BillWojo

What I don't understand on the Sunfire subs is the wattage ratings. One of them puts out like 2700 watts! Now I understand about having overhead in your amps but at what levels will you need that much power? My current system is a C11 to a PM600 driving the DCM's and the self powered subs. I am playing this LOUD! It sounds fantastic. Yes, I'd like to get into a M500-T for the ribbons someday just to have additional overhead as the PM600 is rated at 200W at 8 ohms. My DCM's are 6 ohm nominal so since my amp is rated at 300W at 4 ohms I figure I have about 250W at my disposal. And yes, I get the leds dancing near the top. I don't know where my cat hides. LOL Is anybody else running ProSubs? BillWojo

Since I'm in on the Carverfest speaker buy I've been looking for a set of subs to go with them. Early on I picked up a Definitive Technology ProSub 800 at a thrift shop for 15 bucks. It has a 8" woofer and a 8" passive radiator, self powered with a 300 watt plate amp. Yesterday I found a matching one for a good deal on Craigs list. Looked brand new. Tonight I made up some 36" speaker leads to go from my DCM TimeFrame 600 speakers to the subs . I had bought some GLS Audio locking banana plugs a while back and this was the first time I had a reason to need them. I like and recommend them to anyone building a set of cables. Fully machined out of brass and gold plated to boot. Very good quality. Back on subject. So I hooked them up, set the crossover on the sub's to 150HZ, or the max. Now I'm feeding the sub's the same signal as the DCM's so the DCM's will still play as low as they go at this point. I'm not going through the sub's crossovers, just adding to the DCM's output. Turned the sub's volume control roughly half way up on both units and went looking for ..............DSOTM. It's my go to test CD. I must be close to where the volume should be set as the sub's are not standing out, just adding something that was missing. They seem to blend in very nicely. I never realized that the heartbeat continued through the whole song, it always just got lost in the other music playing on top of it.. I'm hearing things I never did before. Now I have nothing to compare these ProSubs to but at this point I'm very happy. I had called DefTech the other day to talk to one of the tech's about my plan. He told me that what I wanted to do should work out fine, that the ProSub's were very musical. Last week I ordered DSOTM on SACD, it will be my first SACD. Can't wait to hear it on my upgraded system. Anyway, now I understand what all the fuss is about. Can't wait to get my ribbons. BillWojo

Cool, I hope you get it. It would be interesting to read. Someday I hope to get a chance to hear a set, but for now I'll just be satisfied to get my Carverfest speakers next fall. Good luck. BillWojo

Does anybody have the text from the review? Be interesting to read what they had to say. BillWojo

Flea market find today, Moody Blues, Days of Futher Passed with the London Festival Orchestra. Listening now, needs a good cleaning but sounds good. Brings back memories. BillWojo

Love the bedroom setup. Guess you don't fall asleep with those speakers rocking. Cool setup and welcome to the forum. BillWojo

I'm kinda new here but welcome back. Great bunch of folks here. Glad your eating the bear and not the other way around. BillWojo

Hi Chris, welcome to the forum. Hang out a while, good bunch of folks here. BillWojo

Hi and welcome to the site, it's a great place to hang out. Lot's of friendly and helpfull folks here to help you spend your money. Yea, kev777 got it bad, got enough power in his amp collection to do sound in a big venue. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Nope, not at all. Interesting that you have a tool and die shop. I'm an independent service tech, worked for Bridgeport Machines for 13 years and been out on my own for over 15 years now. I bet I had at least 200 tool and die shops I serviced at one point, now down to about 3. I have 1 customer that has a big press room. All the others are out of buiseness or moved overseas. You in the automotive field? Anyway, welcome and hang around a while. BillWojo

Hi CT-Seven. The new to me CX90ES will probably just sit off to the side but hooked up to my system and used for background music. It's huge, I doubt it would fit into my rack, very long front to back. The DVP-S7000 will be my primary reference player that I'll run through my new DAC when it arrives. It will be interesting if I hear much of a difference with my old ears as I'm 57 and have spent my entire life around loud machinery, racing motorcycles and such. I'm hoping that it will though. Switching from my Denon 90WPC intergrated amp to my Carver C1 and PM600amp was an eye opener for sure. Not that it was so much more powerfull but that it was much more richer and more detailed. My guess is that my DCM speakers really needed the additional power to drive them. I do have a Sony CDP-520ES from the mid 80's that has excellent build quality but no digital output. The DAC in it sucks big time. I find it very tiring to listen to. There is a mod that can be done to tap into it to get digital out. Someday I'd like to try that out. Uses the BU linear transport that is an engineering marvel. Nice to have options. BillWojo

I went out for awhile tonight so I've only got through 3 CD's so far. So far it's all nice background music. It will take a while to get through them all but I'll just let it play when I'm around. Hopefully it's the gift that keeps giving. LOL Over on the DIY forum they had a group buy for the Subbu DAC that I got in on. Purchased the assembled and tested boards, consist of the DAC board and a low noise PS. Not ready to try surface mount stuff so I paid the extra to let them do it. When it gets here I'll need to make a case for it and I'll try it on this player. Has digital output as well as a few of my other CD players. Should sound awesome on my Carver setup. BillWojo

