Recent content by Briant8

Always a good idea!

Was considering doing a recap on it. But now considering sending for a Mkii conversion…

Great idea, thanks!

Calling any and all Carver gurus, There I was, just listening to some nice tunes with my Carver M500t and suddenly, burning smell, fuse blows, and silence… Crack her open and r181 is toasted. Nothing else looks affected (to the naked eye). I’ve done a fair bit of repair/ recapping, etc. but...

Thank you both, that was the issue. All is finally well in ST-7 land! Brian

Ohhhhh.... good thought! Let me look into how to check that. Thanks!

Hi All, So I just dove into my first ST-7, replaced tracking wheel, belts, DeOxit on pots, etc... After much frustration, cussing, cajoling and downright threatening (it never seemed to listen at all, btw) it’s up and running and sounding great. My issue is that the strobe speed is off. When...

Right!? It looks close to a few of them, but nothing matches, grrrrr....

Hi Collective! I found this stray singleton and can’t seem to find any info on it. Just wanted to know if it’s of enough consequence to repair or not. It’s a Yamaha 4563 tweeter. It looks to have a 1” beryllium diaphragm. Any thoughts as to what it belongs to? Thanks!

Well, My buddy lost interest in deeper diagnostics, so I buttoned her back up, for now anyways. Thanks all for the help!

Unfortunately not pieces of equipment in the arsenal just yet...

Well, Made a bit of headway. Cleaned all 523 pots and switches again as well as the speaker clips, and managed to retrieved the rear left channel from the upside down. However, the right front is still missing in action :( Interestingly, I’m am now getting bleed-through sound on all 3 good...

Ah, good to know. This one doesn’t have the pre-out/ amp in scheme or I would have tried the test the preamp/amp tactic. Or is there another way to test them independently?

Yeah, tried that hoping to hear any scratchiness at all in any control. Wasn’t any evident, but I’m hitting them all again.

Oh, and I did pull the lid off and clean the relay (it actually looked a lot nicer than some others I’ve been into) One thread I saw mentioned that the level set (4 banger) pot was bad. I did manage to extract it enough to clean it, but it is a mother to get to... I’ll check on the speaker...