Carver Z1 Coupler

Russell Logan

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Mar 6, 2001, 8:41:13 PM3/6/01

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I am desperately searching for anyone who has one of these to sell. If
anyone has one please reply.

TC

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Mar 6, 2001, 10:40:15 PM3/6/01

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I remember that Z1. Back in early 90's / late 80's. I belive ther is a lot
of distortion involved. Cascade any two amps, second amp amplifies dist of
first.
Try before you buy.

Possibly Bob Carver found away to get around this.

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> >I am desperately searching for anyone who has one of these to sell. If
> >anyone has one please reply.
>

> Isn't that the device that allows you to hook one Carver up to increase
the
> watts on the primary Carver? If so, I've been trying to find one also.
My
> question is I have a 6200 receiver (100 wpc) sitting around doing nothing
> (I use a Mac MR-73 for a tuner). I've thought of hooking the 6200 up to
my
> integrated amp a CM-1090 (100 wpc). The 1090 is greatly superior
soundwise
> and I'm wondering if it would result in any degradation of sound. Any
> thoughts?
>

TC

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Mar 6, 2001, 10:40:15 PM3/6/01

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I remember that Z1. Back in early 90's / late 80's. I belive ther is a lot
of distortion involved. Cascade any two amps, second amp amplifies dist of
first.
Try before you buy.

Possibly Bob Carver found away to get around this.

T
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tcassette

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Mar 7, 2001, 8:51:30 PM3/7/01

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From the product instruction sheet:

"The CARVER Z-1 Wide Band Z Coupler is an impedance matching device which
enables a receiver or integrated amplifier to be used with the Carver M-400
Magnetic Field Amplifier. Many low power receivers and integrated
amplifiers have excellent phono stages and line amplifiers. However their
power amplifier sections, in addition to being underpowered, are frequently
incapable of even mediocre performance with many loudspeaker loads. The Z-1
presents an optimum non-inductive load to the power amplifier in the low
power receiver or integrated amplifier. When coupled with the Z-1 the
outputs of the receiver or integrated amp are used to drive an M-400. The
result is awesome sonic performance from a relatively inexpensive system."

Basically, it converts speaker level outputs to pre-amp level outputs so you
can add any high-power amp to a low-power amp/receiver. It sold for $50 and
seems to work well at its intended purpose.

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TC

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I remember that Z1. Back in early 90's / late 80's. I belive ther is a lot
of distortion involved. Cascade any two amps, second amp amplifies dist of
first.
Try before you buy.

Possibly Bob Carver found away to get around this.

T
"Peter Vy'lliki" <Vyl...@email.com> wrote in message
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> "Russell Logan" <russel...@home.com> wrote in

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>
> >I am desperately searching for anyone who has one of these to sell. If
> >anyone has one please reply.
>