I've been hitting the GoodWill stores a lot in the past week. Still waiting for that pristeen M500T amp but hasen't happened yet. One thing there is a lot of is CD players. I like to keep an eye out for older Sony ES stuff. A short while back I found a Sony DVP-7000 for cheap and that became my single play reference player, really sounds good. So today I stopped into my favorite store and they had a few of those big Sony carusel players. Never wanted one and still don't BUT one of them was filled with disc and jammed up. (I always check them for that) So I pull a few of the disc out and they really aren't what I'm looking for. Actually, most of the artist I never heard of. But it's a 200 disc player and seems like it has a lot of disc in it. So for 30 bucks I took home a Sony CX90ES filled with mystery disc. Get it home and pop the top off, sure enough there is a pile of disc that were jarred loose and laying inside. Pulled the loose ones out and reinserted them in some empty slots. Found a few more that needed to be reseated and fired it up. There must be close to 130 or more CD's! So far it's been playing a lot of jazzy easy listening type music, good background stuff. I'm just letting it play and if I hear something I don't care for I'll pull it but so far so good. Like I said, it's excellent easy listening back ground music. I'll pull some disc later and give you some of the artist names. Somebody really had a lot of money tied up in this. Now I just have to figure out the controls. BillWojo

Hmmm, I was at the GoodWill today, picked up an early Genesis album for a buck. I can clearly see that I'm being ripped off. 17 albums for 14 bucks, I knew I was paying to much. LOL BillWojo

Doh-R, your absolutely right. I have picked up CD's that were recorded from vinyl and not very nicely. Full of hiss and pops, others were the mastering was terrible. And than you get some where you reach for the volume control and just crank it up. Those ones are keepers. BillWojo

Me to. It's the room a decent collection of vinyl would take up though. I'd love to have a really nice turntable to display and play some tunes on and maybe someday at a thrift store or yard sale I'll stumble across something that I can't walk away from. But it's the room a collection of records would take up that scares me. I did score a few country classics at an estate sale a month ago......just in case. In the meantime I just keep collecting CD's BillWojo

Wasn't to many alternative way's to listen to music back in 1977. When CD's became mainstream, it really killed sale's. I find it interesting that vinyl is making a comeback. I think investors are gun shy because they may percieve it as nothing more than a fad. I'd be surprised if say in 5 years that vinyl is still a growing media. We shall see. BillWojo

Hi Mark, my disc came in today. Listening to disc one right now. Cris Rae, Road to Hell, fantastic! So far everything sounds great and I'm ashamed to admit, there's a few artist I'm not famialar with. That's one of the things about something like this that's so cool. Everybody put there heads together and we have a collection of music that for many is new to us. This is more than a gift, it's a treasure. Thank you so much. Can't wait to get to disc 2. BillWojo

Yep, and this is the best audio forum that I've been on. I'm lucky to have aquired a stack of Carver goodies as I'm afraid that I might get that dreaded OCCD syndrome. So why was I looking on Craigslist today and what was that trip to the thrift store that usually has audio stuff about? Hmmmmm. The more I listen to my new setup the more I'm digging it. I feel like I've joined a Carver secret society, if everybody knew what we know, the prices on this gear would skyrocket. Lucky for us, most folks have never heard of Carver. BillWojo

Hi guys, seems you all want photos, well I can direct you to a post by member Scottsonon in the Trading Post section. It's right at the top, look for "Carver stack for sale or trade". He even has a link to the mods he did on the C11. I can't beleive how good this setup sounds. As you can see, he did a very nice job on the C11. I found an add posted by him on Craigslist, after a bit of research on this forum, well you know the rest. BillWojo

Hi Guys, thanks for the warm welcome. I'd love to post pics but right now it's all a mess. Once I get everything straightened out I'll take some pics. Been listening to this system since I got home, just love the sound. Scott, it was a pleasure doing buisiness with you and thanks for helping me carry it out to my car. Hope you get that Scott you have your eye on. Those EV's need to be rocking. Take care and thanks. BillWojo

Hi folks. I just picked up a C11 preamp with all the BillD mods along with a PM600 amp and TX-8 tuner from a fellow member hear from Reading PA. Running it through a set of DCM TimeFrame 600 speakers and it sounds so clean. Dead silent when it should be, clean and crisp on the vocals and .....just, just....WOW! Now I understand what all the fuss is about. Source is a Sony CDP-C75ES CD player. I ordered a Subbu DAC from the Diyaudio forum and when that arrives that will go between my CD player and the pre, it can only get better. I can't imagine. Well I want to thank all of you folks for making up my mind, I was up till 1am last night reading on Carver's. I'm sure I made the right decision. This replaces a Denon PCM-720 intergrated amp. Thanks again! BillWojo