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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The redesigned Dynaco 35W amps would be worth looking into.  Vacuum Tube Audio or Will Vincent come to mind.  You will see.Dennis Had amps on ebay highly regarded.  These are all reasonable cost.  I would add a couple subs.  Then you will really see improvement.  Happy listening!

I agree with the suggestion of the Line Magnetic tube amps with efficient speakers. Or the Willsenton R300 or R8.

See the reviews on YouTube.   
 

Great products, great sound, and great values - especially with efficient speakers!

 

With all the available alternatives, why trust a brand that is questionable at best???

Take a look at Denis Had (of Cary fame) new inspire amps.  He makes them himself one at a time point to point wiring.  The new Inspire 300B PSE (parallel single ended) sounds outstanding at 12 W/Chan can drive most anything.

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.