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Conrad R R

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Hello fellow Carverites.  My name is Conrad and I've owned Carver audio equipment since 1988.  My audio equipment was placed in storage in 1995 as problems started to appear with the pre amp and power amp and I didn't have time to spend trouble shooting.  I retired in 2021 and decided to take it out of storage and get it back in

operation.

 

My audio system consists of:

 

-C1 pre-amp which I refurbished in 2022 with the BillD mod. Sounds great.

 

-M1.5t power amp which I re-capped and tuned in 2022.  Sounds great and is my main amplifier.

 

-PM1.5 power amp which I found at a pawn shop, I re-capped and tuned in 2024. The amp was in decent shape but had an intermittant right channel caused by several cold solder joints.  This is my back up amp to the M1.5t.

 

-TX 11a tuner. I haven't re-capped as it still operates well and sounds great.

 

-TL-3300 CD player which I am starting the re-cap process as the left audio channel has intermittant low-level crackling.

 

-KEF 104/2 speakers which I re-capped the crossovers with capacitors from Falcon Audio in the UK. Replaced the donuts of the woofers as they had deteriated. Cleaned and refreshed the ferrofluid in the tweeters as they had stopped working due to the 36 year old ferrofluid.

 

-Speaker cables are clones of Nordost Vahalla cables which I built myself In 2023.

 

-Turntable is an Oracle Alexandria MK III in gloss black with a Sumiko tonearm and Dyna Vector DV-20x2 MC cartridge.  The turntable suspension was rebuilt with OEM components along with a new belt and a new DV cartridge installed in 2023.

 

-Phono stage is a MOON 110LP which was pre-owned but not abused.

 

My music is rock, jazz, blues from vinyl and CDs.

 

I apologize for being so long winded, my background is that of an electronic engineering technologist from nearly 40 years ago.  In my early years while in college, I worked as a bench technician for a TV and Stereo shop. After I graduated from college I worked as an electrician / electronic technologist at a large steel plant.  I left there in '91 to pursue a different career until retirement.

 

I'll post photos of the audio system once I'm able to.

 

P.S. I downloaded the service manual for the TL-3300 CD player and noticed the schematic and other pages are missing from the PDF file.  I wonder if any one has noticed this and my have a complete service manual.

 

Thanks for reading, I look forward to chatting with you.

 

Regards, Conrad.

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Sk1Bum

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Hello Conrad R R and welcome to thecarversite.com. Glad you found us.

 

Nice set of gear there, and congrats on keeping it up to speed. I'm sure you'll fit right in here.

 

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BobTFM35

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@Conrad R R  Welcome to the Carver Site!!

 

Here is the Schematic that is missing from the sites copy. This copy has a little bit of an overlap and that's the way that I found it.

 

Carver tl-3300 SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM.pdf     @wrf 

 

The pdf numbering doesn't account for when two pages were scanned at the same time and that happened several times. 

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Kurt

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Welcome to the Carver Site!  Nice set of gear you have there!  I have a C1 and m1.5t's myself.  Love the combo.  Post pics when you are able to do so!

Half Life

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Welcome from VA!  Enjoy your stay!

 

Nice suite of equipment you have!

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AndrewJohn

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Welcome, @Conrad R R, you'll fit right in here...

 

Would love to see you create some threads on your projects..., restorations, etc..., we LOVE pictures, too! 😉 

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