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

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

It is true that sometimes certain pieces of equipment do not sound good together. I'm wondering this: Perhaps your refurbished M500t is CLEANER sounding than your previous amps. At first, CLEANER can also sound "thinner" or "less loud". The imaging may also appear "further back" and therefore seem "less loud" or "less room filling". Thats when you need to start listening to late 50's and early 60's well recorded JAZZ. Maybe try adjusting the toe-in/out of the speakers a little first.

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.

Nice collection of DIY speakers!

Welcome mattsk8 There are plenty of knowledgable techs on the site who can help you through a recap of your amps. (not me). I look forward to a recap thread on your TFM55 as I will have to tackle this myself someday.

I thought this thread was about people sea(e)king loudness.

I don't see any mention of getting "purged" if a person is inactive for 30 days.

The back of yer amplifier will be labelled right and left at the binding posts. Go by that designation, methinks.

At the end of Rocky III, Apollo says to Rocky, "you fight great, but i'm a great fighter" This has nothing to do with speakers, but that's what it reminded me of.