Carver was a very flashy designer who correctly thought lots of power was the key to transients but his implementations were not full bodied and natural sounding. I would never bought one back then, let alone new.
Carver M 1.5t
Just saw a this unit on my local Craigs. Add says it was recapped 10 years ago. Is this unit worth asking price of $500. I was just going to run it with a Sonos source and some polk audio speakers in my garage/shop.