michaelwjones

The PF2 superseded the PF1.The line stage circuits were virtually identical. The PF2 maintained the exceptional parts quality standards of the PF1. Capacitors were polypropylene and cjd polystyrene including the power supply filter caps. All resistors were 1% metal-oxide deposited on glass construction. Input/output connectors were upgraded from those found in the PF1. Noted for the lucidity and harmonic balance of the cj vacuum-tube preamps, the PF2 refined the achievements of the PF-1 with the superb definition and detail of transistor designs. Features: Inputs/Outputs Aux/Phono Tuner CD Tape 1 Tape 2 Rec 1 and Rec 2 outputs Main outputs. Controls: Source Record (selects source for the Record outputs) Balance Volume Specifications: Line Stage 20 dB Distortion: less than .1% THD or IMD Response: bandpass 2Hz to more than 100kHz S/N Ratio: Line Stage 94 dB below 2.5 volt output Mechanical: 19″ x 3.315″ x 14 3/8″ In very good shape with no cosmetic or sonic issues. Includes well worn original packing. No manual, but available online: https://conradjohnson.com/vintage-conrad-johnson-products/ $550 including insurance & shipping to you. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks. Mike

Good call. My brother used PayPal for a raffle for his non-profit Ham radio club. PayPal seized the account proceeds stating it was gambling and a violation of the EULA. Litigation was required and PayPal ultimately capitulated but the club did not have the funds to two years.

Digital package of transport & DAC. The PerfectWave memory player plays both standard and high resolution audio on CDs and DVD-Rs sending perfect digital audio data from its solid state memory directly to your DAC and then onto your loudspeakers, eliminating jitter. All music extracted from your CD or DVD-R disc plays from the PWT's internal solid state memory, not the disc itself. PS Audio’s Digital Lens technology buffers the incoming data stream and re-clocks it before sending it forward to the DAC. It does this whilst maintaining the native sample rate. In other words, this is not sample rate conversion in disguise. The DAC has multiple digital input switchable from the remote. Additionally, multiple digital filters are available. Unit has variable output (“volume”) allowing use as a pre-amplifier. The combo is in very good cosmetic, mechanical and sonic condition with no known issues. The piano black tops still have their plastic covering. I am downsizing and this is from a second system. The package (I will not separate) includes two remotes, factory packaging for both units and manuals. $2000 plus insurance and shipping. Please email any questions. Thanks.

Just in case a flea watt amp is not to your liking, please consider this 250 watt per channel powerhouse from Conrad Johnson. This special “SE” version achieves further refinement in imaging, focus, and detail by upgrading a dozen or more critical capacitors to our proprietary CJD Teflon hybrid capacitors and a couple of dozen resistors to precision metal foil types. https://conradjohnson.com/mf2550-and-mf2275-solid-state-amplifiers/ Purchased new in the box two years ago and used in second system. No sonic or cosmetic issues whatsoever. Specs: 250 Watts per channel from 20 Hz to 20 KHz at no more than 1.0% THD or IMD, both channels driven into 8 ohms. Sensitivity: 2.0 Volts rms to rated power Frequency Response (at 10 Watts): 20 Hz to 20 kHz, +/- .1 dB Hum and Noise:100 dB below rated power Input Impedance: 100 KOhms Dimensions: 16.25D x 19W x 6.125H inches Weight: 52 lb. net Includes factory packaging, manual and power cord. $3500 plus shipping. Please email any questions. Thanks.

You should alert Musk: "Elon Musk faces a $15 billion tax bill" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/07/elon-musk-faces-a-15-billion-tax-bill-which-is-likely-the-real-reason-hes-selling-stock.html

I bought a pair of Forte IVs 2 months ago to tide me over until I find my 'horns and this is what the grills look like today. Yes, new in the box A stock in a climate controlled listening room. Anyone else having issues with their Forte IV grills puckering? Just curious. I thought I read something, somewhere about this, but can't locate it today. Interestingly, if you go to the Klipsch website, in a photograph towards to bottom in the Forte IV section, the grill in the black ash speaker looks (to me) to be sagging into the speaker cutouts. $5K retail speakers shouldn't do this. Mike

They are are getting ready to pay their taxes. Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, et al., have sold billions (billions!) of dollars of their stock during the last 12 months in preparation of paying taxes. Google it.

In certain areas, Verizon has 5G ultrawide band for the home. You can check availability on the site: https://www.verizon.com/5g/home/

Duplicate; sorry.

That was exactly the advice my tax law professor gave us. Good records work like a charm when you use a good accountant.

