[Peter Wieck]

On Sunday, May 28, 2017 at 11:58:56 AM UTC-4, wrote:
Hello Jim , I too have a CT-17 with the same channel problems . Did they =
tell you what the problem was and what they did to fix it . If so it could =
save us here some time.
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Thanks , Jeff

My experience with Carver (limited) is that it spends too much time and eff=
ort on eyewash and less time and effort on QC than it should. It cost very =
little (after first-cost and tooling) to make a fancy faceplate, and relati=
ve to assembly labor, even less to make a nice, thick bit of aluminum. I ha=
ve looked 'under the hood' at a couple-three of their products - all nice b=
ut for the actual hand-work. Not so nice. Barely, cold and dry-solder joint=
s, at least two of the above in all cases, one amp having all three.=20

After that, shop techs typically have seen a lot such that the back-and-for=
th described should never have happened.=20

Want a contrast? Back when AR was still in business, I had one of their rec=
eivers. It developed a crackle in one channel, I called AR (this was before=
I knew one end of a soldering iron from another) and they stated that thei=
r flat-rate was $65 (in 1976) + shipping, one way, for diagnosis only. Off =
it went with a check. Back it comes, no additional charge, now in an AR box=
complete with the plywood. Now, the *other* channel was entirely out. I ca=
lled AR. Two days later, comes a prepaid shipping label. Off it goes. A wee=
k later, it comes back, working perfectly. And two baggies of parts, one fr=
om the first repair (small caps and one driver transistor), then the second=
baggie with all four output transistors replaced, and the bias issue (carb=
on pots) dealt with. With a note of apology for them not 'catching' the pro=
blem the first time.=20

I still own an AR receiver, amp and tuner, as well as four sets of their sp=
eakers.=20

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA