well as another veteran. Bamberg Germany 1987 - 90 and that was where I began my Carver journey. Hope you enjoy your stay here.

Welcome Drew!!! Hey, love your story about the Sansui.....and go USA. So happy to have you. Great guys here and lots of good stuff going on all the time.

Thanks so much! Looking fwd to a great experience here.

Thanks so much for the reply! Yes, it was a great day and PERFECT timing seeing the woman toting that amp....she was struggling a bit because of the weight, but I gladly snapped it up.

I have other pics, but need to trim them down to post. The amp had a few blown power supply cans. I'll post those pics soon! Man, they were swollen, but didn't leak thank God.

Thank you! I'd do it all over again...USA! I have a great 'old school' story to tell you guys. I was driving down the street in Jefferson, Ohio and it was a residential area so very slow speed. I saw a lady walking from her house on the lawn, and she was toting an amplifier! She was heading straight for the curb where there was trash...I stopped the car and asked her what she had there. She was struggling with the weight of the amp, so I knew it was something good. It was a Sansui AU- 7700 in beautiful condition. I said "Are you junking this"? She said "Yes, it doesn't work". I promptly and carefully took the amp from her arms..."Can I have this"??? SURE! take it. I loaded it in my car and she went back in. Just as I was driving away, she came out yelling, "Hey, I have this too'! It was the original laminated set-up sheet in perfect condition! WOW! a complete treasure! I'll post some pics here soon...the ones I have are too large...can't post them.

Thanks so much!

WELCOME @Drew Losch! Glad you found us... Tell us about your 'old school' stereo journey. Thank you for your service

Welcome to the site! Glad to have you here. We hope you enjoy the site and learning about the gear. Thank you for your service!

While several comments aren't NAS or Streamer related specifically, the infrastructure plays an important role in my mind making those items play nice and be reliable. In fact it was my desire to have a proper file server for all my audio and video content that pushed me harder than anything else to upgrade the infrastructure. Gigabit Ethernet does not cut it for me. I'm too impatient. With the advent of SATA SSD and then NVMe SSD tech I had to upgrade a couple of times and finally have settled on 10Gbit fiber between servers and workstations. My Audio PC and Home theater PC's are still on gigabit because that's all they need to consume content but moving that content around between servers and workstations is just too slow at 114MB/sec that gigabit provided me. When I drag several GIGs from my workstation to a server from an NVMe drive, it moves at about 1000MB/sec until the buffers on the target server fill up. Moving to UnRAID servers will allow the installation of NMVe SSD caching drives as large as 8TB I guess (current max). LOL...... I guess I'll have to go to 40GBbit fiber next.... 🙂 It never ends does it? Working for myself and from home I got the business side on a different subnet some time ago. I have no idea what sort of crap/Mal-ware is installed on peoples boxes and do what I can to limit exposure to potential problems. I've done a few layout "re-works" myself here at home in the last 14 years allowing me to expand my vocabulary.