Carver Silver Seven t amps (2)
yellow2000corvette
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Greetings! thank you, in advance, for your help!
I am getting ready to sell these 2 amps for a friend. Upon powering them up, the VU needle on one of them is swinging erratically.
Your thoughts, please? Thanks, again!
I am getting ready to sell these 2 amps for a friend. Upon powering them up, the VU needle on one of them is swinging erratically.
Your thoughts, please? Thanks, again!
Answers
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Have you considered the Carver site, or maybe authorized Carver repair shops?
https://carveraudiorepair.com/
Roland is an outstanding technician! -
yellow2000corvette wrote: »Greetings! thank you, in advance, for your help!
I am getting ready to sell these 2 amps for a friend. Upon powering them up, the VU needle on one of them is swinging erratically.
Your thoughts, please? Thanks, again!
Never power up a tube amp without a load, aka speakers.Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk -
yellow2000corvette wrote: »Greetings! thank you, in advance, for your help!
I am getting ready to sell these 2 amps for a friend. Upon powering them up, the VU needle on one of them is swinging erratically.
Your thoughts, please? Thanks, again!
Never power up a tube amp without a load, aka speakers.
No tubes, these are the SS monoblocs. -
Ah, ok.Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk -
Bad capacitors in the power supply. Quite common at the age of these amps. Send them to Greg at Nelson Audio - he’s a fantastic tech and is fully authorized by Bob Carver (in fact, he’s probably working with Bob right now at Carverfest).
https://nelionaudio.com/“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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