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Greeting gentlepeople. Hey, thanks for the welcome. First off, don't get to excited, I'm likely to one of those drive-by members. Have to admit, the Carver that I now own seems rather low on the Carver list (a CT-7 and TFM-25) and serve basement repair bench listening system. Then a couple of units coincidentally came in at the same time for repair. First on the bench is a m-200t with no output whatsoever. Two other units, from a friend at work. a C1 I think and a tuner. Honestly not sure of #'s because I can't read the lettering on those grey units - my eyes don't work as well as they used to. I have a pic that I'll attach, you guys will know right away. I'm just not familiar with Carver stuff. So I'm mostly a Marantz guy, have been for quite awhile. Love to pair my vintage Marantz with the vintage Klipsch speakers. I've had some nice systems in the past but of course, change things up on a regular basis and have also sold a good chunk of my stuff just to make room.... for more! HA! The pic of the equip in for repair is on another PC, but here's the stuff I got from a recently divorced woman... The story behind the CT7 and TFM25 was I saw an ad on CL simply titled "Stereo - must go now". That's always interesting (Note that I do NOT spend much time on CL - but do check occasionally and am not afraid to buy) so I emailed her and she said she was just divorced and her husband left this stereo behind, and she wanted it gone NOW. Well, I was loaded up on amps\pre\tuners at home but I did want the speakers she had - Klipsch ForteII's. She wanted $100 for the lot of it, said it was taking up room in the closet. So I beat feet over there but was too late for the speakers. Did I lose out to another person from CL, me not being far away, rushing over there within minutes!>?? Huh? Nope, it was her son. He snagged the speakers! Dingit! Grrrr. Well, she was willing to give me the Carver stuff for $50. I paid her the $100 that I brought and took the two Carver units home (er, untested, not my style normally - but dingit, she was just divorced and happy to be so. My age, kinda perky, Ithink I was influenced). Thankfully, they both work OK, although a visual inspection shows some hot spots on the board. But I've done nothing to those two units. Oh, RCA's on the back flakey I think (or the cheap cables I use) but works OK. Oh! My technical background - I wired a garage once! Ha, joking. 2 years of local college electronics a long time ago, worked as residential electrician for a few years, that sucked. Back to school for BA in Robotics, that landed me a gig with a company that Siemens eventually bought. So, I work for Siemens in the building automation division, I'm a senior (that means I'm old) System's Engineering Specialist. Which means that I'm not an engineer but have played one on TV. Since my electronics knowledge didn't help at work, but I do like fussing with teh stuff, I set up a simply repair bench in my basement a few years ago. I kept aquiring more Marantz vintage that needed help, and at first took it to local tech who has worked for a old-school local audio shop. He did a pretty good job, and prices were OK, but... I wanted better. And I knew I could do better (oops, am I bragging? No, any of us can do better with our own units - the whole time, love, ect thing). So, bench downstairs with usual Rigol scope, signal gen, DC variable, DBT, test stereo, big iron, nice controllable iron, multiple flukes, fridge with beer, pipe with... OK, OK, kidding! For most of that. Heh. Have successfully repaired multiple units - nearly all my own, except for a few friends. I do not repair for money, do not advertise, nothing - heck, I'm an amatuer (gah, all this with no speel cheek?) and so barely can understand some circuits - like this m-200t - there's stuff in there that I don't understand. OK, that's one beer's worth of typing, so we're out of time. Sorry for spelling, and I'll talk to you guys later. I think I'll spend some time here and learn about the two units I own - I think maybe time to upgrade them (such good knowledge here makes that easy!). signed up mostly because of the m-200t that came to me.

It's time to put this baby to press and production. Here's the suggested rules: - Everyone gets 5 picks from the list. - You can use more than one of your votes for a track. - Mark the track as R for reference disc or O for other - Any track changes or substitutes have to be made by the first person that suggested the original track. Saturday Feb 4th at 12 midnight west coast time all voting ends. I will count the votes Sunday and post the results for a final list. When listing you vote use the format of track #, number of votes, and (other).R (reference) or O (other). Track Song Artist Album 1 Children of the Sun Billy Thorpe Children of the Sun 2 Cocaine Blues Lonnie Mack 3 Devil In Jesus Eric Burdon Till the Rivers Run Dry 4 Double Trouble Stevie Ray Vaughn Couldn't Stand the Weather 5 ELP Benny the Bouncer 6 Fearless Pink Floyd Meddle 7 From the Beginning Emerson Lake & Palmer Trilogy 8 Gypsy's Wife Leonard Cohen Recent Songs 9 Hotel California The Eagles Hell Freezes Over 10 I Can't Give Everything Away David Bowie Blackstar 11 Jaco Jonas Hellborg Bass 12 Johnny Lee's Mood Backbone Slip 13 Long May You Run The Stills-Young Band Long May You Run 14 Man in the Long Black Coat Bob Dylan Oh Mercy 15 Memphis Monday Morning Bobby Blue Bland 16 On the Border The Eagles On the Border 17 Piano Concerto #1 Emerson Lake & Palmer Works Volume 1 18 Queen of the Wrecking Ball Candye Kane 19 St. Louis Blues Pete Fountain 20 Take it Easy The Eagles 21 Taking It Home Stanley "Buckwheat Zydeco" Doral Gone but not forgotten 22 The Hurricane Bob Dylan 23 The Pepperland Suite George Martin In My Life 24 Thunder and Birdies Flim & the BB's Tricycle 25 Tin Pan Alley Stevie Ray Vaughn Couldn't Stand the Weather 26 Toccata Emerson Lake & Palmer Welcome Back My Friends 27 Too Close Alex Clare 28 Under Pressure David Bowie & Queen Hot Space 29 Until I'm Dead and Cold B B King Indianola Mississippi Seeds 30 Walk a Thin Line Fleetwood Mac Tusk 31 Water Under The Bridge Pshychodots Pshychodots 32 Why Can't You Behave Cole Porter The Porter Project 33 You want it Darker Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker

Scored this original pressing yesterday in mint condition!

And another welcome. This is the first time I've seen a post measured in "a beer's worth" of writing..., and truth be told, the site is getting an overhaul, as the current environment has some shakeyness..., you got that hole "beer's worth" of writing done with out a crash. You are a good omen! Welcome !

This is a cornerstone project of TheCarverSite! I cherish the first Reference CD, and look forward to this one. I enjoyed watching the suggestion thread - which I respect other's taste and selection of music, over my own wierd taste. Having said that, I'd like to make a contribution to cover the project's CD duplication and distribution postage. do we have a mechanism/fund for that?

My first recap was an M-1.5t. I'm just an electronics hobbyist but I did not find it very difficult. I removed the large filter caps to work on the power supply board and stood the amp on one end to do the amp cards