Bob Carver tube amps

I have followed Bob Carver over his career. Sometimes there are guys that think outside of the box and try different approaches to things. That is Bob. But I would never buy a Carver product… short attention span and poor at execution. Flamboyant and innovative. I want rock solid engineering and execution. I would look at Conrad Johnson, VAC, Audio Research for high quality tube gear.

Bob is very solid guy. In my re-sell arsenal as well as in my personal system I use his products and pretty much I’d say I’m impressed by performance. I started diving on to his stuff when I decided to swap my Bryston 4bst amp for Sunfire SRA amp with absolutely same power, but SRA performance was way superior to Bryston that was nearly 3x more expensive.

Today downside of Carver equipment is service availability. After his retirement not many feel qualified to service these sophisticated pieces and they are not simple to examine and repair in case anything goes down south. I swap my carver amps in order to keep them running from time to time and see no issue with 40+ years old Carver equipment. It's indeed entirely underrated by Audiophile community

I just read two recent reviews in Audio Science review..it was horrible with two amps.. he even found a loose screw in the box

How about a Quicksilver?

Russ is right, Quicksilver.