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01-21-2018, 10:36 AM
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I meant beastly specs: 350 WPC etc.
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It sounds great! Doesn't have a power switch however.
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01-21-2018, 07:19 AM
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I had one once and it was hard to tame. Loved to play loud music all the time!
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01-21-2018, 10:39 AM
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Are you getting and low level hum? IIRC there was a mod to add a ground wire recommended on the Carver site.
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01-28-2018, 12:14 AM
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Are you getting and low level hum? IIRC there was a mod to add a ground wire recommended on the Carver site.
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Yeah I can hear it on my sensitive Klipsch RB-5s between songs. On my less sensitive (88db) KEF iQ50s the hum is there but not nearly as loud.
I like the amp so far and it sounds pretty creamy tubey with the Klipsch speakers, especially on vinyl. (I am driving it with a tube pre-amp).
I am not going to mess with the inside but will keep playing it stock until it blows up. I am not that good at soldering and sort of skeptical of the automatic urge for everyone to recap stuff. The hum is part of this beast and not noticeable while music play.
Now I am tempted to try the Hafler amp I found a year ago.
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01-28-2018, 05:22 AM
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I found it to be a very nice amp that if a failing was to be found. It would of been the lack of a comfortable low level listening setting, it was either to low or jumped to loud, no gradual volume increase from one to like three. Kept it for awhile then moved on to a M500t and let it go on to another.
I did the mod to mine and it is BTW not that hard to do, never noticed much of a change. On the recap issue, doing the power supplies and output amplifier sections on any new to me gear I plan on keeping around is pretty much normal.
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01-28-2018, 09:36 AM
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I just don't want to open up anything anymore. I found it for $10 bucks. I don't want to pay for the new caps and put the time in. I have three sets of speakers hooked up to it so I can manipulate the volume. Between my weak soldering skills and aging Carver engineered capacitors I will take my chances on the latter. I am sort of skeptical about the need to always recap everything.
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Congrats Ice, and I feel the same. No more recapping, refurbing etc. It will then also bump up the intrinsic value unless you do all the work yourself, forcing you to keep it rather move on to something else. I prefer to move on.
Once again a great find.
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01-28-2018, 10:51 AM
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Congrats Ice, and I feel the same. No more recapping, refurbing etc. It will then also bump up the intrinsic value unless you do all the work yourself, forcing you to keep it rather move on to something else. I prefer to move on.
Once again a great find.
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Thanks!
This thing will probably outlast me lol.
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01-28-2018, 10:57 AM
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I prefer to move on.
Once again a great find.
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Moveon.org
A restless soul, sometimes you end up moving in a circle.
Audio is exasperating.
I recently literally gave away some tube sets and some nice Sansui pieces.
Now I have an hitch for a MC 240, which was a model I owned many years ago. I am trying to ignore this feeling because I know it gonna cost me some.
But, hey, what an old fart like me going to do with money?
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01-28-2018, 04:42 PM
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Moveon.org
A restless soul, sometimes you end up moving in a circle.
Audio is exasperating.
I recently literally gave away some tube sets and some nice Sansui pieces.
Now I have an hitch for a Mac 240, which was a model I owned many years ago. I am trying to ignore this feeling because I know it gonna cost me some.
But, hey, what an old fart like me going to do with money?
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I suffer from upgraditis and some times boredom. Like currently have a borrowed MC7300 and now I want to buy one as upgrade. And the prices have shot up. Never ends.....
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