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I'm pretty sure Bob left Carver Corporation before the AV806x came out.

Fantastic CD. But for some reason, the bass is boomy on a few of the tracks.

Real Real Gone by Van Morrison blew me away when it was released in 1990. It seemed to kind of disappear from the radio after a short time but a great "Night" song;

The ultimate receiver can't be used as a separate power amp in the traditional way because there are no external jumpers to separate the pre and power amp sections. If you use an external preamp into the 8 channel input of the sunfire, you are basically connecting a preamp into another preamp. What MAY work is this: (and we should get conformation from others first) Connect the external preamp to the sunfire 8 channel input as desired. Turn the Sunfire volume to absolute minimum. Turn the external preamp volume to maybe half volume. Play some music and very slowly turn the Sunfire volume up until you hit the volume you want. Then, leave the Sunfire volume at that setting and don't touch it. Use the external preamp volume control to do all volume adjustments. That MAY work. I have an URll and I just use the TV to switch HDMI. The TV has 4 or 5 inputs. Then I use the digital/analog inputs of the Sunfire for sound. Its a little more tedious but it works for me.

Marcela Mangabeira : Bossa Nova cover of Earth, Wind and Fires' "September". I dig this;

I'm waiting for the return of K-TEL records.

I bought it because the cover looked cool.

I just happened to be manning the INADVERTENT HELP HOTLINE yesterday.

On second thought, if the unit flashes "pre on" then my suggestion above is probably not the answer.

Check the back of the unit. There will be jacks that say "pre out" and "main in" or something similar to that. those need to be connected with pins or short rca interconnect cables. See area circled red in picture below. My guess is that is your problem.

I have used my ultimate receiver ll to drive my Carver ALS originals. I have read that they can dip below 1 ohm (confirmation needed). The combination sounds great but I listen at relatively low-moderate levels. If you really want to crank it loud I would probably recommend a stand alone Sunfire amp as suggested or you could get a Carver M1.0t with upgrade modifications done by one of the forum techs.

Cello has two f-holes.

Welcome to the forum.

I just did a quick experiment with my Sunfire ultimate receiver. I have a Satellite PVR connected to the TV via HDMI and an optical cable to the sunfire. I also have the TV optical out connected to the sunfire. Now, first I played a movie on the PVR. with the sunfire input set to receive the digital signal from the PVR the sound is 5.1. (sunfire has two blue lights to indicate processing; one confirms a digital signal and the other confirms DD. My ear confirms 5.1. Now, I switch to the sunfire input that receives the TV optical input and low and beyhold, the DD light goes out and the sound is now only 2CH. Next, I fire up Netflix which is received by the TV directly from my wireless router. I leave the sunfire set to receive the optical signal from the TV. I fire up the next episode of Breaking Bad and the DD indicator on the sunfire lights up and again the sound is 5.1 SO, it seems that the TV optical out is capable of sending a DD signal (when it originates from the TV) however, it does not seem to "pass through" a DD when it originates from the PVR. I don't know if this helps, but that's the way the sunfire works. It just automatically plays the DD or 2CH w/o me having to select anything.

That's weird that it would just start happening all of a sudden. It sounds like the C1000 is not switching between DD and 2CH automatically, from movie/show to commercial. Its waiting for the DD. Hitting DPL takes advantage of the 2CH digital signal during commercials. It's especially weird if other channels were working normally.