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Welcome, I have been a long time Carver fan. I also own a Sony PS X600 turntable which I have owned from new. There are more of these out there than I would have guessed. I am more of a casual vinyl listener, but this turntable has always ticked all of the boxes for me. I hope you enjoy yours.

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Welcome, I have two C1s. Once you begin to collect Carver gear it is hard to stop.

Maybe there is a FLAC expert out there. Does FLAC support high definition audio (beyond CD) audio formats? I would be interested in knowing more about storing high def audio on my NAS drive. I know that my Sonos zone players only work with audio up to and including CD quality which includes FLAC encoded files ripped from CDs. I would be interest in how members here play, store and use high def audio other than playing it in a SACD disk player.

I also don't recall how to set this up. But the Media Monkey site has this information and a decent forum to search where I found the information to set this up. As Bean states you don't have to maintain a library in both FLAC and MP3 formats. I my library is FLAC and Media Monkey converts the FLAC files as needed for transfer to the Ipod. Good Luck

I think that Media Monkey allows for batch conversions from FLAC to MP3 files. I have never tried it outside of syncing our Ipods. Both my wife and I each have Ipod Classic players that I have setup to sync only to Media Monkey. When I purchase new CDs I will add them to my FLAC library using Media Monkey. The next time I plug each Ipod Classic into my computer, Media Monkey will add the new tracks in bulk to the Ipod after converting to MP3 format. Both my wife and I can carry our entire music collection about 18,000 tracks wherever we travel including our cars. Many of the enhanced features are only accessible with the Gold Media Monkey version which you must pay for. The loss of fidelity from the FLAC version is not as noticeable in a car or outside a critical listening environment like a home.

I use a program called Media Monkey to rip my CDs to FLAC. This program also can recreate and burn CDs. It can also convert FLAC into MP3 format and interface with an IPod. I don't know if Media Monkey handles files higher in resolution than CD resolution or can burn SACD or DVD audio. I suspect there are alternatives out there that handle this.

This is a great discussion. I have a friend who has 16 album frames hung on one wall of his dedicated listening room. He rotates what album covers are displayed from time to time. Most of the covers posted thus far have hung on his wall at one point or another. It is fun to see what is hanging when visiting.

Welcome from a non-techie member. The members here are great, there is always someone with helpful information with any problems. This forum has saved me several trips to the repair shop, plus I gained the skills to replace the red LEDs with blue LEDs on my C-1s and M1.0t amps. Again welcome and enjoy.

Hi Jason Welcome. I have been fortunate to have had Bill Dibble refurb and upgrade my two C-1 preamps as I do not have the electronics skills to undertake a project of this scope. The improvement of sound from the modified C-1 puts it into an entirely new league. The C-1 has always been my favorite preamp. Again welcome.

Great looking system, thanks for the pics. Welcome and enjoy the M1.0t.

We love our ML requests. I have only heard two home theater systems with all electrostatic speakers (except the subs) both 5.1 systems. Both were the best video sound experiences I have had, movie theater or otherwise. The bright large screen projection video contributed to the experience also. I wish both my space and budget allowed for all ES speakers for my surround system. I am sure that your system sounded great. It probably takes a dedicated theater space for most people to make this work.

I have come to the conclusion that my Carver C-1, M1.0t combination will power my Martin Logan Requests. I will use my Emotiva UMC-1 and Carver AV-705x THX amp with my vintage ADS speakers and my Velodyne Sub for my home theater. Seems crazy to have two separate setups in the same room, but I think that sonically this will be the best setup for our situation. Also my wife has a high WAF for equipment (she wanted me to buy the much larger Martin Logan Monoliths rather than the Requests), but a very low WAF as to ease of operation. Two separate systems will insure that she does not even have to switch sources when moving from audio to video content. By the way I changed of my LED in my C-1s and the all but the two top rows in my M1.0ts from red to blue. Great beginning project for someone like me that does not have a lot of electronics or soldering skills. This change really upgrades the look of the Carver gear.

I have always liked my C-1, M1.0t combination. The mods that BillD has developed for the C-1 take it into another league entirely. I am looking forward to having the Mark II treatment done on one of my M1.0t amps. I can't wait to hear the results. As a side note, I have been pleased with my Emotiva UMC-1 as my theater pre-pro in my future new house. I would rate the sound quality of two channel content at at approximately the level for the UMC-1 and an umodified Carver C-1. This was an unexpected pleasant surprise for the UMC-1. There is no contest between the BillD modified C-1 and UMC-1. I would have expected better results from your Emotiva Amp given the fact of 20 plus more years of development since the time our Carver amps were manufactured. Given the longevity of this equipment, our per year cost is low. The only problem is OCCD that addicts one into acquiring more Carver gear!!

