Zoom

Very nice clean setup. 

Welcome to Carversite, sir.  

That 500 has to sing with that clean analog signal.  

Name the rock group,

one was assassinated, 

three died of natural causes.  

Wait for it

Mount Rushmore.  

??

Thanks very much for the legwork, sir.  

I also learned a ton about digital to analog processing here at Carversite, the weakest link in my system at the time.   

This does beg the question, what streams /stores the best resolution digital and what can be some restrictions (including even network / home WiFi routers etc.)

I will also add this to my followed threads.

Thanks again.  

I so love Xanadu.   

What’s old is new again.

Everything stated in your last post is spot on. You seem to be on exactly the right track.  

While the 200 isn’t a power house, it will indeed handle brief transients easily with minimal clipping.  

 I loaded mine at near 3 ohms for hours on end.  The headroom obviously isn’t great at that load, so I monitored it pretty carefully, but it never let me down and only shut down thermally maybe once or twice a year.  

I wouldn’t worry about the initial power up.  

I own 2 M-200t amps.

 One was my first Carver. 

I beat the hell out of that amp for 10 years at obscene loads before I started seriously building and it has never let me down.

Ever.  No joke.

 It was the sole reason I based my system around Carver.  

If it was stored clean and dry you should have no issues. 

Clean the external connections with some isopropyl alcohol.  

Make sure you have a clean source. 

Enjoy.

 And we do like pictures.

Welcome to Carversite. 

Excellent thread with our leader clearing up myths in layman’s terms.  I could reread this for another hour.  

I do know this.  I have a 1.0t. I have a 500t. Both unmodded and needing freshening. 

Most here know I’m pretty fussy about signal quality and interconnects (so take that out of the equation). 

I can’t understand without some kind of separate segregated circuit how Mr Carver does it.  But if Greg says it doesn’t exist I believe him.  

And my 500 is on my critical listening rig. It’s a smoother, slightly richer, more even sounding amplifier.  

?

‘I don’t know why she swallowed the fly....’

I live in GR.  

I can pick up and ship to you if you need help. Let me know any known markings or  I can snap pictures of them for you if needed.  

Do you have his address ? I’d rather not Get in the middle of a dispute but will gladly pick up and ship.

PM me if necessary. 

Mods has my personal info since 2013 or before.   Gosh time flys. 

Woops.  I just noticed how old this thread was. 

Hi all

 

I am also new to this site and have enjoyed reading.

 

I was deep into Hi-Fi over thirty years ago until I returned home from work one evening finding all of my equipment except for my collection of vinyls stolen. I swore at that time I would carry my vinyls around and never play them until I was able to set up some respectable equipment. Well, short story made longer, I took a plunge and set up the following:

 

Music Hall 9.1 turntable with the stock Goldring Eroica LX cartridge

Carver C1 preamplifier

Two Carver M400t amplifiers driving a pair of Klipsch RF-82 speakers in a Bi-Amp configuration.

 

I handcrafted 30 AWG 99.9999% pure silver interconnects between all components except the speakers using only pure cotton as insulators/dielectrics. I calculated a total cable capacitance between the turntable and preamplifier of 2.4 pf - 2.7 pf. The turntable interconnects are 'loosely' a twisted pair with a two inch diameter core. This resulted in a single twist for the entire length. Initially, I had no twist on the turntable interconnects and experience both hum and noise. The single twist canceled all of the hum and noise.

 

I used four runs of twisted plenum CAT5, one run for each speaker terminal from each of the M400t's to each connector on each speaker. This gives me an effective 15AWG between each amplifier terminal and each speaker connector.

 

 Welcome, Mark!!

Wow, I like this guy ^^^^ the attention to detail intrigues me.  Like Paul stated, we like pics, and starting a new thread is welcome, you will get full access to many more forum threads after a couple posts.

 I feel you pain about the theft.  I built a monster car audio system of seperates in the late 80s early 90s that got ripped off along with my entire music collection.  I had it along with me after a weekend party.  It took me years to recover from that one.

You are obviously into nice clean accurate sound, so I have a question is about your C-1.  There are many threads here about modding it especially the phono section.  How long have you had it?

 

 

 

 

Hush you.

 

n00bs are fun because we know just enough to get in trouble. So by default we're adding excitement. *nods*

 

Seems you're already on the fast-track to the Sandbox my dear...   

 

Don't do that, Jim's in there.

 

I just heard the echoes from the throes of the sand box....somethin' about a Party Barn.....

 

It seems I'm a bit late to the Party, ma'am.  Greetings and Welcome, Ms. Raven, from just south of you in GR.  

 

Greg and I chatted the first few weeks I started here and he is one of the reasons I stayed.  

 

There is something amazing going on here, the more you see the more you will agree.  Some of the most creative, opinionated, generous, free thinking people you will know.  

 

Once again, welcome to Carversite. 

FARTS. I like it.

"Hey, I really like FARTS on these woofers....."