Carver Gear and Polk Speakers on Craigslist in NC

[Conradicles]

Of course no affiliation, but this could be a sweet deal...and as always...talk him way down on the price.


http://charlotte.craigslist.org/ele/1358533941.html

[leroyjr1]

Nice deal

[Ron Temple]

Yeah, this one shouldn't be passed up...there's a ton of you guys in that area. Someone should step up.

[treitz3]

He's right around the corner from me but I don't need any of it. Already got a system for the youngin' to enjoy when he gets old enough.

[concealer404]

That's almost tempting to me if i trusted the car with enough room to go that far...

[WastelandWand'r]

I would pay that for the speakers themselves.
Don't look that shabby in the photos. Lucky east coasters.
Oh well,
Nathan

[comfortablycurt]

I would pay that for the speakers themselves.
Don't look that shabby in the photos. Lucky east coasters.
Oh well,
Nathan

+1

I've seen RTA-15TL's sell for that much by themselves.

[Bubinga99]

from the ad: "Carver Sonic Holography Preamplifer Tuner, Model CT-Seven"

Ah, I vaguely remember those. Doesn't the universe implode or something, if you combine Sonic Holography with SDA?

I don't remember that much about Sonic Holography, but I do remember a stereo salesman practically blowing a fuse when I asked him to patch their Carver SH gear through to the Polk SDA's. Oh no, you never want to combine the two...they're like oil and water, he said.

[lukewayne]

if some one near the ad wanted the speakers and preamp but not the amp, i'd buy the amp off them :P
cheapish, 100+shipping.

[treitz3]

fI don't remember that much about Sonic Holography, but I do remember a stereo salesman practically blowing a fuse when I asked him to patch their Carver SH gear through to the Polk SDA's. Oh no, you never want to combine the two...they're like oil and water, he said.

He was correct. ;)

[lightman1]

E-mail sent. Thanks Eric. Fingers crossed.

[Bubinga99]

He was correct. ;)

Refresh my memory if you could. Was it that S-H used filtering and delays in the preamp to achieve a similar goal as SDA, and they weren't perfectly matched so if you combined the two, you ended up with unnatural holes in part of the band and emphasis in others? Something like that?

[BB3]

My oh my, that is one serious deal. To far for me though.....

[TNRabbit]

Refresh my memory if you could. Was it that S-H used filtering and delays in the preamp to achieve a similar goal as SDA, and they weren't perfectly matched so if you combined the two, you ended up with unnatural holes in part of the band and emphasis in others? Something like that?

Pretty much; sounds like $h!t together.

[Paden501]

Pretty much; sounds like $h!t together.

Agreed. The combined affect sounds really weird. I tried listening to a Joe Satriani disk with both affects on once.... I could barely recognize what I was listening to.

[lukewayne]

if i'm not mistaken the sonic holography works by introducing a delay'd copy of each channel in the opposite channel at a low level. and sda works by playing part of the opposite channel in each speaker.

pretty much the same thing, sda by hardware, carver by software so to speak.

so you use them together, and its like you're in a echo chamber.

pretty sure you can disable sonic holography in the preamp.

[Paden501]

Echo chamber is a good analogy. And yes, at least on the reciever I was auditioning, it could be turned off.

The effect sounded nice with my monitor 4s or my father in law's RTRs though. It doesn't expand the soundstage as large as SDAs do, but if you closed your eyes, you could feel the stage get a bit deeper when you hit the holography button.

[gdb]

pretty sure you can disable sonic holography in the preamp.


You can.....and I do. SDA is way better IMO, but I use Carver gear exclusively and just disable the SH.:)

[mewisemagic]

i sent an email yesterday and still no reply:(

[lukewayne]

Echo chamber is a good analogy. And yes, at least on the reciever I was auditioning, it could be turned off.

The effect sounded nice with my monitor 4s or my father in law's RTRs though. It doesn't expand the soundstage as large as SDAs do, but if you closed your eyes, you could feel the stage get a bit deeper when you hit the holography button.

which RTR does your father in law have? my dad has a really nice condition set of the well i dont know the model numbers ... huge three sided ones with down fireing woofers. and a horrible condition set. last i heard he gave the electrostat tweeter add ons to his friend. (i'll be sure to get those back some day)

i basically grew up with those RTR speakers and i loved them. now i didn't know much about speakers, but i loved their sound. i'd have them in my place now if they weren't so huge. i'm disappointed about how little information is available online about them.

[messiah]

They are RTA not SDA so why is everyone so freaked out about them sounding like sh*t?

[mewisemagic]

looks like the carver stuff is on ebay now

[Paden501]

which RTR does your father in law have? my dad has a really nice condition set of the well i dont know the model numbers ... huge three sided ones with down fireing woofers. and a horrible condition set. last i heard he gave the electrostat tweeter add ons to his friend. (i'll be sure to get those back some day)

i basically grew up with those RTR speakers and i loved them. now i didn't know much about speakers, but i loved their sound. i'd have them in my place now if they weren't so huge. i'm disappointed about how little information is available online about them.

I'm really not sure which model he has. They look like short SDA-1Cs from the casual observer. They're about 3' tall and have grills that surround the sides, with wood tops and bottoms. They're 3-way with a 12" woofer. His aren't in great condition. They look good but the surrounds are all bad around the woofers. I keep telling him to replace the surrounds but he won't do it. He just has them in the basement now anyway because he put Definative floorstanders upstairs (sweet setup: definatives powered by a McIntosh reciever, Nakimachi CD player and a CV sub powered by a HH Scott tube amp)

[Paden501]

They are RTA not SDA so why is everyone so freaked out about them sounding like sh*t?

Yes the SH would sound good with those RTAs. I think that paring them with SDAs came up because someone was thinking about just buying the electronics or something.

It's a shame that it went to Ebay. That amp was probably worth $350 alone.

[lukewayne]

Paden you should take them and fix em up :P

i'm not finding the electronics on ebay, anyone have the link?

Nevermind, i think i found em, an ebay seller obviously bought them.