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GM and hi everyone! Very cool site. I recently added Carver TFM24 a month ago and love it! I have cobbled together a hybrid audio and home theater. My Carver driving older Polk RTA 11T as my fronts and Marantz 6012 for my NHTs with for surround - I Tested it as best I could at the time testing each ch with a speaker. I notice my power indicator light 1 (the bottom one) works. it lights but none of the signal lights from (LED 2 up to 7 don't light up) on the vertical LED's. I welcome any suggestions- regardless of what I am playing audio or action movies LEDs do not change ... Looking to see if I am not pushing it or are they just shot and can I replace them if they are? Not the only reason I am here but that is what led me to the site. - just found your site yesterday and am looking forward learning and checking out the various threads. Thanks!

Pablo Cruise Whatcha' Gonna Do

Jimmy Buffet Margaritaville

Leo Sayer You Make Me Feel Like Dancing

Thanks for the welcome. The Carver equipment I currently have : 900 Receiver, C1 Preamp, M-4.0t Amp, TFM-22 Amp. Just got the TFM-22 in exchange for some service work. It functions but I need to do Service Bulletin #TFM-22-1 work .

Robben Ford, Two Shades of Blue was released on March 27, 2026. "The initial plan for guitarist Robben Ford’s first solo studio album in about five years was supposed to be a tribute to Jeff Beck. But a move to the UK changed direction for what became ‘Two Shades of Blue,’ released March 27. The title references not just the locations (London and Indiana) and different musicians used to support jazz, blues, soulful singer/songwriting guitarist Ford (ex-Tom Scott’s LA Express, Yellowjackets and others), but how his approach to the blues genre is wider and more inclusive than most." You can read the rest of the review here...

Pat Metheny, Side Eye III+ was released on February 27, 2026. "The greatest musicians have a distinct, instantly recognizable sound. That’s hardly news, but it’s an important notion to keep in mind when discussing Pat Metheny. As the guitarist cruises through his sixth decade as a professional music maker, his vibe remains essentially the same as it did in the first. The music he writes always uses sixties jazz guitar (think Jim Hall and Joe Pass) as its foundation, but adds structures derived from folk music, Brazilian music, seventies singer/songwriter pop, and non-bombastic progressive rock, decorating them all with other sounds he comes across and digs. His electric guitar tone is one of the most easily discernable in music: clean, warm, expertly picked, able to run up and down the fretboard at high speed, but more likely to choose the right note at the right time. His production style cuts through the processed haze that engulfs so many other albums, while still taking advantage of studio magic when it makes sense. This is a musician you clock within seconds of hearing a few notes." You can read the rest of the review here...

Vance Thompson, Lost and Found was released on January 16, 2026. "For several years, Vance Thompson's career as a musician hung in the balance. Owing to a neurological disorder known as Focal Dystonia, the Grammy-nominated trumpeter and founder of the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra was literally unable to blow his own horn. But unlike other people who may have thrown in the towel or called it a day, Thompson instead looked for an alternative, set his mind and body to work and learned to play a second instrument, namely the vibraphone. The fruits of Thompson's transformation are evident on the suitably named Lost and Found, recorded in August 2024 with four of his longtime friends and colleagues: guitarist Steve Kovalcheck, pianist Taber Gable, bassist Tommy Sauter and drummer Marcus Finnie. Together they glide easily through a half-dozen of Thompson's tantalizing original compositions and others by Chick Corea ("Bud Powell") and Donald Brown ("My Three Suns") before closing with a lovely reading of Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg's classic "Over the Rainbow."" You can read the rest of the review here...