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4krow

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  1. Welcome Ben,

     

     Always good to hear a story like that. 

     

     What might help is for you to pop the top and show some good photos. That isn't automatically part of troubleshooting, but you are going to be headed there any way. I can't be certain, but we have a fairly extensive set of service manuals at this site and so that is a good place to start. You will meet some folks here that know a thing or two about this gear.

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  2. Welcome. Yes, the Stereophile/Carver challenge was a head turner for a lot of us. Not that there weren't really cool products, but more than a few were not going to be owned us anytime soon. I owned some the others and I have owned some of the Carver. I am still stricken by what I have heard from the one Carver A220 that I owned. It wasn't Carver's top model or anything, yet there was an undeniable clarity that, if I hadn't already committed to a year long amp project, I still would have the Carver without a second thought.

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  3. Maybe it is better to know what frequencies that rubber vs cork attenuate/control. What comes to mind for me is a rolled-on coating that can be built up by coats on two different opposing surfaces giving you constrained layering (the same idea as cork or rubber). I would venture a guess that the two slabs being used for this be of two different thicknesses.

     This is a subject that has always been of interest to me.

  4. It's a good question. Personally, I have never had any objections to the C-9 to begin with, hence my love affair with it for decades. Let's go this way--- buy one get one keep one, or return one for your money back. That has been my policy from the beginning and if I haven't misspoken, it is the Carver way as well. You be the judge, you decide.

     

     >>> So as I queried before, can these be preordered?<<<

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  5. I was able to buy machinists' 2" thick marble slabs for much less than I thought they would be. I think that they were 11" X 14" which was just right for the small mono blocks that I was using. Not that it matters but they were machined to one ten thousandth of an inch. 

     I have to ask, if you are concerned with vibration migrating into the tubes, just how loud are you going to be playing music? And what are you using for bass? If it is a sub, then perhaps there is reason for this thinking, but in normal terms, I don't think that you will be able to hear any effect of the airborne or otherwise vibration that the tubes have to endure. I would say otherwise with a tube that is high in microphonics such as the miniature 3S4. 

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  6. I do appreciate this explanation. Specs and numbers get regularly fouled up by sales staff among others as well. You know, if you say something with enough conviction it assures the listener that your opinion has merit. Again, there is nothing like an in home test for this. Dam all the specs. What does it sound like in your environment? Even then, you better give your opinion some time to settle in.

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