Sansui CD-A717DR

Part of the last fairly visible Sansui lineup before the definitive withdrawal to the japanese market, the CD-a717DR was built in good part by Technics : the CD drive, FL display and M.A.S.H. converters are all direct imports from Matsushita.

Sansui worked on the analogue boards and refinement of the componentry.
With 15 regulations, two slanted power transformers giving seven windings (in total), three motors, some damping of the three sub-chassis with viscous material, eight symmetrical MASH converters, really balanced outputs and Sansui's audiophile bickering (the signal path, including grounding, is all balanced) and styrene and film caps and gold-plated terminals made for a very good CD player.

By japanese standards, however, this wasn't really high-end : at 100,000¥ and a build-quality which was clean but not all too distinguished, Sansui was only trying to hang on to the mid-end segment of a rapidly dwindling market.

For such a low price, however, at 11kg and given its drive and balanced MASH converters and XLR outputs, the CD-a717DR was quite a bargain. But during that timeframe, only Sony and Pioneer managed to sell high-end and mid-end CD players like Sansui was selling integrated amplifiers in the 1970s...

Available as well in champagne finish in Japan while the rest of us only got black and the shiny (beautiful) sideburns.
That is, the few who actually bought a CD-a717DR in the early-to-mid 1990s.