nettlecreek

Posted some pictures of my gear in the members picture gallery

Posted pictures of my gear over in the member systems forum. http://thecarversite.com/yetanotherforum/default.aspx?g=posts&m=311858#post311858 Correction on the CD player, turns out it is a SD/A-490t

Hey all, thanks for the warm welcome! Regarding the speakers, I guess the company was in fact SpeakerLab. They were across the street from Magnolia Hi-Fi in the University District (Seattle). From my dim memory, the woofers were poloypro, there was a hard cone tweeter and the mid was a horn. I built the cabinets out of high density particle board and we never got around to skinning them with veneer. My friend moved away and as far as I know he probably still has them. They weighed a ton! Thinking on this project some more I recall a passive reflector on the back cabinet opposite of the polypro. The units were quite large. My CD player tray sticks, so I have to "tap" the top of the unit to get it to slide out, once warmed up it opens and closes with no issues but I don't like hitting my gear to get it to work, and the amp has a hum and I'm getting sound out of both channels even when I have the balance all the way over to one channel or the other. Could be the pre-amp, but I suspect the amp inputs are flaking out. I do custom home A/V and lighting automation and often I'm pulling good gear out of homes because the owner wants to update/modernize. I haul the stuff home to tinker with. Presently in my shop I have a full rack of Elan and fireball hardware that was integrated into a Crestron a/v system which was linked to a Lutron Homeworks Illumination lighting system, amps are SpeakerCraft BB1265 (3 of them!) all working just fine. I'm going to call the Carver repair outfit down in Oregon, I can live without my gear for a while since I have plenty of options! Will post pictures later today! Mike...

Hi forum folks! Stumbled across this site looking for Carver repair services. Was introduced to Carver by an audiophile friend in the mid 80's, he had a pair of silver 7's and I recall a pair of m-400's as well. We built a pair of custom speakers from a company in the U district (speaker craft?). Any how, at parties we would put a candle about 24" in front of the speakers and turn it up and watch the candle get blown out! Fell in love with Carver then and still love my gear today. My Carver line up consists of: SD/A390t CD-Player, CT-6 Preamp and a TFM-35 Amp, Driving a pair of Klipsch KG4's My amp is having issues and I'm thinking of getting everything refurbished by Hi-Tech Audio Ltd as they seem to be the go-to place for Carver repairs. Any feedback on them would be welcome. I'll post pictures tomorrow as I only snapped pics of the model numbers.