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Drywall pics are good too! I didn't think anyone would respond to this thread. Now I think it's time to take one of the Nikons in the car and give up on the crappy phone camera. I see amazing cloud structures almost every day.

I lucked out, when we built this house we're in now it took me a half hour to commute to work in bumper to bumper. Then 2 years later they completed the Legacy Highway and it takes me ten minutes to get to work now, all highway cruising. And Legacy is about a quarter mile from my house.

Our commuting costs = $0.00. My office is in the basement, my wife’s office is upstairs. This started long before the COVID pandemic. Only once (so far) did she have to text me to turn the music down. 😁 Having one floor of separation is healthy. Extremely fortunate. Not very picturesque tho.

Here is my summer morning work ride attire

Hey Brian- Sorry to hear of your loss but happy that you are here with us. It's such a great group of guys. I wish that you all were in my town so we could meet up for beers and talk stereo and music. But I guess that's the reason for this great Carversite. Dale

Death Cab For Cutie I Will Possess Your Heart

Breaking Benjamin Far Away

Glad you did come back, @Bwest - you have my admiration for hanging in there as well as you are. I'm doing okay - I had a lot more time to "prepare" over all, and several months towards the end when she wasn't home any more, which meant it wasn't as . That said, what you describe about your feelings is absolutely 100% the same here. From everyone I know who have been through it, at least the first year is going to be rough, for sure. After that you hopefully start coming to terms with it, but, well, there really aren't any words - just know I get it, and nothing you feel is wrong - it all shows how much you cared, and still do. Feel free to PM me if you ever want to chat - I'm also happy to call and give you my number, though a heads-up I'm North of the border from you, so we I'm happy to put things on my nickel for calls - my long distance plan covers the US. :-) For now, keep putting one foot in front of the other, and know you were there through when it mattered most.

Here's another comparison analogy..., Digital photos, today, compared to the ViewMaster of our child hood. Of for some of us... I used to use one of these, to analyze stereo air photos, as a geologist when I got out of the university..., Up until the 80's, that's how the military looked at photogrammetry..., Now, with digital image processing, the missile silos, troop movement, geomorphology or ore deposits, are all identified by algorithms in the cloud. DARPA NET changed everything..., even the backbone for DARBEE with ethernet/WiFi feeds.

I'm so sorry @Bwest- having gone though essentially the same thing as you, in the same time frame (lost my wife the end of April), really I feel for you. The group, here were my saving grace. Someone, here will likely be able to get ahold of Mark for you. He had been bouncing around the country with travelling jobs for a bit. Good luck getting your friend's Polks patched up and singing, again. In the mean time, take care, and if you need someone to commiserate with, don't hesitate to get in touch.

Looking East Morning Evening

Crash Test Dummies Superman's Song

Thank you for accepting my application! I have been meaning to come here for several months now, as I was sent here by another member to read-up on the Carver C1, and a modification called the Bill D. Early last winter, I was selling a subwoofer on the local classifieds. I received a call within a few hours from a guy saying he was interested, but was about 45 minutes away, and couldn’t make it out for 2 days (Toole is about 1/2 hour from Salt Lake). I agreed to hold it for him, and he came out as promised 2 days later. When he got here, I had the sub hooked up to demonstrate, and we listened for a couple minutes to a disc set he brought that is actually from this very site. I was blown away by the tracks he played, and said as much. He insisted that I keep the CD set, as he said he had another. I love the set, and use it a lot. When we went to get the box for the sub, he saw my Polk SDA 2 speakers, and asked if they were for sale. When I said no, he asked why I wasn’t using them. I showed him that 2 of the speaker wire nuts were broken, and that I didn’t have the cable connecting the 2 speakers together any more. At his insistence, we removed the plates that hold the speaker nuts, and he methodically marked and removed all the wires. He said he could fix me up, and get my Polks back up and running, so I trusted him to take the plates. 2 weeks later, he was back at my house. He had replaced ALL or the speaker wire nuts with beautiful gold ones, AND made a new cable to connect the speakers together! He installed all of this, and helped me move the speakers into position. We (mostly him, as I am not up to too much of that any more) got everything hooked up, and I was speechless. That wonderful Polk sound I remembered was back! I have listened to them almost every day since. And on top of all that, he wouldn’t let me pay him for any of it - he said he already had all the parts, and it was an easy job. We talked a little bit about the Polk sound, and he said what if I told you there was an even greater audio genius than Mr Polk? That of course Mr Carver. He told me that Carver made the Polk SDA sound into his preamps instead of the speaker, so the effect could be used on many other speakers. So here I am, looking at the C1. I have a feeling this is going to be a fun place to visit, and I thank you again for accepting me. Brian

