Sansui Model 3000 (1966)
A 110-watt solid-state tuner-amplifier that Sansui put on the hi-fi show floor and let do its own talking.
Overview
The number here is 110 watts. Sansui's own show advertising for the Model 3000 - an AM/FM solid-state multiplex stereo tuner amplifier - leaned hard on that figure and billed it as the highest sound quality available for its power output. That's a marketing claim, not a lab measurement. Read it like any manufacturer's show-floor copy. What the advertising does establish is the layout: a single chassis with an AM/FM multiplex stereo tuner and a solid-state amplifier, rated at 110 watts. It also establishes where the unit showed up, which was the National Hi-Fi Shows in Chicago and New York.
The documentary record for this model is thin. The 110-watt figure comes from Sansui's own advertising, not an independent test bench, so treat it as a manufacturer's rating. No independently measured distortion, frequency response, or sensitivity figures have surfaced in the material available here. Anyone weighing a purchase should expect to check the tuner section and the output stage themselves, since there's no published spec sheet to lean on. What can be said is this: it's a 1966 solid-state Sansui tuner-amplifier, shown at two major hi-fi exhibitions, and pitched by its maker on its power-to-quality ratio.
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