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Hibernator69

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  1. Ditto! And thanks for the great work on my M-500 and M1.0t's.
  2. Wow, very cool. Thanks for sharing. So what you are saying is that platter needs to be defragged ...
  3. Thx for rundown. You forgot about Gene's K(appa)-MAX 11.1 system. With 4 silver 7ts and an array of TFM-45s and 55s he must be over 10,000 watts. Would love to know how he fits 8 16 cu ft sub enclosures in that room though!
  4. Lol, I knew it: Madonna Had no idea what Q sound was other than that I knew I had seen it on one of my CDs. Didn't know the Pink Floyd album had it too. Other choices are available too according to he Wikipedia page.
  5. Love this thread, lots of songs for me to check out! I'm a little stuck in the Euro 80s, but I have added a whole classic rock side I somehow neglected in my teens. My list has to do more with things I am very familiar with, they might not be traditional reference recordings: in no particular order - Die Toten Hosen: Hier kommt Alex, Bonnie & Clyde, Eisgekuehlter Bommerlunder, Disco in Moskow, and whatever couple CDs I'm currently favoring - Depeche Mode: Get the Balance Right, Love in Itself, New Life - Dire Straights: This Man's too Strong, Sultans of Swing, Telegraph Road, Once Upon a Time in the West - Yellow: A night at the Roxy - Alan Parsons: Tales of Mystery and Imagination (especially the first two cuts) - Saga: Don't be Late - Frankie Goes to Hollywood: everything, lol, it's all on one or two CDs anyway. Pleasuredome, Wasteland, and parts of Two Tribes - Joe Jackson: Stepping Out and the Big World CD (live concert recording, but with a dead silent audience, really big sound) I'll have to finish this later, but I had something like 20-25 CD with me when i auditioned the VT-2s in 1996/97. Musical tastes change over time, so this is a lot of fun to think about.
  6. Wow,in please ... Gotta learn about this karma thing sometime.
  7. I've set up an Amazon wish list where I would like to assemble a list of must have OCCD workshop/workbench equipment. Please feel free to laugh hardily at my first attempt since this is kind of like a Waffle House dishwasher assembling an equipment list for Chef Ramsey in Hell's Kitchen. Permalink: http://amzn.com/w/2W04HEQGGKY0H Help and constructive feedback would also be appreciated ... Just remember about all I know about flux is that when it harnesses 1.21 Gigawatts in a capacitor all kinds of cool stuff happens!
  8. Oops one more Noob question: What's the easiest way to post/link pictures. I've used google docs as a storage place, but the had to set permissions and click here and there to get a link to copy into the forums BBC(?) code. There's got to be something easier and less painful. P.S. I'm a Hackintosh user now if that helps (windows only solutions won't really help that much if I have to install Parallels and an old WinXP and do 30 hrs of upgrades and reboots before I can use it, ... Sorry venting, my dad has a couple things he has to do in Windiws and I am the lucky sys admin for anything technical at their house)
  9. Thanks all! Just wish I'd read up a little more in the TFM-35 before buying it. For $280 though from a local buyer it will at least fare well as a computer speaker amp (hehe, after all is said and done that could actually happen). Of course I didn't really know yet at the time just how far I was going to go in two weeks. Good thing Carver doesn't make pre-processors with HDMI switching ... And the first person that mentions Sunfire: may he be cursed with a thousand crusty leaky caps in his amps ... Don't ever feed/tempt the addiction!!! At least the Sunfires are out of my casual spending, hide it from the wife, but it would be mostly OK if she knew budget.
  10. That Carver Derangement Disorder (CDD) really hit me the past two weeks. I'm in desperate need of a 12-step program or a bigger budget ... It all started with my happy little HT systems in the movie room and bedroom (it's CA, they make the bedrooms larger than the first few apartments I rented). My NHT VT-2s were being bi-amped with a 7x150 or so HT amp and a TFM-15cb I'd owned for many years. Then I got the strange idea of seeing what this mono bridging stuff was all about and moved the TFM-15 up to my home built sub in the bed room. that was nice and all, but now I had to use two more channels from the HT amp as sub channels. For god only knows what reason I decided to search for Carver and then also NHT on EBay and Craigslist. Talk about a butterfly fluttering it's wings in Gibraltar and a Cat 5 hurricane of CDD in my house. I found a great second set of NHT VT-2s another NHT center and two NHT bookshelf speakers and now needed more amps (never mind that may not be 100% true as my old receiver might just barely have had me covered). Then I found a great deal on a TFM-35 on Craiglist and really started feeling the fever (DIY too electronics since the light bulbs were out). I also never had a house this big before and didn't realize just how much power you need to play the stereo loud enough in one corner to be able to still hear it in another corner of the house. In the meantime a my more mundane research OCD kicked in and I started a slow but steady march towards M500 and above with the mkII mods in mind. Next thing you know I get a M500 real cheap non-working, but no biggie since $300 and a few months turn it into Godzilla or something. Well, then in true Chevy Chase or Rodney Dangerfield fashion, I find out Rich no longer works on M500s unless they have a "t" after the trailing 0. Oh well, CDD is in full gear ... Let's see where it takes us. Not to be deterred and freshly retired from the military I had way too much time available. Several auctions and way too much computer time later I found a M4.0t in FL Through the Canuckaudio site (yeah, that sounds weird to me too), but that one was just too easy to pick up. Then I found a M0.5t. These seem to be exceedingly rare and are not M500 rebadged beasts. No luck getting the 0.5 and the price was under $150, so I was kind of bummed. As I was just about to spring for a decent M1.5t I scanned the new listings and scored the two M1.0ts for $600. Please Rich ... Don't tell me you no longer work on those either ... :-) ... Although that would be in keeping with my kind of luck. As of today I'm running the new VT-2s on the TFM-35 straight from the audio out of an elevation dock for an iPhone. While that's pretty cool, I have to believe there are better DAC solutions for iPhone or computer streaming. Can't wait to try out the 1.0 and 4.0 bad boys on my leakers and hen maybe in some kind of biased fashion. What's next: - a solemn oath to try really hard not to buy any more amps for a while - a multi night stay at a Holiday Inn Express before attempting any DIY M500 trouble shooting. The military might have engrained mission completion in me, but as a software guru I'm going to need all the help I can get with any type of hardware work. One night makes you an expert according to the TV commercials, but fom where I'm starting, I think 5 nights will get me to the point of not electrocuting myself within the first five minutes. LOL Is there possibly anybody in SoCal who might be willing to help get me started on the path? Some kind of over the shoulder Carver amp repair for Dummies maybe? My call sign is Hibernator and I am a Carver addict!
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