That "technology" is just as good today. I have an ancient issue of Starlog magazine from the 70s that shows how to get the 3D effect from a pair of adjacent photos by crossing one's eyes. The Viewmaster took care of that for the user, and the result was as good as the source material. Since those pictures were taken from 35MM masters, the results were usually very good. I still have mine, and they've got lush, deep color and they're very sharp. I could imagine that the same player with high def pictures would be amazing. Just for the sake of the discussion, I was a dealer for 3dX back in the early 90s, which used a sort of fresnel lens in a modified rear projection cabinet to split an image into two imperfectly aligning images which was then resolved with glasses similar to the Epcot 3D movies of the early days. My demonstrator system was installed on a Pioneer Elite RPTV of a substantial size. The effect was quite striking. Not 3D as you're used to, with the images reaching out of the telly in an exaggerated fashion, but rather what 3dX called "depth enhancement", where the scene suddenly had a realistic viewing depth. Particularly striking when one would watch an action movie. Where... would that spike go? That appears to be an old patent medicine treatment for people who couldn't stop looking at pictures of landmarks. Ah, the old stereo photos. Long before the Dolby ProLogic photos took over the market. Those were the days. Still not as muddled as the new generation Atmos photos, where you have photo information overhead. It makes complete muck of the viewing experience, I'm afraid. Eagle Eye, indeed.

Mark is going to call you. 😀

Dang dude! Toole is only about a half hour from me here in West Bountiful, Utah! Man it's great to have another Utahn in here. @69Chevelle is from up North in Syracuse along with @Daddyjt. Thought this was a new post, then realized it was an older revived posting. So sorry for your loss Brian.

Oppo. Don't look back.

It's on the rig in my HT, and the best analogy I can think of is, it's a video graphic equalizer. When I played around with it, all I could do was make the picture worse. Fortunately, I took a picture before I changed anything, so I could set it back to "flat." There may be an option to turn it off... I don't recall. When I fire up the TV, I'll bring up the Darbee settings page, take another pic, and post it here. It will probably be either very late tonight or tomorrow. Here's a link to the user manual. It has several mentions of Darbee, and on page 59 it starts going into more detail. http://download.oppodigital.com/BDP103/BDP-103D_USER_MANUAL_English_v1.2.2.pdf

As a side mention - would the proper answer to this be "= 3"? Asking for a mate. Yes I believe this player will be getting a healthy dose of grain spirits when I open it up and begin working on it. Techspray makes a fine 198 proof beverage that will really make it shine. I've spent some time researching the current generation of players and I've seen there's maybe 5 now that have analog audio. The next best thing would be to have an external DAC, as you say, but that means the player must have a 1.4 HDMI output in addition to a primary HDMI 2.0 output. Things have changed so much from when I started. The very first time I walked into my hifi store, I encountered an NEC S-VHS machine. Playing through a Proton monitor, I was astounded at the quality. Compared to today's pictures, it looks like viewing the world through a teething tot's toy binoculars.

Here's the back of the 105, and it has both RCA and XLR analog outputs.

John Fogerty The Old Man Down The Road

When I hired in, my commute was almost 2 hours. I did that for a year and had enough. Then I had a 30 minute drive. Now less than 10. Amazing how much money you can save from 2 hours to 10 minutes.