Below his avatar it states "Baton Rouge LA"

Travis: I stand corrected. I found the Klipschtape insert announcing the organ recital which was hard to find. However, the best part is I have on cut from it on a CD! Alas no button even though it was the first item I put in the cart. No big deal; I'll get one later. Please save your postage. Thanks again. Mike

Received mine with poster & cling, but no advertising material or button 😞

This is an interesting post from a Carver owners on Audiogon: "i just had my amp in for a check (some tube noise and transformer hum) at wyred 4 sound - w4s is the exclusive contract manufacturer for these crimson amps had a friendly chat with their senior tech who worked on my amp - i know the w4s guys reasonably well, like them, have several pieces of their gear (digital, power supply, class d amps), w4s is a good company, well designed well built, good sounding high value gear, good reputation, and straight shooters in my book i was told that based on their bench experience, the crimson amp can make 75w driving one channel... (didn’t ask for frequency range spec, sorry), can’t in both channels though (’more like 60 thru both channels’), but this isn’t due to the output transformers as limiting factor, but rather, the power transformer, which can’t quite deliver the juice for 75 wpc asked how such a small light tube amp makes that kind of power, was told that the reason is the kt120’s are pretty strong, plus ’the neat feedback circuit employed from the output, holds the distortion in check, other guys don’t do this, we were kinda surprised it can do that through those small output transformers...’ " https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/peeking-inside-a-carver-crimson-275-tube-amplifier?lastpage=true&page=3#2314379

Agreed and perhaps our salvation as the best marketplace to allow upgrades. I am still a wee bit concerned; corporate gave us a playground and told us to play nice, but that sometimes doesn't happen and on occasion, gets personal & ugly. If I was retained by corporate to assess risk & potential liability, my first advice to them would be the shut the entire forum down. My second option would be to eliminate the lounge completely substituting a strict music section instead and to clean up the garage sale. Then I would implement active moderation to cull out repeat offenders of the terms of service. At that point, corporate accounting see my bill, ask "WTF?" perform a risk benefit analysis and i think you know the outcome of that. What we must ry to avoid is pushing them to a position where they hire an a** like me to do that. Just my opinion, which with 99 cents, gets you a large coffee at McDonald's.

When you suggested changing to the correct size transformer for the claimed output, will the Crimson power supply as designed handle that improvement? Would they be able to have the proper taps? BTW, did you review the schematic for the specs of the transformers specified in Bob's design?

I never read or heard why; it was just gone when I began looking for a "new to me" network card. But RandyH may be on to something. The cessation occurred about the same time PS ended its retail relationships and took sales direct.. It would not be unreasonable if one was creating a direct sale model to remove both the current retail side and the [corparately sponsored] pre-owned marketplace. Why would you want to sponsor something that potentially cuts into your retail sales? That's why I was there: to save a few bucks off retail. And that potentiality worries me here if corporate takes a close look at the forum garage sale (not to mention some of the other postings...). Humor me, but if the garage sale took just one retail sale of a pair of LSII away by someone buying used on the forum instead AND I was paying the freight for the hosting and bandwidth of that forum which facilitated that sale, I might be asking: why? Corporate needs to support (and needs the support of) Heritage retailers. The loss of that one sale may not be significant to B&H or Cory, but would be a big hit for New England Hi-Fi. Just saying.

I'd favor the guidelines Crankysoldermeister posted from the Hinderer page. The Garage Sale is for sales & WTB. The are multiple other places on the forum we can post our thoughts, opinions and preferences (within the TOS) other than on the Garage Sale. BTW, PS Audio did away with the marketplace section in their forum last year. I'd hate to lose this avenue because Corporate carefully reviewed the postings.

I think we need to keep in mind several of our forum mates now find themselves in a very uncomfortable position & empathy for them is the order of the day. But on the silver-lining side, we have the speakers to mate with this amp and make it sound as was intended.

At the end of the day, I have yet to see anyone on any forum say the amp does not sound fantastic. While it's tough to see what may have happened, isn't that why we do what we do in our spare time? Reach for fantastic sound? Bob should be congratulated on that, but I suspect someone will have to pay the piper for how it was marketed.

Oh my; not good. A Crimson owner on Audiogon removed his transformer covers and they are 15w Edcors. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/peeking-inside-a-carver-crimson-275-tube-amplifier?page=3 Wow.

I wish I had said this: "If an audio company is able to violate some fundamental law of physics, chemistry, magnetics, etc., these are the kinds of discoveries that win you Nobel prizes and millions of dollars. A transformer lamination alloy that would allow for significantly higher flux density than what we have now would be worth a lot of money. This kind of tech tends to trickle down into audio rather than the other way around." https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/carver-crimson-275-measurements.29271/page-13

That's the real issue; you love the synergy in your system and had someone said nothing about the specs, but to just listen to the sound (like we all should be doing), you'd be happy. I shudder to think of the equipment I've knowingly purchased and not kept because it ultimately didn't work out or overpaid for but decided to keep it.

Bob knows this; the specs for his Silver 7 state: Amplifier Chassis: 55 lbs. (25 Kgs) x 2, Power Supply Chassis: 45 lbs. (20.4 Kgs) x 2

I just found another link to that manual, it does not state "peak" either. https://9d0691c9-2bb0-4a51-acf2-a4e121ccc931.filesusr.com/ugd/7c4708_fe81ce14b4b54e618bcfd77c7628d241.pdf