Thanks for links to the reviews.

Thanks for your recent review comparing the Carver M1.0t to your Emotiva amp. Very informative. I am still amazed at how well our what is now vintage Carver gear stands up to new comparatively priced equipment in the marketplace. Has anyone done a comparison and review of any of the new generation multi thousand dollar amps against the M1.0t either stock or Mark II? Vintage Carver not only looks good in a stack of equipment but sounds great when compared with more modern gear.

I have been running a BillD modified C-1 for my two channel set up with a M1.0t amp. I own a several Carver amps and preamps. I purchased about a couple of months ago a Emotiva UMC-1 theater pre-pro for my home theater setup to match up with my five channel THX Carver AV-705x amp. I like the functionally of my UMC-1 but I have the occasional audio drop out problem described in the Emotiva forum. New firmware was released yesterday that hopefully addresses the problem. If this one problem is addressed I will be extremely happy with my UMC-1. We are currently living in our recently completed garage/guest house while our home is being built. The UMC-1 is currently being used for video in two channel mode with another one of my M1.0t amps. In two channel mode, my modified C-1 blows away the UMC-1. I do not have an unmodified C-1 to compare to the UMC-1 but I would think that an unmodified C-1 against the UMC-1 would be a close competition. I look forward to a review of comparison of a Carver M1.0t amp to the any of the current Emotiva amps. Based on the results of the pre amps I would think that the an unmodified M1.0t amp and a Emotiva amp would be a good competition but the modified M1.0t Mark II amp would produce superior sound. Based on what I understand about both Emotiva and Carver they are both very similar in offering superior performing products at a great value. They are just from different eras. Welcome and I look forward to your future posts.

It is great to see the Carver brain trust busy producing and selling new products. Wecome to the forum.

Great looking system!! Your system proves that you don't need separates to get that classic look. Welcome!!

Welcome, you will find a wealth of information on Carver and audio in general along with great people here.

Welcome!! There are lots of knoweldgable people here to help you with all things Carver and most things audio. Sanford

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I know what you mean. My daughters (18 and 21) love the music and love listening to our stereo gear and the ability to access our entire music collection in a lossless format via Sonos, this makes our music collection as easy to access as using an Ipod. They also appreciate the further increased fidelity of LPs. However in their everyday life, only one of my daughters would consider making the trade offs of dealing with pieces of equipment larger than a breadbox it takes to obtain the increased fidelity versus having an Ipod that is portable and personal. Neither daughter would never make the trade off of being able to randomly access their music versus the further increased fidelity of a LP. (Why would you want to listen to more than one song in a row from the same artist?) The extra fidelity is not worth it to them. When they listen to music as an activity as opposed to as background music, they listen to a song for 30 seconds to a minute and it is on to the next song. Even with music and artists that they love. They have told me that in the time it takes for my wife and I to listen to one song they can listen to 3 to 5 songs and they get more pleasure from the same amount of time than if they only listen to one song completely. When their friends come over they will listen to our system for hours but they too would not make the trade offs necessary to obtain better quality sound. They too recognize and are absolutely amazed by good sound, but won't make any sacrifices to space or convenience for better sound. Their listening patterns are in the same 30 second to 1 minute sound bytes with the same explanation of getting more pleasure from multiple songs in the same time period. My friends in college all had better quality sound systems then our kids generation of today. I guess we are all graduating to being old codgers. These trends have to be continued bad news for the music business and equipment manufacturers. I find these trends interesting in light of move from regular TV to HDTV which seems counter to what is happening in the music industry.

Great looking truck!! I am also a Northwesterner. I work in Seattle and live in Gig Harbor. Also complusive with cars and stereo stuff. Welcome. Sanford

I believe when using FLAC, when it is uncompressed you end up with a bit by bit identical copy of the original. That was one of the selling points when I selected the format when I ripped my cds to my NAS. When I ripped all of my music about 5 or more years back, disk space was a lot more expensive than it is now. My one terabyte NAS Buffalo Tera Server was around $1,000. Having your collection compressed in a manner where it could be uncompressed to recreate the original was more important from a cost standpoint in making Ipods and MP3 players a viable product than it would be today where a 1 Tb hard disk drive is less than $70 to purchase. One of the reasons there is all of the poor quality MP3 type music was the original high cost of disk space and memory. Highly compressed formats made the technology feasible from a cost standpoint. My kids' generation have grown up with much poorer quality sound reproduction than we did because of this factor. If I was doing it again today, I would look at storing my music in an uncompressed format providing the format supports album art and the rest of the tagging data. It would be great to see a time where digital music is stored a higher resolution than a standard CD in the same way that HD tv is replacing regular definition tv. At this point storage cost should not be a factor.