Shinedown How Did You Love

If it's still available, and in good shape, that's a great price.

One must add value wherever one goes. Leave the earth a better place once you've done with your particular bit of it, and so forth. Thank you for the review!

I have the Yamaha BD-S1065 BluRay player for my Home Theater setup and I like it. I have had it for several years, still works great. I like your stories Butcher, the entertainment value is priceless.......😀

Even though they have left the business, I can't sing the praises of oppo players enough. I have four of them. The top tier players 203, 205 have quadruped in price since oppo left the business. The 103, 105 are still affordable. You can get a 103 for about $400, and the 105 is moving up pretty fast. The 105s are getting to the $900-1K range. The 103 shares the analog RCA outputs for multi channel and stereo. The 105 has dedicated stereo outputs in both RCA and XLR. The oppo will play CD, sacd, DVD-a, DVD, blueray, mp3, flac, ogg, and many other digital formats. It has both cable and wireless network capabilities, some built in streaming apps, Netflix, Tidal, YouTube, and a few others. oppo still supports the players, and you can find out a lot more here: http://www.oppodigital.com Good luck with your search.

Howdy! Glad you’re here!

Hello Bwest. Welcome to the site. It’s quite an amazing and knowledgable group of folks here. I am also in Utah just up in Syracuse

Welcome!

Welcome aboard @Bwest!!! Glad to have another fellow Utahn aboard here. I'm not too far from you up here in West Bountiful. This is a terrific bunch of folks up in here and best of luck finding that BillD modded C1, they're something else. Turbo

Welcome Bwest. We're glad you're hear! A BillD modified C1 Is an excellent choice. So is a C-11, C-4000, or a 4000t. They're all great choices, and they can all be improved upon a great deal by some very talented folks that hang out here. How about posting some pics of your Polks and the rest of your gear in the Members Systems area? We like all kinds of audio gear, and we all like pics. So kick your shoes off, pop the top on your favorite beverage, turn it up to 11, and welcome aboard.

Welcome to the forum Sir. Glad to have you on board ......

Welcome! If you ever need help with anything on the site, please let me know. Good luck finding a C-1 for your beautiful system.

Welcome to Carversite, Polk and carver are a great combo! I have SDA-1b’s being fed by my carver Crimson 275, Carver TFM-45 before that! ascalways enjoy the site, turn up the volume and have great time!

WELCOME @Bwest! Thanks for sharing how you got here. Polk and Carver are a great match!

Welcome to the group @Bwest! I agree with @loner_t that the fellow you met was very likely @Daddyjt - between the speaker addiction and the insistance to dive into fixing your Polks - his talents in that respect are truly amazing - he rebuilt my C1 & M1.0t. That said, there are a number of members from the SLC area who would no doubt would do what they could to help you get sorted out. If you haven't found it, there is also a very active Polk speaker group as well, and there are several folks, here that share membership. You can definitely do worse that an updated Carver Preamp/Poweramp system - especially at the price. Let us know your musical interests, and at some point we'd love to see pictures of what you have - whatever you are running.

Welcome aboard Bwest!!!!

Greetings @Bwest ! We're glad you decided to sign up! Definitely check out what @loner_t has in his FS listing (they are sweethearts)….

Welcome to CS, @Bwest. If the person you mention is from CS, most likely it is @Daddyjt. Either way, you are (were?) in good hands. I have several C1s, including one listed in the FS listings on this site. The various faceplates are Silver C1... Anthracite C1/Black C11

Lots of them, and the way the prices keep climbing, speculators too.

Nah. It's like being a vegan. No one ever has to ask........

On windshield lol. I thought about riding the covid wasteland in a plague dr outfit..

Warning!!! This thread may contain Fan-boys.

Interesting you mention that. Someone just tried to sell me an Oppo 103 with "DarbeeVision" for $300, whatever the blazes that is. I did not know much about the brand so I declined. You'll have to forgive me, I've neglected my video education these past 20 years.