HiFiRich1409

Thank you all for your kind replies. Let me ask this: What recordings have you had success with to demonstrate and fine tune the Holographic effect? I've used this before to lock in the phase response of my Shiit Stack headphon setup with the five band Loki. The recording was done live with two mics and I believe straight to tape: Also please advise on your preferred settings of the Injection and Listening control buttons: in or out? My speakers are six and a half feet apart. That's my photo bomber Pebbles. HiFiRich 😎

Hi fellow Carverites, I’ve been curious about Carver Holography since its inception. Yes, I’m 76 and was budded to be an audiophile since buying a Grado FCE+ cartridge for my Garrad TT in the late seventies. I’ve read about every issue of audio mags and newsletters from Stereo Review and The Audio Critic to Stereophile and TAS. I built what I consider to be a very economical high end system using suggestions from trusted reviewers with the Blessing of my wonderful understanding Wife who’d since passed. Feeling somewhat unworthy since then, I seldom visit the required ‘Dedicated Listening Room’ where it resides. Instead I’ve used that acquired HiFi knowledge to scour EBay, Mercari and USAduiomart to find known quality units at cut rate prices. From them I’ve found: an NAD CD, Sangean HD FM, OPPO DVD and pairs of KEF Q150s and ELAC Atmos speakers. I bought a Dayton Audio HTA100 tube buffered integrated amp from Parts Express and quality cabling from Usedcable.com Then one day at work scanning the Audiomart I saw a C9! I’d all but forgotten about it. I thought “Why not?” I’ve got a clear, fairly phase accurate system, what with the two pairs of speakers with coaxial point sources drivers. All of the sources (save the TV, whose sound is served addiquitly by a ZVOX soundbar) pass through an Andover Audio SongBird streamer that’s probably the best $89 I’ve ever spent to the C9 and then to the HTA100. I downloaded the C9 manual from here and though I lack the space behind the speakers to meet the required parameters, I do sit in the proper location and have toed in the speakers as advised. Well sorry that I’ve “gone ‘round Robin Hood’s barn” to get to the conclusion that it sounds magnificent! Despite the Vienna Acoustic Bachs and Cary amp upstairs, I’m locked into the brilliant spacious soundstage the C9 has brought to my couch. Combo Jazz to live BSO concerts or DVD Opera, I’ve found the long sought after audiophile ‘Holy Grail’! Thank you Bob and Greg, HiFiRich 😎