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Bob Carver tube amps

Hello, looking for Carver amp info the read out there is a little sketchy. Is that place still in business? And who is actually making the amps? Do the have a factory in the Pacific Northwest….I live in the Pacific Northwest so I could drive there if I had a problem.

I need a tube amp for my Klipsch speakers, you tube heads out there is this the brand I should buy or is there a better option?

I can still remember in the 70s when my father in law went to the factory and grabbed me a Phase Linear amp and preamp off the factory floor..I had more problems with that thing, once and a while it made a super load pop when you turned it on..

 

 

 

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there are a couple very well populated recent threads re the carver crimson 275... search and you will find, lots lots of info posted

no need to rehash here

 

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bob carver has been around forever, he has had ’many lives’ in the industry over the years, so to speak -- always iconoclastic, brash, against the grain in many of his hifi audio endeavors... i too have been a fan of his gear at certain times (still have his lightstar reference linestage -- it is simply brilliant), but at others, i have to shake my head

this recent wave of amplifiers are interesting and controversial, to say the least, the claims made in marketing and selling these lightweight units do stretch the belief systems of many an experienced hobbyist to be sure

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yes indeed, it is good to be reminded that a promise is only as good as who it is that is making it

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