Carver C1 going through rework

[mr_rye89]

I may try to use photo shop or any other photo editing software to get the Jpeg down to just the 1 view instead of the 3 views which will make it easy to convert it. They said if you post the JPEG on Imgur photo web site that you can load it from there and eliminate this bullshit. The program I'm using is a pain in the ass but I'll try later this way later after I eat a big ol NY Strip and Corn on the cob and a couple beers. . I'll ask the moderator for some assistance since I haven't done it on that site with that software.

Yep I'm in the process of decluttering the plan so I can vector-ize it for CAD. I also rewired the regulator board and deleted R404/405

 

[VSAT88]

The RCA plates are scarce these days. I bought the last 3 from AJ and I only got 1 left. I have the drawing for it and I was thinking that instead of having them made of the heavy aluminum, I was going to scan it into the PCB site I use and have some spun up out of PCB material (they also make the pcb's out of aluminum but don't know the cost yet). Having them built by a machine shop is going to be too expensive. If I use the board house, I could try and have Plated through holes where the RCA's go through to toughen them up. ???? Just thinkin out loud.


Speaking of doing the RCA mod, I had a customer send me their C1 for some upgrades a couple months ago and I did the RCA mod on it (among other things) and had to do some repairs just to test it before I started working on it. Well, it turned out nice and tested quiet as a mouse, and when I shipped it back, I got a couple rude comments about the Red and Black RCA's I installed and the person said "It's common practice to use Red and White RCA's so you don't get them mixed up"!!!! Well, the chinee dude I use for my RCA source (26 per C1) only has red and black so that's what I use. The red and black bands on the jacks are just little rubber bands so I told the person to take the black rubbers off, go to hobby lobby and get a REAL small paint brush and a small bottle of white paint put the jacks in the drill and as it spins, paint the recessed area where the black band was, and put a couple coats on and wipe any drunk slippage off. Well customer was upset and then I showed the pic of the back of his unit that was sent to me and I said "What the Fuck, this is how buffalo Bob makes them" NO COLOR ON ANY RCA, see pic below. Never heard back from the person. If you have a special request on color, size, material etc.... Put it in your request for service, I will bend over backwards to try and accommodate my customers with green knobs, pink face plates pretty much whatever they want (or if they are brave and let me decide, you never know what I'll come up with but some people are just miserable and want YOU to be the same way..... Fuck that..... Anyway, I had a customer local wanted his C-1 done too so I took the black rubber bands off, and put the rca's in the chuck and painted the recess which Looked nice but thats several extra hours of work so I have to charge for it now. I did this one for nothing extra just to try my own suggestion. I had a whole list of shit to fix before I could work on the rude customers C1. The metal caps fell off all the knobs (extra time to fix them), most of the screw holes were stripped out, hardware missing, the whole unit looked like it was rode hard and put away wet. How's about you clean your shit before shipping and make a list for me telling me what condition it's in so I can utilize my time more efficiently???????????????????? I have to test it before and after to show our upgrades/mods do as expected. If it shows up broke dick, and I need to fix it first, then somethings got to give........ OK, enough said. If I get a free minute, I'll see if I can upload the drawing at the board house and see what Wun Hung Lo is going to charge me, maybe we can do a group grope Kyle since it's cheaper by the dozen.


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I'm just about finished with a local C1 and the RCA plate looks fine and he can see the R and the L on the back so I didn't have to paint shit.

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Forgive me if I am wrong but every pre amp I recall fucking with the Left inputs are on the top and the Right inputs are on the bottom just like this one. I am sure there are exceptions, probably more than a few but I know for a fact they do not put a Left on bottom then two Rights then a Left and a Right again like that mixing them up and down so what exactly is dude bitching about? Is he plugging and un plugging his gear each time and looking at it every time before playing it or something?? Red, Yellow, Black, White, Orange, as long as the top and bottom are all the same color what difference does it make? Sounds like you ran into a Jackass Sniff.

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

Forgive me if I am wrong but every pre amp I recall fucking with the Left inputs are on the top and the Right inputs are on the bottom just like this one. I am sure there are exceptions, probably more than a few but I know for a fact they do not put a Left on bottom then two Rights then a Left and a Right again like that mixing them up and down so what exactly is dude bitching about? Is he plugging and un plugging his gear each time and looking at it every time before playing it or something?? Red, Yellow, Black, White, Orange, as long as the top and bottom are all the same color what difference does it make? Sounds like you ran into a Jackass Sniff.

Naw, just the black jack instead of white

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

Yep I'm in the process of decluttering the plan so I can vector-ize it for CAD. I also rewired the regulator board and deleted R404/405

Kyle, I had to call in the "Big Dog" to assist us getting the shit done correctly and we can do a Proto Test Install here in a couple weeks after I get a couple samples. Getting the Gerber Files required some brain cells, so we'll get this "C-1 RCA Upgrade" kit available to all us builders and maybe Joe can offer them on his site. Joe saves the day

I'll work on an upgrade direction page to go with them. We simplified the install be adding a ground system without 13-26 wires.

 

[mr_rye89]

Sounds good to me, I'm in no hurry to do that upgrade

 

[mr_rye89]

Continued testing. I altered the gain Structure of the MiniDSP (2V in/2V out on unbalanced connections) and the C-1, I may still use less gain on the C-1. The MiniDSP acts as the crossover/delay/post EQ, C-1 back in for volume control/defeatable tone control/tape loop/primary input switching/sonic hologram. The Schiit Mani doing DAC duty so digital to analog to digital to analog
Gundry filter be the next mod