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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..

 

 

 

silverfoxvtx1800

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Hello,

I am driving Klipschorns with Bob Carver 350 Monoblocks.  The Khorns have Volti upgrades, so they are a bit more sensitive than stock...somewhere between 106-109 db.  The Carvers are dead quiet and sound great, to my ears, and the sound is pleasurable through all volume levels.   

The Audio Science Review has the Carver amp rated near the bottom of the SINAD performance chart, but they are the only tube amps on the chart as far as I can tell, so that's not really surprising:

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?search/40845019/&q=carver&o=relevance

I would like ASR to do some reviews of similarly priced/powered tube amps and see how they fall out C/W Carver.

Based on the ASR chart, the Benchmark AHB2 is the cleanest, most accurate amp they've tested so far, so I have been planning to purchase one to C/W the Raven monoblocks on my system to see if there is an audible difference between the best and the worst measuring amps on the ASR list.  Should be quite interesting.

 

 

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