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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.

Risers? What risers? do tell..., what is the legacy of Mr M500t?

@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 -

Welcome back... Hmmm, who you calling old? Or..., How old are you thinking..., LOL! 😉 Seriously, a few old timers have been checking back in - but the very early first generation when @RichP714 started this journey called TheCarverSite, are hard to find..., other interests, other activities, family, and so on, life has moved some on.

That is a good recording. I took my son and his wife to see Queen, a couple years ago, and they both said this same thing..., being younger, they had never attributed many of the songs they knew by heart, to Queen - and Adam Lambert did an incredible job being part of the tour.

Welcome to TCS. I saw someone just sold that exact NHT setup and center channel on the NHT forum..., was that you that picked them up? Are yours black, rosewood, or the pickled white finish?

Very cool, Greg. no worries on getting it up on the site. That sensitivity option will make a lot of folks happy!

Super nice, @Nahash5150, Love seeing the process in images. @davidc is gonna' love this. Curious to ask, what does the LED sensitivity switch do? I did look on NelionAudio.com for a mod option description - may have missed it. Thanks in advance.

Side question for you..., have you ever hooked up a musical fidelity tube buffer in line with the output of your TL-3200? Before I picked up an SD/A 490t with it's integral tube buffer, I had an SD/A 360 5 disk carousel unit. Years ago, a member here (I forget who) suggested I do that, and WOW, it made what I thought was a great sounding Carver CD player, sound even better! They make a new model, the "X-Tube," which goes for $599 new, but I just picked up the earlier model the X10-D off of eBay - the prices are climbing..., but there are dozens of knock-offs in kit form you can get on eBay too, for under $50. They too sound great with an early CD player. they need a chassis, also pretty cheap to pick up on eBay. ...yes, I'm feeding your hobby addiction... !! 😉

I'm curious, what is the date on the back sticker..., does it have a manufacturing date? The other option..., would be to just pick up another working unit off eBay or offer-up, or reverb..., and use that one. 😉

That's my sense. If you look at, say, the SD/A 490t laser assembly, there's a small PCB with components soldered on it... I've never disassembled it. And, the wires, then go to the main PCB, in a section that does conversion of the bytes read on the CD, into something that the system can send on to the preamp. The DAC is on that part of the PCB layout. Any number of (the many!) caps, resistors, chips, etc. on that part of the main PCB, could be causing the system to indicate a "READ Error", which knee-jerk thought is to say the laser is bad, and not reading the disk - when really, the data is reading fine, but isn't getting processed properly, downstream. I wish I were smarter..., I'd like to learn and really dig into this more - I'm just either lack the mental capacity, or am too busy these days to want to invest the time and learn..., so take my thoughts here with a grain of salt.

I don't think lasers fail all that much. I could be wrong, but if lasers were at high fault rate, CD's may have never taken off..., and, as you note, some enterprising entrepreneur might have by now, developed an aftermarket set of products for the big 5 makers' lasers, to fulfill demand. I draw the analogy with car parts..., the demand for old car parts replacing the 7-year supply chain for car parts required of automakers, has been completely filled by third parties. For CD players, in my experience with dozens across my bench, I have never replaced a laser..., the failing "read" is almost always due to something else, either mechanical or electronic. That's not to say it's not possible, just I've never seen it happen and I buy, fix, and sell a lot of CD players in my spare time.

I know the feeling..., I hate to drop a project until I achieve success. One thought, though..., why not buy a parts machine, and harvest the entire transport mechanism? Changing a laser requires calibration as I understand the repair (surgery) but harvesting the entire transport, and transplanting it into your unit might be cheaper, and more successful..., yes, a $50 parts unit off of ebay could be broken..., and not work - but it's the same gamble. FWIW, I've fixed a dozen SD/A 490t units this way... (I also learned that the transport unit (the CD disk drive) was common between the SD/A 410, SD/A 450 CD players, so I got good at buying the cheaper units, harvesting the CD drive, and creating a $300+ tube-based outcome in the fixed SD/A 490t unit! (I've sold more than one for over $500, with less than $200 invested to create it from harvested parts. Hoping you come out on top of this one! 😉

Welcome @madrussian, so glad you found us. There is some 17+ history of threads from carver fans across the North American and beyond in the archives here. I've been here for just over a decade, and learn something new every time I log in - either from reading old threads, or from new contributions from current active members. there are several thousand - although most come and go. Hoping you kick back, enjoy the archives, and stick around. And, of course, contribute - we love stories like yours. ...,and, of course, we LOVE pictures - post your setup sometime when you get a chance.

Welcome, @MrVulkn, glad you found us. This is a great site for persistent resources on the internet..., (nothing if findable on Facebook!) And, most of all, the community of Carver Fans here is the best part. Great advice, lots of camaraderie, and it's a safe place on the internet - no ads (although you cand sometimes find Carver and other gear here for sale or wanted to buy...). But most of all, we're harmless, and maintain a drama-free environment where everyone is welcome, and everyone checks controversy at the door to focus on Audio (and a few other hobbies 😉 ). That's a great setup you have there. I had the SD/A 360 carousel player. If your drawer isn't opening, it's likely a belt - and as @BobTFM35 already suggested, the belt table in the Manuals Library (CD section) should give you and idea of what to order. Belts are often available on eBay - and a few other direct vendors out there. eBay sellers are pretty good for this part. When I had the SD/A 350, I paired it with a musical fidelity tube buffer..., basically that makes it a SD/A 390 (the next higher up Carver CD model. Your SD/A 360 is a real work-horse, and well worth the cost of a belt. If there are other issues from being stored - there are some threads (some I posted) in the SOURCE section of the forum on fixes for a few of the possible issues age brings to this, (and other) components. Again! WELCOME!