{"id":76,"date":"2026-07-12T18:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sansui.online\/?p=76"},"modified":"2026-07-12T18:52:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:52:03","slug":"masters-ba-218","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sansui.online\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/masters-ba-218\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters BA-218"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In January, I received this amplifier from Japan, as expected, one output transformer turned out to be faulty. These amplifiers were designed and manufactured by former Sansui engineer Master Hirano-San(RIP) from Ishino Lab, and I bought it to restore and preserve it as a sign of respect for this man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Front_view-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Front_view-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Front_view-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Front_view-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Front_view-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Front_view-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Podval_sm-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Podval_sm-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Podval_sm-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Podval_sm-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Podval_sm-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Podval_sm-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The faulty transformer was removed from the case and sent to Italy to a specialist for rewinding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"999\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Dead_OPT-999x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Dead_OPT-999x1024.jpg 999w, https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Dead_OPT-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Dead_OPT-768x787.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Dead_OPT-1498x1536.jpg 1498w, https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Dead_OPT.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1006\" src=\"https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Naked_OPT-1024x1006.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Naked_OPT-1024x1006.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Naked_OPT-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Naked_OPT-768x754.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sansui.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Naked_OPT.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January, I received this amplifier from Japan, as expected, one output transformer turned out to be faulty. These amplifiers were designed and manufactured by former Sansui engineer Master Hirano-San(RIP) from Ishino Lab, and I bought it to restore and preserve it as a sign of respect for this man. The faulty transformer was removed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-masters-amps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sansui.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sansui.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sansui.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sansui.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sansui.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sansui.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/sansui.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sansui.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sansui.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sansui.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sansui.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}