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Hello my name is Boris I am from the Netherlands, but live momentarily on Curaçao. I looked for some time on this forum, to see all those nice Carver gear. for my self I own some Carver gear too, tree M500 amplifiers, that I sought and bought online, in broken condition that I repaired and upgraded to mk2 condition. and two C1 that I upgraded to Bill D specification. The M500 amplifiers I use to drive my Vandersteen 2ci loudspeakers, I use 2 in mono block configuration to drive the midsection, and one amplifier to drive the high section of the loudspeakers

Hi, I'm a lifetime lover of Carver gear and have owned many pieces of gear over the last 35 years. I'm an electrical engineer by trade and these days mostly write software to support hardware design on high speed router asics and the latest DDR memories.

I was stationed at Curaçao when I was in the Navy. Moved later back, because a company offered me a contract as a computer technician, after a while I decided to stay on the island, and work as a independent technician. below a picture of my gear, it’s a collection of equipment that I collected over the years. (I left the red Led’s in the C1’s because I like them more, than the blue, people use now a days) My latest addition is a Kyocera DA-910 CD player, that I hooked up with my Carver gear. And I must say, i am really impressed with this combination.

That conrad-johnson EV-1 phono preamp showed up today and what an upgrade from the Jolida. You can't really review a component in a vacuum but this mated up so well with the other stuff this stereo finally sounds the way I wanted it to. There's more depth, more detail, it's tonally balanced so it's not too lush or too strident, dynamics are there if the piece requires it, it just really complemented the rest of the system. I could never get that turntable to sound quite right and the culprit was the Jolida. How this would match with somebody else's system I can't say but

Ever since that Rega Saturn showed up I've been listening to primarily CD-Rs I burn from albums. I put an actual album on and decided that the Jolida JD-9 phono preamp is probably the weak link so... Here is a sexy black rectangular box and the guts (should be here next week) unless FedEx totally screws up like they're prone to doing:

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Thanks everyone for the kind words. Will try to place some pictures, but still struggling with that 😬. yes I brought all my gear with me, did not bring much when I moved to Curaçao, only my stereo equipment, records. Tapes, CD’s books and my tools. Audio equipment is something, that was fascinating too me when I was a child and it still does. specially vintage gear, did never loose its magic too me.

Thanks for the welcome. Just been perusing the site.

Guys, and Gals..., Please put some good prayer vibes out for our friend Barry..., He's going through Chemo hell..., not fun. Needs our thoughts and prayers. All we have.

Watched this from Amazon Studios, last night. slow at first, but once you settle in, it unfolds..., having gone through similar things the main character goes through, both literally and figuratively (not for writing down here)..., this movie kept me up most of the night thinking about it, and reliving my own casket-side experience. One can and likely will pick up widely varying and different messages - depending on your perspective and experience. I do think it is worth watching, if nothing else, to get more people thinking, who have forgot. Starring Steve Carell, Laurence Fish

I just remembered, the fellow who runs the conrad-johnson forum was one of the first guys to modify the Jolida JD-9 and he sent me a link to parts and whatnot. Okay, I can do that and then I started pricing caps and op amps and decided this is stupid, it looks like around $400 for a bag of parts to dink around with so just bite the bullet and buy something more upscale and get it over with.

It should be here Wednesday, I'm looking forward to hearing it. I think it'll be a good match with the CJ-5 and Ortofon 2M Black cartridge. The fellow I'm getting it from used it for a bit, bought a different (more expensive) c-j phono stage and kept this as a back up. He put in new tubes, played it for a few hours to make sure it worked okay and to me it comes. I would have preferred a gold face but the one on eBay was too beat up and has a duff tube, one I was looking at on Usaudiomart was gone so black will be fine. I'll hang onto the Jolida as I'll

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Barry, you are the awesomest friend!

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I think Real Tree has a name for that pattern..., not Mossy Oak, but some pattern they sell to the Military, 😉

Pics are a little late but the ham was awesome. So juicy and smokey.

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Good piano.

I'm listening to the sounds of 1984.... on the medium I had at that time. That's right- cassette tape. Believe it or not, it doesn't sound too bad. Even without the Dolby Noise Reduction turned on, lol.

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I am really enjoying the expansive sound I'm getting from the C-1/M-500 combination. To continue to improve I have also added 2 elements to my system: a Furman power conditioner and a BlueSound Node. The Furman did help and made my house power very quiet, with the benefit of surge protection. But the BlueSound Node is the real star addition and performer. I am seriously impressed. But, I tweaked it some more... I also added Tidal, even though I have been listening to Amazon music and was happy with that. I got the Premier version on trial (but I've already decided I'm keeping it), and

Welcome Boris, we are glad your here!

WOW! @boris279, you are going to fit right in here! WELCOME WELCOM WELCOME !! You have gear many of us have, or have had. Please post pictures. Do you have the gear with you in Curaçao? Having your Carver Gear can prevent homesickness ! So I've come to understand. When you get a chance, post a picture of your gear! We love pictures. Welcome, glad you found us!

Wishing Barry a speedy recovery!

Yeah it's been there since we started using this new theme. Leaderboard doesn't work because we don't have awards installed yet. The dev is still working on it.

I own one and it is about my 20th amp over the years. I worked in audio in the 80's and I've heard many more. There is nothing dry or grainy about this amp. Carver haters usually have not actually heard one. Mine has been serviced properly by a Carversite tech. I bought it non-functioning. I've also owned a pair of Carver 9t monoblocks and several other Carver amps. Here is the scoop, it excels in all of the typical amplifier jargon for sound quality like "soundstage, bottom end, sparkle" etc. The Sig 600 is the cats meow. There is nothing I can criticize about it other than it has no power s

Well, opinions in audio don't mean that much...we like what we like. The Sunfire 600 is a tremendously powerful amplifier and I think they sound amazing. There just aren't many speakers you can throw at it that you couldn't drive with ease. They're good on horns and ribbons. They use the Downtracking Converter as a power supply, which is better than the Magnetic Field power supply in terms of efficiency. The Silver 7t/9t's are just as formidable and sound just as sweet. I honestly couldn't choose between the Carver monoblocks or the Sunfire - they're both in the same l

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Oh … and congratulations on the Conrad Johnson 😎

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Here's a Carver CT-28v Owner's Manual. Carver CT-28v Owner Manual.pdf

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