Carver CT-6 Preamplifier Tuner Bob Carver Design Made in JAPAN

Description: Carver CT-6 Preamplifier Tuner Bob Carver Design Made in JAPAN No remote. Missing power button. Still powers on by pressing recessed little button. See photo. All features and buttons work. Still sound great. Headphone jack is a little worn but still usable. Will include PDF owners manual. The current Carver line of audio components includes several compact, low-profile units that provide excellent performance in minimal space. One of these is the new CT-6 tuner/preamplifier, which is about as compact as such a product can possibly be without sacrificing functionality. Its chassis measures 17 inches wide, 13 inches deep, and only 1-7/8 inches high. It weighs only 8-3/4 pounds. The CT-6 has inputs for a moving-magnet phono cartridge, four high-level inputs, and two tape-recorder loops with monitoring and dubbing provisions. It also incorporates the proprietary Carver Sonic Hologram Generator, a circuit designed to cancel crosstalk, which extends the stereo sound stage beyond the area defined by the speakers. To obtain the full effect of Sonic Holography, the positions of the speakers and listener must be adjusted to a close tolerance, but the result can be very impressive. (The circuit can be switched off when desired.) The CT-6 contains a digital-synthesis am/fm tuner with twenty station presets. It has both manual tuning and preset scan or auto scan (which finds the next receivable station in the band), and there is a stereo/mono switch. In addition, the CT-6 incorporates Carver’s exclusive Asymmetrical Charge-Coupled FM Detector (ACCD). This switch-able circuit can strikingly improve the reception of a weak stereo signal plagued by multipath distortion by replacing the stereo difference component (L - R) with a low-noise substitute derived from the quieter mono sum (L + R) signal. The result is a signal having most of the essential content of the original stereo broadcast but with less noise and distortion. Because of its small size, rather than merely styling considerations, most of the CT-6’s controls are small, round, momentary-contact pushbuttons, clearly marked and well spaced. Many of them form a row across the bottom of the panel. In this row are the ten preset selectors and the tuner mode selectors. Each preset button can select two memorized channels. For instance, a momentary touch on button 4/14 calls up preset No. 4; holding it in for about 2 seconds selects preset No. 14. The display window shows the current tuner frequency, and preset channel number if applicable, in large numerals. Three red lights to its left indicate relative signal strength. Red LED’s show the status of the operating features. Other buttons to the right of the display select the program source and switch the Sonic Holography circuit on and off. The loudness-compensation button is one of three mechanically latching controls. The others, at the far left of the preset buttons, switch the tape-monitoring circuits on and off and select between the two tape sources. The CT-6 does have a few control knobs, though only the volume control is large enough to be perceived immediately as a knob (it also carries a green LED position indicator). Three small center-detented knobs adjust balance, bass, and treble, and another switches the tape-recording outputs to the selected source or interconnects the two tape decks for dubbing in either direction. A large, square momentary-contact power button and a headphone jack complete the front-panel controls. The rear of the CT-6 is populated by eighteen phono jacks for the various inputs and outputs. There are binding posts for the supplied wire-loop am antenna and a coaxial 75-ohm fm antenna jack. Two of the four AC outlets are switched.

Price: 379 USD

Location: New Albany, Ohio

End Time: 2024-08-12T03:02:46.000Z

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