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I'm 62, mechanical engineer and listen to hard rock, classical guitar. I owned a Carver CT-7 Preamp and loved it and had questions about Carver amps.

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!

Hello everybody. Who's left from the old days ?

ruunning 2 carver tfm 6cb in bridge mode driven by carver c2 or dynaco pat5 preamps. Speakers are jbl L110 DAC SML

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.

Currently trying to repair an Amber 3501 test set...circa 1988. Checking out whether it might be possible to improve the input section with modern semiconductors...particularly since the 2SK146 Dual JFETs are unobtainium....Thinking some members might give me some pointers.

Thanks for adding me. Just wanted to join the forum to add information that I could provide and learn from other members.

Alan Parson has redone "Tales of mystery and imagination", "I robot", "Pyramids" and is just about to release "Eye in the Sky" - All in BluRay Audio Atmos..

@Pete C Welcome to the Carver site!! A very nice grouping of equipment that you have. I started my equipment journey with a variety of dynaco equipment. This is a representation of two of the units I had, Pat5 and a Stereo 400 with meters. @Sk1Bum From this, my journey was along the TFM series of amps, Sunfire and Phase Linear units. Enjoy!!

I have several Carver components and understand this is the place to find out more about them.

Hello everyone, I am new to this site, and I am an avid Carver lover. I have two Carver 1.0t in mono pushing my AR TSW-910 speakers. These speakers love the power from my amps. I also have 2 Carver cubes. One in mono running the center channel and the other in stereo running the surrounds. I'm using a Yamaha receiver as the preamp. I bought all my Carver amps new back in 1988(I think it was 1988 as it has been so long). I'm starting to get a pop when I shut the amps down, so I think it is time to get them serviced. They have been bullet proof since the day I bought them. I'm in the Fond du Lac, WI area if anyone has a good suggestion. If not, I am planning on reaching out to Nelion Audio. Thank you and I look forward to taking time to look at all the posts on this forum. Rick

@RickO, BTW, your old handle, @Mr. M-500t, and profile, still exists..., As @Sk1Bum indicated, your password can be reset..., just ask. All your posts and thread contributions from your time (2012 and before) are still here. BTW, you might notice that the back-end platform has changed. the original became crusty and was not going forward - @Nahash5150 put the effort into finding, and migrating the old TCS to this new platform..., much easier to use, and to put threads together with pictures! And so much more you'll get to find out as you visit more. Again, welcome back -

My son picked this up a couple weeks ago, and all I can say is WOW - I’m fairly certain that this is THE BEST top to bottom concert disc I’ve seen. First off, the pure energy from the band AND the crowd is infectious. Next, the engineers perfectly captured the sound of a stadium concert - then the video editing is fantastic, with a great mix of camera angles. And finally, the material itself… I’ve liked INXS since they hit the scene big in the 80’s - I saw them live in 86, and I have all their recordings. However, I have to admit that watching this show, I didn’t realize how many of their songs I knew - this show is about 90 minutes of hit after hit. give it a spin - it’ll show just what Atmos can do, which is transport you to Wembley Stadium in ‘91 for a spectacular show….

Hi Bob, Got it! That absolutely got the Got it! The wife is out and followed yours and Bobs advice, it got the LED dancing! I don't usually run hhot but its awesome- Thank you

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.

WELCOME BACK @RickO(Mr. M-500t)! Been here since Feb. of 2009...does that count as an old timer?

T-Square, Wings (album)

@Half Life Thanks. And the answer is Yes! Forget about the grass too many CCR records to spin. I use to live on the other side of the James River for over a year, long ago, Langley. Spent many a weekend at Virginia Beach, Norfolk for a variety of reasons. These are the other units on the left side of the three bay.

Being exposed to Carver gear counts in my eyes. All it takes is that first step. Could it be a nice Carver SD/A-390t 5‑Disc Carousel CD Player, or one of the many amps that Bob has designed. My first step was a TFM 35, and after that .... Dip your toe once and the rest will be history. Good luck on your restoration of the Amber, its kind of a cool looking piece of equipment.

Many thanks guys....and Half Life hit the jackpot..the datasheet actually states it's a drop-in replacement for the 2SK146...with a better noise figure....the Amber may live again...!!...I was nearly giving up...actually started looking for a used QA403... I do need to come clean and admit I don't own any Carver gear...although have repaired some in my time. ...does that count...?

Hey Mr. M-500t! Good to see you back. I am from the old days. Are you still making the risers? "Ya we tease him a lot, cuz we got him on the spot, welcome back"

He's really good at that. My 3.3 purchase was because of his love of his 2.9s. He also had a hand in my Hellcat Pro purchase over a Glock G43.

I also have 4 Sunfire Carver Signature 2700 watt subs. Not hooked up though. Don't want to anger the neighbors...lol.

Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm driving the 3.3 with the Creek Destiny integrated amplifier and alternating with my Adcom GFP 750 preamplifier and Aragon 8008bb amplifier. Sources Luxman t-117 tuner, Conrad Johnson SD-22 CD player, OPPO UDP-203 Bluray, Technics SL-B2 and 1300 turntables, Audio Engine Bluetooth wireless DAC.

Fantastic work Greg... I just received the amp back today and am truly impressed. You had a chance to use "fake" rivets with no heads, but nuts to hold them and yet you choose to use the real rivets and buck them yourself. Bravo! A little history of this amp for those of you reading this for the first time. I purchased this from the estate of a Mac collector. It was one that nobody else seemed interested in and yet, despite it's looks it was one of Mac's best amps made and this one had all original Telefunken small tubes with the exception of one of the small tubes and the 6L6's which I sourced from an eBay seller who had original Mac tubes for sale. I actually use KT66's in it although I sent it to Greg with the 6L6's since that's what the original used. The power supply was rebuilt with Authenticaps and a couple of NOS Mallories that I had laying around. The unit always sounded great after the PS refurb and I paid $1000 for the unit and about $350 for the chassis and hardware. Combined with Greg's more than generous labor cost...Thank you again Greg... I am into this unit for far less than one not even close to matching the looks of this one. I was shocked at the specs that Greg got out of the unit. Now it looks as good as it sounds! Thank you again for such detail and quality that only you can provide Greg!! Kind Regards, Fxbill

Hey Bob, thank you! Yes, to everything You asked me about except the manual, however, I did forget, heading to read music button. I can option it and isolate all my speakers, except the front with her what is connected to my Carver. So I followed your advice And then crank it up and they are dancing So now I know it works but most important It still sounds great. Thank you for your response. It helped not to mention the wife’s away, and I was able to crank it up!

A bit of a rant here (stop me if you have had enough of that in general). I heard a new big band - WDR Big Band from Cologne, Germany (Thank you Jazz London and KCSM). So i thought I would take a look at what they had available from the discography. First stop - discogs (big mistake. HUGE!). For whatever reason, recordings, be they vinyl or CD format, the price to ship from Europe is at/near $100 per recording! I damn near keeled over! Next stop - Amazon. It was a little better, $18-$20/recording, but then they get you with a 'tariff' tax! *sighs* It would almost be cheaper to take a flight to Cologne, grab what I can and fly back, hiding the music in the false bottom of my luggage to avoid the damn 'Duty Tax'. Who knew people would consider smuggling recorded music in this day an age?

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.

I'm going to be working my way through this list along with my daily dose. https://www.discogs.com/digs/music/essential-jazz-fusion-records/

Those are nice!!! I do something similar using black ABS 1.5" pipe. Using my chop saw, I cut the height I'm trying to achieve, and use that as a spacer. I place the stock Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers from Carver in the center so they can't slide out, and put a layer of felt on the contact cut-end. I need to get a picture - and may have posted one a while back (years). My goal with this approach is to get the same aesthetically pleasing distance between the front faceplates of my Carver pieces. It always bugged me that the stock button feet from Carver varied so much, as also did the lip-distance (overhang and underhang) of the faceplate above and below the chassis.

I was at Walmart when I got a taste of this although it was an instrumental version... Step into your last goodbye... Alice Cooper Desperado

This came up on SiriusXM this morning; I just about hear this whenever I climb on the bike for a spin

Welcome back! I've only been here 5 years. But, nice to meet an "OG". You all started a very cool community.

I can change the email address on your old account - it's still in the database. Just PM me and I'll get it set up for you.

This came up on WOCL FM Deland FL (About 60 miles from me) Definitely uneasy... Charlie Daniels Band

I pop in from time to time but no longer have any Carver gear so don't have much to add. Still got those risers everywhere, though!

I just took a quick run to one of my favorite food trucks (It's a "thing" around here) and they were playing this; I was surprised as most of them don't provide music...

Mouser says: https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/3/1206/1/jfet-ifn146-interfet.pdf Good luck!

No more AVRisers. It was fun while it lasted.

WELCOME!

Hello RickO and welcome back! I am not one from the old days, but I've been here about 9 years. There are several left from the early days, but some have moved on and sadly, some have passed on. If you want, your old login can be reset by one of the admins. Just let us know if you're interested in renewing Mr. M-500t.

My daily dose. The Rippingtons, Kilimanjaro (album)

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

Bob Welch Sentimental Lady

Heard this on SiruisXM this morning.. Queen We Will Rock You (We Are The Champions)

Chuck Mangione Feels So Good

This popped up on WOCL FM Deland FL; great cruisin' music! ZZ Top Heard It On The X

My daily dose. The Rippingtons, Life In The Tropics (album)

England Dan & John Ford Coley Nights Are Forever Without You

ZZ Top Tush