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Just a quick hello from a fellow Carver enthusiast. At the present time I have a CT-7, CT-3, CT-17, and a TFM-35x (on its way back from Nelion Audio).

Greetings, I joined a few weeks ago when I recognized that this is a great resource to all things Carver. I friend from High School gave me a TFM-45 she was clearing out of her garage that she no longer uses. She is was a tech long ago and this was her personal amp. Shortly after hooking up the amp, I wanted to source a Carver preamp to drive it with. My Harmon Kardon Citation 17 did not seem to drive the TFM-45 as much as I know it should. So after a reasonable search, I found that the C-1 looked to be a good fit for the features I needed it a preamp. So down the rabbit hole I go. It sound great. Drive the JBL L150s very well. I found a Carver SD/A-360 CD player that was being sold to parts cheap, and I know enough to be willing to open it up and see what I can find. Turns out one of the belts turned into a puddle of black goo. That is all clean up, now to find a replacement belt. So my question is, does anyone know the belt sizes of both of the belt? The service manual only listed a carver part number. Not the size.

Thought I would poke around in here a bit. Been looking for a place to freshen up my old Sunfire Signature 600.2. This place seems promising!

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!

Just picked up my first Carver it is a 6250. I love restoring older vacuum tube radios and some "newer" 1970s and 80's electronics. Found it at one of my local thrift stores i get my old radios from and decided for $15 that I couldn't go wrong. I put it on my test bench and now shorts or smoked components. powers on. So I am here looking for the common failure points for this unit. I have found and downloaded the service manual already. can't wait until I can get it running as a daily driver.

Just a brief note of introduction. Been something of an audiophile beginning in the 70’s. I have had a bucket list item I have finally completed: I finally bought a Carver power amp! First of 2 or 3, possibly. This one is a Carver M-400t Cube. I will be matching it up with my Frankenstein speakers… which is to say I have Klipsch horns, the woofers to go with them, and plans for an open baffle hybrid speaker. The horns will be “unboxed” and in the open (they sound fantastic unleashed!!) while the bass woofer (and possibly a sub-woofer also) will be in a 6 cubic ft sealed box. The plans for the box are still unfinished, as I plan on boosting the base over that which Klipsch settled for. As part of my solution will be 2 passive radiators in the box. Potentially 12” woofers (from Heresy 2) a pair of subwoofers and passive radiators. Likely all 4 vertical sides occupied with bass production lol Having a Carver unit is participating in my own history, sort of lol I am hugely excited by it all.

As luck would have it, I just now placed an order with SDE out of England (Thin Lizzy in Atmos), and thought I’d share their message on tariffs -

Back in the day, Rick made "pucks" to place under our equipment and called them "Rizers". Some were solid and used to lift the equipment up to allow better airflow, others were filled with sorbothane to help absorb shock under equipment. They came in a couple of thickness' or height. I have many rizers and they are under most of my equipment. They are the silver pucks under my 275's and under the Cinema Grand in the pics.

Have some Carver equipment on its way. TFM-25 and a non-working M-1.5t. Might try my hand at restoring the M-1.5t on my own vs sending to Nelion. Curious if Nelion would sell the restore (and upgrade) parts to me? Anyone know? Researching preamps now. I’ve got a smattering of Adcom amps and preamps and McIntosh stuff too.

Not new, but I've been away for a long time. I have a C-9 that Rich gave to me many years ago, but I'm not using it anymore. I'd be happy to donate it back to the forum, if you have any use for it.

I am looking to see if anyone knows an easy way to get the tweeters working on the carver amazing speakers. I think i have tje silver series as I have four woofers in each and a single ribbon tweeter.

Hello everyone, I am a retired electronics design engineer who designed mostly digital and embedded microprocessor designs with a smattering of some analog circuits along the way. The Carver PM-1.5 is quite the challenge. I bought it many years ago and it worked well until the large power supply capacitors failed. I replaced them and it worked for quite a while longer and failed some years ago. I removed the dual power supply caps and found they had failed which is at least part of the problem. Now I am looking at sourcing replacements for them ( I have seen the EBAY replacement board with 4 caps), but I will probably make my own. Then I will see what else is wrong with it if I am able to . I appreciate any suggestions along the way. Especially how I can isolate my digital oscilloscope so I can use it to safely view wave-forms should I get that far. I have a Variac specially for this, but have never had the issue of needing to also isolate a 'scope to make measurements. Ways to do that would be greatly appreciated and thanks ahead of time if any one out there has the way.

Hello all, hope everyone is well. Long time CARVER owner { SD/A-360 (sold), M-1.5T ( MKII - the works ), M-1.5t (pending forwarding for the works), SD/A390t ( pending refresh/updating) }. One time CARVER Manufacturer's Rep. employee - Atlantic Canada circa 1988. I have 2 questions regarding my 390t: 1. What make and model of base and transport is it based off of? 2. Is anyone aware of a Canadian ( US notwithstanding ) service shop qualified to do a top-notch refresh/update on this unit? Thanks in advance. Best Regards. Murray SMITH Port Williams, NS, CA.

Sample Carverfest t-shirt has arrived, and it's not too shabby....(pay no attention to the elderly man modeling it...he's kind of an attention hog from what I understand). I'm working on a few other options for Carverfest, too. Thanks to those of you who have given me more ideas. An online 'store' will be provided soon where you can order yours .....along with a lot of other "fun" Carver and Audio related merch I've imagined. I'm using a 3rd party ("Printify.com") to handle all the making, selling, distributing of the shirts. Costs will be low. Any proceeds above the store costs will all go toward supporting the operating costs of the Carver Site. Stay tuned :).

