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Why stop at that one!

What else but the Rippingtons, cause today felt like a Brave New World!!

@AfroSamurai1 Welcome to the Carver site!!

Those two tracks are really good!! Lights turned down low with a good drink in hand just chilling out. Sweet!

More on Dr Jaz https://jazminghentmusic.com

@Dallas797 Welcome to the Carver site!! I am no expert on this amp nor any other for that matter. In looking at the service manual that is available here on the Carver Site I can possibly see why that poster mentioned to replace all 20. The RCA410 comes before the C1000's, so it might have some control over the four, so replacement might be necessary. That one looks to be some sort of gate keeper or gate driver for the other four in the line. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong. Here is a picture of the back of the C500 showing the items and hopefully what you have on yours, I don't have any cross reference on what to replace those items with. I would reach out to Greg here Carver Amplifiers - Services - Nelion Audio to see if he can restore this amp. I hope someone comes along to better help in the repair of your unit and give you guidance. Wish you well with the repair of your unit.

@Sk1Bum Love that video!! Funny you should load that video. I was just at Cabela's Hamburg PA store looking at Shotguns and hand guns for, lets say, "Home Vinyl Defense Weapon". Had some beautiful stuff.

Welcome!! Looking forward to seeing pictures of your speakers, as @AndrewJohn suggested.

@Sk1Bum @Receiver2000 And I could not stop at TajMo, I added Sonny Rollins/ Way Out West, Dexter Gordon/ Daddy Plays The Horn 180g, and Wayne Shorter/ Adam's Apple 180g. I did not want the album to travel alone. As they say, Safety in numbers!

@Franzk the TajMo album is available here and you also get a digital download code. I ordered this today so I'm hoping that they don't forget to send me the download code. https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/123381/Taj_Mahal_and_Keb_Mo-Tajmo-Vinyl_Record

@Sk1Bum @Receiver2000 OK TajMo is on order! Somehow a few other things showed up in my cart ........Wayne Shorter/Adam's Apple, Dexter Gordon/Daddy Plays The Horn, and Sonny Rollins/Way Out West.

For some reason Amazon shows it at 7 inches, and I can't believe that. It has to be a mistake.

@Sk1Bum did you get the 7inch 180 gr record or the CD of this album? I was able to find the tracks on my Amazon music and put them on my play list but want a physical media to play.

Son left. @Sk1Bum had a chance to listen to that track and love It. I have no doubt that the rest is going to be great. Thanks

@Sk1Bum No I have not. I will have to see about getting that. All I have is Keb Mo, The Door and that Taj album.

Son over today. Have the cassette deck playing some Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. (Taj Mahal) and he is playing along with his new Resonator Guitar!! Just hanging out playing the Blues!!

@tvm62 Welcome to the Carver Site!! I assume that you will be putting those amps into service. Our library on Carver Car amps does not include your model. If you are looking for advice on what pieces of Carver Home Stereo equipment can replace the older stereo gear, I'm sure that you will find the answers here!! When you reach 5 reactions you should be able to post pictures as everyone here enjoys see pictures of audio equipment of any kind. Enjoy the Site!!

Oh, when your get 5 reactions you should be able to post pictures. I'm sure we all would like to see pictures of your gear and those speakers.

@Carverrocks Welcome to the Carver Site!! You will find a world of information on those speakers with just a few searches. This location Carver Manuals - TheCarversite! has manuals for those speakers lower down the list. Enjoy!!

Forgot this, 1. The amps used have to be identical models. 2. The speakers need to be identical. 3. The cables used have to be the same design for left and right. I tried to make all the cables running between the preamp and amps the same length. This also went for the speaker wires.

@aholloway17 First I have never done what you are asking about with a 1.0t. I think that they can be used to do a Vertical configuration unless someone has a reason why its not such a good idea. From what I get from your description it sounds like you hooked things up correctly. You can look at the below schematics to see if any of them resembles how you hooked yours up. The long of doing it with my two sets of amps (275 and TFM35) First, the switch on the back of both amps must be in stereo mode. Your speakers will need two sets of binding posts (high pass and low pass as some say) Don't know what configuration of binding posts you have on your speakers, but it sounds like you have this requirement. I had to remove the jumpers from my speakers before I started wiring them up. I purchased banana plugs for all the speaker wire to make this go somewhat easier. Its not a simple hookup and uses twice the amount of speaker wire and you will need two sets of "Y" cables which it sounds like you have. I made my own "Y" cables per this, This is the wiring diagram that I used for when I did a Vertical Bi-amp configuration. I also at one time wired it for a Horizontal Bi-amp confirmation per this, I think that I kept it in the Horizontal configuration only because I got tired of spending time moving my equipment and rack around. I just wanted to listen to my system. I did this for two different sets of amps and three configurations for each. First Two Carver Crimson 275s then Two Carver TFM35s in a Vertical configuration, then Horizontal configuration with the amps in stereo mode, and then just plain old bi-wired with the amps in mono mode. The why you have static and hum I can't answer that question.