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Look here as well as ebay and US Audio Mart (iirc). You may be able to find things on fb marketplace depending on where you are located.

Coming late to this party, obviously - but if I recall, the original germ of this idea came from David Hafler when he was a designer for Dynaco. It was in Stereo Review back in the late 70's where I recall reading it as well. Here is the wiki link: Hafler Circuit

Without having access to a service manual, I am not sure if the 0.6V is low or is expected. If you have something as simple as a DMM w/continuity checker and a copy of the schematic, you can trace the signal path. That is the thing I would suggest. Others are far more experienced (I am sure there are a few retired techs who can offer far better advice than myself). Good luck.

I wont know the part numbers until I receive the bill. And even then, IT MAY NOT WORK. These are just the things Roland observed. 🤷‍♂️

The Saga of the 3200 continues on... So the last time we heard from our intrepid carverphile, he had picked up a Carver TL-3220 from ebay that had a 'bad playback motor'. Ok, so I said to myself "Self, for $100, this would be worth the risk to get the 3200 playing happily again." So the sacrificial lamb arrived a week later, and I made arrangements with Roland at Hi-Tech Audio in Stevenson, WA. (Lovely little town 50 mi east of me, and the snow was lovely.) Before I took both units east, I did a final bit of investigation. From past testing, a cd would skip on track 2 and at the outer edges of the disc. Well lo-and behold, I played two discs that played all the way through! Took the units to Roland with my notes of what I discovered. After some investigation on his part, and 2 more CDs that played all the way through, he found that a) the motor on my unit was starting to go bad and b) the motor on the sacrificial lamb had been replaced with a non-carver part. So motors are ordered, and both units may be up and running (or both may have other failures... who knows). The point is, I may have two Carvers, one i will sell to recover the cost of this crazy restoration.

Rest in Peace, Ralph Towner

Check the for the technical manual here at this site. That would be a good starting point.

Velkommen!

Sk1Bum, I have heard great things about KWPQ. I will give them a listen and add them to my station repertoire. Joe

Sk1Bum, actually considering the WiiM AirPlay 2. I was looking at the Arylic S10, but the Andriod app is incompatible with my J23 Samsung.

The bad part about the PNW is that good quality FM stations are hard to come by. There are maybe two that are not filled with talking ad nauseum and rampant "fund raising" (speaking of fund-raising, WTH is going to happen now that the Corp for Public Broadcasting closed up shop? (Political comments stuffed in the closet). I did happen to find a good station to stream from the Bay Area: https://kcsm.org/ It is A LOT better than my usual station (https://www.kmhd.org/) and had a more varied playlist (sorry KMHD, I can only listen to the same Kamasi Washington tune so many times before my ears get tired). I am still in the market for a digital streamer instead of my MacBook, so that will be a little better audio I expect.

Sk1bum, I like Brave New World, but Black Diamond really gets me in a happy place.

Andy Narell's The Hammer Carter/Jones/Watanabe/Williams Carnaval

One thing I have noticed of late (and could really use confirmation on) is that many of the manuals that are on hifi-engine are slolwy finding their way over to vinyl-engine which renders them IMPOSSIBLE to access UNLESS YOU HAVE AN ACCOUNT. The problem is, the owner of vinyl-engine also owns hifi-engine and they have restricted (read stopped) new accounts. I looked over at Electrotanya.com but they only have a service manual. I did see a few user manuals on ebay but they want $24 USD.

What specifically are you looking for? Just a Users Guide or other information, such as personal experience?

Ok, so the project I am working on: An indirect replacement for the nonsense known as discogs: Data tracking without all the nonsense. So I thought I would involve chatgpt to cut out some of the chafe. Big mistake. HUGE! On thing about vibe coding/chatgpt is, you the user HAVE TO KNOW what you are doing! It is one thing to be a complete noob about coding.. ANY CODING! but then the old garbage in/garbage out makes itself apparent. AI is, if one gets down to it, rather stupid and really DOESNT save a lot of time. But, it IS helpful for recalling commands that one has forgotten over time. Save your time and invest in other things besides AI stocks.

I also have a TL-3200 with a bad laser. Many people i have talked with (High Tech Audio and Espiron Audio) have both told me that laser heads are no longer made. DO NOT look for a compatible replacement. Sadly they don't exist (I was told a KSS-152A is compatible... it isnt). I had to buy a TL-3220 for parts (it has a bad motor). I am hoping to either fix the 3220 or 3200 and sell the remaing pieces (display, tray, MB, etc) for parts. Another source (and i wish I could find the web page) is that both Luxman and NAD CD players use the same read head as Carver tl-32XX series (DLBA-1 IIRC). Good luck with the TL Joe

Welcome Horace!

4krow - I tried to format better than what I was seeing from the desktop. Sorry for the poor execution. Sk1Bum - Access was a truly bad idea from m$.

Thank you Sk1bum!

BB King at the Hollywood Bowl

(stupid noobie)

So last month, after the latest discogs (dischogs?) update borked the Android app (and didnt do the website much in the way of favors either), I began a quest to create my own music curation library. Creating the database is the easy part, as is downloading my discogs library and filtering out the important features (artist name, title, year of release and a few other things). I have the DB populated and the install somewhat working and I can do a lot of work from the linux/OSX command-line interface (CLI). But now the fun begins! My ultimate goal is make this a standalone application that resides on either a desktop or a home network server. My OS of choice is Debian Linux but the install works on Linux (all flavors), Apple OS, and my Windows 10 VM. The fun part begins now: Coding the front-end! The idea is to have this run from a browser (pick a browser, any browser) and allow the user to upload records in single/batch mode, make edits to an entry and display the data based on search parameters. The fun part will be the API. The tricky part, and this is where I could use some feedback, creating something that can be accessible to the outside world. I would ultimately like to design it so that people can use this tool from their own network! This would require configuring their home network/desktop/whatever to allow outside access over a secure connection. It wouldn't tie into discogs, other than the initial data retrieval of your recordings. This is will simply show the curation of music that a given user has. It WILL NOT be located on a central server somewhere (no more sluggish behavior while trying to access discogs back-end). Just a simple application that allows you to make changes to your 'inventory'. No silly "Is this a specific pressing? Is it made of yellow vinyl vs black?" sort of nonsense. Just a way to track your inventory in a quick, simple browser interface on your home network (or perhaps your ISP if you have access to a and can utilize either MariaDB, MySQL or SQLite). The best thing is, it is open source and anyone will be able to download it make changes to improve the usability, accuracy, access speed. I suppose what I am looking for here is - would anyone be interested in using a tool like this, knowing you would have to be a part-time DB Admin? The good news is, the data involved would be somewhat small (it isn't like you are managing financial records where you can see upwards of 1.5M entries in a 24 hr period - trust me, it is a bloody pain in the ass). Thoughts? Ideas? Good idea or total rubbish?

As Halfbaked said - Rolland can work on most of your Carver gear. He has worked on my Carver CD player and will get my C-3 preamp for a cleaning and bloodletting soon.

Welcome Conrad! Nice setup you have! I am envious of the gear. Joe