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Welcome from Virginia! Enjoy your stay!

Welcome to TCS!

Hello halfWave and welcome to thecarversite.com from your neighbor to the east, SWMO. Glad you found us! There are a few threads here regarding the C4000 and the 4000t. We have the service manual for the C4000 located here: https://thecarversite.com/manuals/mandir/Carver C-4000 Service Manual.pdf Hopefully that will help you get your pre better than new.

Hello all, I just joined today after stumbling onto this site. While I wasn't intending to look up Carver audio equipment today one link led to another and one hour later hear I am signed up lol. I have a Carver C4000 I bought new in 1980 (# 3593C). It still works fine and I use it with Hafler amplifiers to drive a pair of Infinity Q2 speakers. I did have a Carver M-400 back in the day but sold it to a friend. Who still has it. Its probably time to consider cleaning and recapping the C4000. Maybe add any later modifications if that is possible. So I'll look around at the manuals and forum posts. I'm in no rush this moment. Of course any suggestions are also welcome!

Hall & Oates The Very Best Of (Album)

Prince & The Revolution Let's Go Crazy

The Romantics Talking In Your Sleep

My daily dose. The Rippingtons, Topaz (album)

Ditto

I saw a PBS show with The Dukes of September. It may have been Austin City Limits. They played each others hits. It was a great show.

The Pointer Sisters Jump (For My Love)

Duran Duran The Reflex

Cyndi Lauper Girls Just Want To Have Fun

Cream Sunshine Of Your Love (LIVE)

My daily dose. The Rippingtons, Black Diamond (album)

I just thought of this for a reason I can't even remember 😕

Maybe you can do this as a start. Purchase a Receptacle Tester sim to this item. As you can see from the legend it will give you a good indication of the wiring status of the receptacle you plug it into. Having a Receptacle Tester I think is a must to have in your tool bag for a start.

You know what they say... Patience is a virtue. I did get a response! And they must be swamped. I'm scheduled for November. Anybody have an idea on mitigating the transformer hum in the meantime? I did read somewhere that one user found that rotating the plug 180 degrees reduced their hum, but my plug is an AC polarity plug and only goes in one way. Was the inverting m-1.0t have a non-polarity AC plug?

@Keyman69, Quoting descriptions from another member Dominic, @zumbini, How we got to the different versions of the PM-1.5... "fan failures were common in early PM-1.5s". These amps were recalled and repaired and the revised amp sold as the PM-1.5a / PM-1200." "The PM-1200 and it's predecessor the PM-1.5 are basically an M-1.5 with larger output devices, balanced inputs and fan cooling. Should be no surprise that they sound alike." We love repair threads..., and lots of pictures. Consider posting yours in the Amp forum! 😉 others may benefit, and yet others, may chime in with help.

Welcome, @Keyman69, glad you found us. Also, to support your project, be sure to download the service manual. The Carver PM 1.5 has two incarnations..., the second to address issues in the first version - both are good - but the reading will help identify which you have, and how to proceed. Check out these two Service Manuals as your proceed.

@sea, here on The Carver Site, may not check here daily - but can also be found via a DM on Facebook, look for "Ed Atkins" Super great guy, and is the only go-to for ribbon repair for Carver amazings that has the correct jigs required to re-assemble them, holding the powerful magnets in place..., it's not possible to reassemble without the jigs.

Just bought Boards of Canada new album Inferno .

Thanks for the offer. We love it when people help to build and maintain the complete development of the library. If the copy you purchased is cleaner than the scan we have on file, in the locationed indicated below in the image, we're always happy to improve the library too - some of our scans are not perfect - this one looks pretty good - but do a quick eyeball check to compare with the one you picked up. If it's better, we'd love a clean scan. Thank you for offering it up to improve the library!