Bob Carver LLC has been purchased by Emotiva

Yes you can bob confirmed the KT150 tubes perfectly fine on both amplifiers.

Its unethical how they treated there dealers. Now few are stuck with a unit they paid for more then current retail cost. If you ask me Bob and his friends are a bunch of thief's. No respect to dealers or those who paid high prices for this amp only to find out now its worth brand new at 50% of the price paid.

Feel like we just been played. I don't know what else to say. They never notified us nor did they make it clear on the direction they going. It was all done behind the curtains.

Knghifi amps paid at full price. 2 months down the line. Its being sold nearly at 50% of the price. How would you feel if your Dude was purchased for 6000.000 but then sold direct for 3000.00 Im sure you will be pissed off when it comes to the time of selling it. How much can you ask for 3000.00 for a used pre???? or 1500.00 for a used pre?? it hurts everyone. I don't have time for bob. So this is my last post.

Good Luck to Bob. Wish him all the best.

Iv had some bad tubes from bob carver, Kept making a popping noise and some blue lights would appear during this frantic moments. I reported it to Dan and the staff no response yet. If I don't get a response within 5 days I assume they are not really supporting the 1 year tube warranty and the 5 years unit warranty.

Yes but the new buyers are no longer supporting the warranty on these units and the 1 year tube replacements. I never had a bad tube before so this is the first.

Anyhow I think bob carver staff have made it clear they wont replace the tubes as my emails are being ignored both from Dan and his tech staff for the past 1 week.

Bob Carvers 305 have gone down to 4000 a pair, from 12000++ this is a Joke!!!!

You guys do know, that bobs amps were being sold for 12000++ now its selling for 3990.00 US dollars ahahahahahahaah I paid shit loads for mine. Now I cant even sell it

My Mistake sorry guys I thought it was per pair. Glad to hear its per amp. My amps are still up for sale.

Tubes less then 6 months old. Its making a popping noise and I can see blue electrical charges inside the power tubes when this happens. The VU Meter is also going crazy when this issue crops up now and then. I will be charging the tubes my self now. As im sick and tired of trying to get warranty support from Bob Carver.

They are not really supporting the so called warranty on the tubes and I guess the amplifier it self. The amp is hand built in t he US for what I have been told. But to be honest if the company wont support the warranty simply omit the information off the website and don't offer it. It just feels like false promise to me. I have decided to keep the amps, now since warranty wont be supported I will just upgrade the volume pots and capacitors inside the amp to take them up a few level. I have just ordered another Pre-amp from Bill Baker from Purity audio.

Getting the Atma MA2

Running my Bobs with the Bill Bakers Leanna line of preamp. I like the sound of his pre-amps compared to many others iv tried including VAC.

At the moment am using the purity with Clayton M300. Once the Atma is delivered, I will use the Clayton with the Danley SH50 for HT Duties and acquire the M200 for Centre Channel.

The Bobs are moving into a smaller room now, and will start modifying the amps with better caps and volume pot. Just disappointed on how Bob and the new buyers are acting these days with pricing and support. Total disappointment.

Just ordered a Pair of Legacy audio Whisper XD too, that should arrive in 2 weeks.

I have just emailed them, Lets see what happens.

That email is not responding anymore. I guess Bob Carver is finished. Will have to spend 900 dollars might as well get some KT150 Tubes instead.

Not sure about his SS Gear, but the tubes when modified are sounding very nice. The Internals of the amp looks old school. I don't regret the purchase. just pissed off about the warranty issue and the price change. The amps are very nice and musical. At first it did have a slight darker tone to them. Done a few caps change and it really shines now.

Thuan98

Could you update me which upgrades you have done and which resistors you have swapped out. I don't care much now about the warranty. I don't like emailing emotive, I have tried and they have ignore all my emails so when someone says the dealer claims this and that. Its all thin air to me.