The Great Artiste 6 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Hello everyone, I've known and admired Carver from at least the late '70s. Wonderful innovative equipment, way ahead of its time. When I started out in this hobby in the 70s, that was cutting edge technology for audio. I built two mono amplifiers & a Hafler pre-amp from kits. When I went shopping for a tuner in my local Hi-Fi shop, I compared several tuners. Denon and Carver. Denon sounded more like a typical tube sound. The Carver TX-2 was more accurate to my ears. So I bought it. Few years later I was reading a diy magazine and high-speed diodes for power supplies. Grabbed my attention. I put them into the tuner. Not sure if it made any difference though. Recently I tried picking up FM signal where I live now. It's a poor reception area but I had a very good indoor VHF TV antenna. No output, no signal strength on the meter. Yesterday I brought it over to someone's house that had excellent reception. Hooked it up to the original sansui receiver. The output jack board was loose and I must have shorted it with my modern RCA cables. I opened it up and tried to hold the board so I could plug in. I think it's shorted everything out. What looks like the fuse smoked and burnt. I immediately shut it down. So I came back to the site to find a service manual. I'm going to repair it myself. I think I'll be able to do it with a simple fix. I'm looking forward to digging deeper into this community's interests. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3M_Audio 883 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Welcome. Good luck with the tuner repair - definitely worth some effort for repair/alignment if you're still listening to radio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ar9Jim 6,061 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Welcome to TCS Sir. Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cring08 149 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Welcome! There is a wealth of knowledge on this forum! Also, great people always willing to help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenith4me 1,386 Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Welcome to TCS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt 1,393 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Welcome to the Carver Site! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobTFM35 1,626 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 @The Great Artiste Welcome to the Carver Site!! Only one other time have I seen your screen name and it was used here, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrf 3,829 Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 On 1/1/2024 at 12:48 AM, The Great Artiste said: So I came back to the site to find a service manual. I'm going to repair it myself. I think I'll be able to do it with a simple fix. Welcome to the site. Congratulations of finding the TX-2 service manual. Not everybody finds the manuals that quickly. Hopefully your problem is a simple one. Keep us posted on your progress. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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