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These are exact replacements?

Sorry to hijack...I have two Shure V15 Type V ME cartridges. Last used probably 30 yrs ago. Can the rubber connecting the stylus to the cartidge go bad? Should I replace it automatically if I'm going to hook it up again? The stylus itself I know isn't worn out. Can replacement styli be trusted to be just as good as original?

Yes, the two problems were that the rest of the albums were really expensive, and the choice wasn't that great. If I remember, you had to choose the full priced monthly albums from a small list. Between Columbia House and BMG, I probably signed up 3-4 times over the years. Several times I just ignored the followup letters. I'm pretty sure CH dinged my credit back in the 80's.

My dad and I signed up quite a few times. It was fine as long as you purchased the expensive album and then canceled. It was still worth it.

Gotcha. Possibly, some people on the forum may still have their old broken motors if they replaced with a different fan. I'd suggest doing a search for fan replacement threads and then contact those people.

It appears there are no plenty of them available. These seem to be newly manufactured by the same company that made them 40 yrs ago. https://www.ebay.com/itm/124496927399?fbclid=IwAR3KrOFEH9iICLmAP_FW4c-Xj9p57_oujCkrw1SIGwEI0_xzNOvj6ElR-kQ

This may be stating the obvious, but you do know that there are a host of operating and service manuals on this site? Here is the schematic for the M500t: https://thecarversite.com/manuals/mandir/Carver M-500t service manual.pdf

Keep in mind that with speakers that old, there is a significant chance that the surrounds, or the diaphragm itself of the Walsh speaker may have some problems. Problems. Probably only a handful of people in the country who can work on them. One of the companies that can work on them, they actually repaired. My focal t-120s, is called speaker repair pros in garden Grove, California Speaker Repair Pros 10382 Stanford Ave J, Garden Grove, CA 92840 (714) 591-5082 https://g.co/kgs/9hSQge

Yeah! Now I got to figure out how I'm going to get them from Georgia to California! LOL

VMPS bandwagon here again...sorry. I'm not quite sure if these would play loud enough or have enough bass for you. https://www.ebay.com/itm/224632375417?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5336466135&toolid=10001&customid=23608X823435X8ff82d54cf2db6abb4e6971517a20a87 But, in actuality, these speaker won many top awards and reviews in their day. All the mainstream and golder ear reviewers put they in number 1, 2, or 3 of the best speakers they had ever heard. I believe they won Best In Show at the CES more than once.

Any of these speakers on the last page I think you'd love, if they was a way to ship or you could go get them. https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=c89a3ejqouci0bqvak7i1dtft1&topic=122314.1260

I encourage you to still look for some VMPS Super Towers and solve your search! Lol

Were there any other speakers on the market sold that had unlimited RMS power ratings like the 901s? (Which also almost needed unlimited power, lol)

To be perfectly honest with you....these speakers would be worth the 4-5 hr drive for you. I have them. They play very loud (up to 120db), they are very efficient (95-99db depending on version), very low distortion, very musical, can reproduce bass better than most any other speaker (down to 22Hz at 110db)....guarantee you would love them. You can search for old reviews of them and they are all great, even by the golden ears of mags such as Stereophile and Absolute Sound.

HI Rob, Can you clarify for me...I know you are searching for some good speakers, but within a budget. So, when you buy all these different speakers, do then sell them if you don't like them? What part of the country are you located in? https://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/ele/d/russellton-vmps-tower-speaker/7341284812.html

The $35 shipping is interesting.. you can send it by Media Mail for about $3 bucks. Don't know what insurance would cost though

Understood.. but, I'm not really sure what your budget is. Older legacy vmps's can be had for less than $1,000 a pair.

Hmmm.. well, with the number of speakers you've gone through looking for something with good sound, I was very surprised you would have considered these. They aren't talked about in the best of terms in the short amount of research I just did on them. If you've got money to spend, go ahead and replace the woofers, but obviously make sure you do it with the exact correct one with the right Thiel parameters. If not, I would just get rid of them and again, consider VMPS. LOL. Just saying

Damn, I knew I should have bought some of those discs way back when! I have several sealed copies of dark side of the Moon, one of steely Dan Asia and a couple of others that I don't really remember that are in my garage, but they're all the original omr recordings, not the uhqr ones.

Sorry, I wasn't real clear in my questions/comment.. Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs first produced their audiophile Original Master Recordings, OMR, in the 70s. Then in the early 80s they came out with their UHQR, Ultra High Quality Recordings, which were on heavier vinyl, and used JVCs proprietary Supervinyl. I was wondering if that super vinyl is the same as today's super vinyl. They also changed some of the mastering and pressing techniques to make the discs better as well. They were about double the cost of their regular O My R discs. So I didn't know if they were really worth the price back then. I quickly tried to look up exactly what was different in the uhqr disks, but wasn't able to find anything specific. There is a little bit of info on the new Mofi website, and Wikipedia In 1977 Mobile Fidelity began to produce a line of records known as "Original Master Recording" vinyl LPs. These albums were previously released by other companies, licensed by Mobile Fidelity, and remastered by a process called half-speed mastering. During mastering, sound was transferred from magnetic tape to disc while the cutting lathe moved at half speed. The albums were remastered from the original analog master tapes, without compression, and with minimal equalization. The recordings were pressed in Japan on "Supervinyl", a plastic compound invented by JVC to compensate for the demands of quadraphonic Compatible Discrete 4 records, which had been introduced in 1972. JVC Supervinyl was more durable than regular vinyl, with lower surface noise and fewer pops and clicks. Mobile Fidelity packaged their albums in heavy cardboard sleeves, inner cardboard stiffeners, and plastic liners

Interesting. Is this the same way they did it 30-40 yrs ago when they first introduced it?

Wow! I've got quite a MFSL vinyl discs, but none of the ultra discs, because I just didn't see why they would be any better simply because they're 120 g heavier. Lol Also have a bunch of Sheffield Lab discs, and Nautilus Superdiscs. Telarc made some great classical recordings as audiophile discs as well. Including one of the most famous records ever... Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. You can actually visibly see the 6Hz cannon shot grooves with your naked eye. Only one cartridge that I know of was ever able to track that groove, and that was the Shure V15 type V. Now, if I could only find an exact replacement for that cartridge... Sigh

Here's a set of the latest and one of the best VMPS speakers for sale, including what is probably one of the very best center channel speakers ever made: https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=122314.msg1856189#msg1856189 The RM40 won the 2002 CES Best Speaker in Show award: http://pointillistic.com/vmps-audio/RM40.htm They were something like $6000 a pair, and the LRC center channel speaker was over $1000. Here's and interesting article he wrote about the ridiculous pricing of high end speakers: https://www.audaud.com/audaud/JAN01/cheney.html Reviews of his various speakers: http://pointillistic.com/vmps-audio/reviews.htm Technical FAQ: http://pointillistic.com/vmps-audio/technical.htm http://pointillistic.com/vmps-audio/faq.htm Photo Gallery: https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=41748.0 Price list: http://pointillistic.com/vmps-audio/pricing.htm Obviously I'm a fan. LOL In short, they can take as much power as you can throw at them, and I don't think I've ever heard of anybody being dissatisfied with any of his speakers.

I'd probably repost in: https://thecarversite.com/forum/25-carver-pro-amps/ Also, your service and instruction manuals can be found here: https://thecarversite.com/carvermanuals/

Yes, I plan on using the AVR's Audyseey function for EQing, but I know I'll still have to find the right placement for the subs. It seems weird calling them subs when they are actually smaller than my main speakers.