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Welcome Back, @Harryfan. It's always great when an old-timer logs back in. You probably noticed that the forum looks a bit different - @Nahash5150 swapped out the platform for it, a while back - it is SO much better! I think we would love to have the C-9 in the stable somehow - perhaps as a road-show item, or to auction to fund hosting for the website. What do you think about that option? Let me know and I can help coordinate.

@Keyman69, Quoting descriptions from another member Dominic, @zumbini, How we got to the different versions of the PM-1.5... "fan failures were common in early PM-1.5s". These amps were recalled and repaired and the revised amp sold as the PM-1.5a / PM-1200." "The PM-1200 and it's predecessor the PM-1.5 are basically an M-1.5 with larger output devices, balanced inputs and fan cooling. Should be no surprise that they sound alike." We love repair threads..., and lots of pictures. Consider posting yours in the Amp forum! 😉 others may benefit, and yet others, may chime in with help.

Welcome, @Keyman69, glad you found us. Also, to support your project, be sure to download the service manual. The Carver PM 1.5 has two incarnations..., the second to address issues in the first version - both are good - but the reading will help identify which you have, and how to proceed. Check out these two Service Manuals as your proceed.

@sea, here on The Carver Site, may not check here daily - but can also be found via a DM on Facebook, look for "Ed Atkins" Super great guy, and is the only go-to for ribbon repair for Carver amazings that has the correct jigs required to re-assemble them, holding the powerful magnets in place..., it's not possible to reassemble without the jigs.

Thanks for the offer. We love it when people help to build and maintain the complete development of the library. If the copy you purchased is cleaner than the scan we have on file, in the locationed indicated below in the image, we're always happy to improve the library too - some of our scans are not perfect - this one looks pretty good - but do a quick eyeball check to compare with the one you picked up. If it's better, we'd love a clean scan. Thank you for offering it up to improve the library!

Excellent! We love project threads. There's a forum for Speakers where you can start a new thread and brag on your project ..., and people will comment, answer questions, or otherwise keep you motivated! 😉

Welcome, @Bbracken, glad you found us. Cut and paste some pictures of your speakers! they sound very interesting. We love pictures!

Welcome to TCS. That is a rare item, and the manual, very rare. If you come across one, please scan it and send it in so we can add it to the library. I do recall this popping up on eBay as a New in Box, about 2 years ago, IIRC. As for static, sounds like your unit might have something aging (capacitor, perhaps) and going bad. Or, just loosely based on the symptoms, it might be a cracked solder joint. All fixable by the right tech. Best of luck! And, again, welcome to TCS.

The belt size table is also located in the Manuals Library under the CD Player section (Manuals Library is the menu click at the top...) There are several threads on 360 and 390 CD player repairs on TCS - check them out in the Forum for Sources, or use Search. Enjoy - glad you found us.

Welcome to the forum, @Murray I fixed an SD/A 390t and posted a thread about it. In one of the last posts I added to the thread (scroll down) I noted a video I found of a Denon DCM 320, that showed the internals of that Denon to look identical to the guts of the SD/A 390t. Almost perfectly - EXCEPT Bob Carver added the tube buffer stage from the SD/A 490t in the space that was open in the Denon unit. Links to those YouTube videos are in that thread. I don't know anyone in Canada to refer you to - but a qualified tech that has experience with CDs should be able to fix it - and, yes, they are hard to find. The Service Manual is also in the Library here on TCS - and it is quite good and informative. Any shop you go to should reference it (download it for FREE). Have a look at my thread - see if the symptoms you have are the same..., they often are. I have fixed several of these, now, with this same fix. Good luck! That thread is here:

@Charlie, Love the Thorogood. When he pops on SiriusXM, these two always rock out, kick back, turn on the Carver and pour a bourbon, or two, neat.

Amazon Used books list copies at around $600. Not out of print, and easily and reasonably acquired, another couple of biographical books worth a look/read/listen (audiobook), is "The Real Frank Zappa" which covers a lot, including his much-overlooked and undervalued successful activism for free speech. And, "My Effin' Life by Geddy Lee. His story needs another volume as Rush regroups on it's current tour and new drummer. But the prior years are worth reading. Neil Peart's writings, of course, are legendary!

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! 😉