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Welcome! Rita's Vintage Audio is a great repair shop that is owned by Bob Carver. You should be able to run an I-Pod through your stereo if you have a docking station or a 3.5mm to rca cable, just plug the 3.5mm plug into the headphone jack. Speakers, there's a lot of options out there, size, budget, your room, taste, total output, are you using a sub and a whole bunch of other factors come in to play. I like the Sunfire ribbons, Carver AL-3s and bunch of Klipsch models personally, I'm sure others will chime in. Good luck and have fun building your system!

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WELCOME
(jaz, queenman, and scarebo eat your hearts out)

Too many questions at one time.
Building a great system takes time. You are in the right place.
Hell maybe you already have incredible stuff. Many who stumble into here do.

I personally know nothing, but guys here do.

Get to know them by posting.
Maybe you have some good items to build on - post what you have.

and yea

WELCOME

+1 (now see guys that is how you do it and not be a post whore)

Rits'a repair is a good source for repair of Carver Equipment! Speaker wise Carver AL III's for the money is a great way to go - Sunfire CRM-2's or CRS-3's are real good to but if you have the space and can fine a pair Carver Platinums are the Best way to go!!!

Welcome and stick around there are tons of others that will be in soon with Excellent ideas and I am just a Ribbon speaker lover

Ribbons are great, but Klipsch horns are a force to be reckoned with!!!

Ribbons are great, but Klipsch horns are a force to be reckoned with!!!

it would take Viagra tho to make me Horny. I am not a Fan of Horns! I would never Bull fight either If you mess with Horns you always take it in the end,,,literally OUCH!!!

Rits'a repair is a good source for repair of Carver Equipment! Speaker wise Carver AL III's for the money is a great way to go - Sunfire CRM-2's or CRS-3's are real good to but if you have the space and can fine a pair Carver Platinums are the Best way to go!!!

Welcome and stick around there are tons of others that will be in soon with Excellent ideas and I am just a Ribbon speaker lover

Ribbons are great, but Klipsch horns are a force to be reckoned with!!!

See how much fun it is here?
Those guys should have to put up an avatar wearing a skirt.

Hang in there, post your system and the pros will step up.

See how much fun it is here?

I personally know nothing, but guys here do.

What kind of budget are you working with? It'll make things easier to point you in the right direction.

Oh sorry! Welcome to the forum!!!

Welcome Tim. +1 the Rita comment: if you plan on them as being the "heart" of your new system, them ship them off to Rita's and have them both tuned up and that hum fixed. Then go ePray shopping for some good used speakers (or Craig's list local 'cause good speakers are hard to ship!). Then get a good source and/or yes, just use iPod as temporary source until you can get what you really want/need! And if you REALLY want to "jazz" up your "new" system try and get Rich at the "other" Carver site to do a "mkII" upgrade to the m1.0t (in lui of a Rita tuneup). But alas, I think he may have closed the "que" on doing these upgrades (google 'mkII Carver upgrade' to find this site).

There you go, a few of us idiots post and then a real guy steps up to help

That is a real WELCOME --

I meant snoopy, but while I was posting that Ed put up ---

At any rate, pm these guys if you actually want better audio.

Just kidding of course about the others before them.

Will you ever post here again - most don't.

Welcome Tim. +1 the Rita comment: if you plan on them as being the "heart" of your new system, them ship them off to Rita's and have them both tuned up and that hum fixed. Then go ePray shopping for some good used speakers (or Craig's list local 'cause good speakers are hard to ship!). Then get a good source and/or yes, just use iPod as temporary source until you can get what you really want/need! And if you REALLY want to "jazz" up your "new" system try and get Rich at the "other" Carver site to do a "mkII" upgrade to the m1.0t (in lui of a Rita tuneup). But alas, I think he may have closed the "que" on doing these upgrades (google 'mkII Carver upgrade' to find this site).

Plus 1 on MK II up-grade and checking out Rollands! Agreed with elgrau post fully! The first thing I would do once you find speakers is find a good Tube CD Player like a Carver 390t or 490t or even a Jolida tube CD Player! This is the Biggest up-grade for the money

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