I do not believe that any of the new (within the last 2 years) tariffs have had any effect on media. I regularly order from SDE out of the UK, and from another outlet in Germany, and have paid zero tariffs. Shipping isn’t cheap (it never has been), but no tariff impact whatsoever.

Boney James With Cory Henry & Marcus Miller Slow Burn (Album)

I am a tech but have not worked on an Auto correlation preamp. Just finished recap and other general service to a 4000 series two. I have the service manual but cannot find a user manual. The 4000 user is readily accessible but can’t seem to locate the series two. Any guidance appreciated.

Good to hear from you. I suggest that the C-9 be put up for auction and that the funds are used for the site. Pretty great that you know the source from where this came.

Hi all, New to site, was actually in search of an owners manual or service manual for Carver car audio xeq-15 Pro Graphic Equalizer "The Board". One of the 2 has static and popping coming from it when eq is engaged, can't hear music at all. But when bypassed plays music fine. Was checking to see if anyone has a owners or service manual they wouldn't mind sharing. Thanks, Jt

I haven’t built them yet, the hybrid open baffles. I have only assembled some parts to get an idea of the sound I can expect. The mock ups sounded amazing. I will certainly post pics of the finished product. I will likely also post some progress pics.

If you run across Alice Cooper's autobiography, Me, Alice, buy it without hesitation. There was only one printing that I'm aware of, and even a tattered copy can fetch $500 or more on ebay. An autographed copy with the jacket can fetch $3K or more. I have a perfect copy with the jacket (no autograph) that my brother bought for $3 at a used book store.

Pura Vida Stylie

Real Love Beach Fly

My daily dose The Rippingtons, True Stories (album)

Some morning piano, Lola Astanova, October Daydream

BlackBerry Smoke Be Right Here (Album)

Take Me Higher And Higher Burning Babylon

My daily dose. The Rippingtons, Fountain Of Youth (album)

Four Tet Three (Album)

Thom Rotella Band, Without Words (album)

My daily dose. The Rippingtons, Built To Last (album)

Patricia Barber Cafe Blue (Album)

Picked up this Analog Productions release of Steppenwolf. Michael Framer gave it an 11 out of 10. It's really a good recording.

Yeah, the forum looks great. @AndrewJohn if you want to auction the C-9, that is fine with me. I can go ahead and send it to you for appraisal, or wait and send it to the buyer; it's entirely up to you. It is a nice-looking unit - nearly spotless. I don't know whether Rich did any internal mods. If he did, he never mentioned it.

I found this on Amazon Music; someone is digging very deep... John Kay & Steppenwolf Move Over

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.

Not sure why I like this theme so much. Hearing Grusin's take on it last night made it a pleasant ear worm. Soooooooo, I thought I would play the original...

Grusin and The Rippingtons: Two of my fave GRP artists.

Its a Grusin kind of night...

Welcome to the Carver site. link to the file, download and find the belt size for your 360 or 390?

My daily dose. The Rippingtons, Built To Last (album)

Ray Obiedo, Slight Accent was released on May 1, 2026. "Oakland, California-based guitarist and composer, Ray Obiedo has produced an album that’s simmering hot and spicy. It mixes Latin energy and contemporary jazz together in a rich musical stew. These arrangements and compositions tickle the taste buds and please the listener’s palate." You can read the rest of the review here...

Hello everyone, I picked up a broken Carver 2000 and have made progress on repairing it. The current challenge is white noise out of the Left Channels. I cleaned both speaker relays but the static continues. I checked for bad solder joints and everything looks good. Any tips on what I can try next?

Dave Koz The Dance (Album)

Just got this yesterday. Magnificent sounding. A little bit on the grunge side but that's where things were in 1994. Don't remember Neil Young running his mouth as much back then.

Hi Giggity and welcome to thecarversite.com. Glad you found us! I don't think Nelion sells upgrade kits, but one of our members, @Circuits & Conceptssells all sorts of parts and other items through his ebay store. You can find it here: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trkparms=folent%3Acircuitsandconcepts|folenttp%3A1&_trksid=p3542580.m47492.l71970&_ssn=circuitsandconcepts I hope that helps.

I don't know why....but this song has always spoken to me. I was reminded of that when I picked up some new vinyl today... Speaking in Tongues. It's a very simple song, musically. Until today (when I actually decided to look up the lyrics and meaning), I'd always thought the song had some deep poetic meaning. It really doesn't. It's just a love song. But, it persists as one of the Talking Heads best ever. David Byrne still plays it as he tours. Sean Penn made a whole movie with the same title and the song included (and David Byrne is in the movie). I guess it spoke to a lot of people.

Ben Wolfe, Any Time After Now was released on May 15, 2026. "Bassist and composer Ben Wolfe has been a prominent fixture in the jazz scene for decades, his New York career stretching back to the mid-1980s. For Any Time After Now, he’s brought together a fresh ensemble and written music that serves the group rather than showcasing himself. Melody and atmosphere take precedence, and every player — vibraphonist Joel Ross, pianist Sullivan Fortner, tenor saxophonist Chris Lewis, drummer Aaron Kimmel — sounds like an essential color in the mix." You can read the rest of the review here...

That one and Curves Ahead are my favorites. Such great music. I can listen to the Ripps anytime.