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| Carver Amazing Line Source Speakers Ozzy, the ALS does not sound good out of the box. You may even think there’s something wrong with the speakers. The sound will be too diffuse and the instruments won’t sound correct. It’ll almost sound like a defective Bose 901 at first. I notice ... | |
| Carver Amazing Line Source Speakers Ozzy, I personally would not use the DEQX preamp built in crossover. I'm a minimalist at heart and don't like what the DEQX does. I would connect your JLA sub amp to the the Raven amp via the high level connection using speaker wire (assuming the... | |
| Carver Amazing Line Source Speakers Ozzy, the ALS is nominally 8 ohm so the 8 ohm tap is the right choice. Bob confirmed this with me. If you go with 4 ohm, it would probably will not sound as open or transparent. But it won't hurt the amp or speakers if you try. In most cases t... | |
| Carver Amazing Line Source Speakers Ozzy, your room dimensions are similar to mine, but I have 10 foot ceiling. However, Bob designed the ALS to work with 8 foot ceiling so that it may be of benefit to you. Good to see you have the four corners of the room treated. I've found pla... | |
| Carver Amazing Line Source Speakers Ozzy I've been living with the ALS for 9 months now. It's better than my $40k Raidho speakers. However, speaker placement and room acoustics in addition to amplification plays a critical role in how they sound. Most past shows demonstrating the... | |
| Bob Carver new tune expected It always perplexes me to hear from disgruntled customers complaining about reliability of amps that were made in the 70's or 80's.As far I'm concerned Carver now makes some of the best tube gears out there. And I'm not a huge tube fan. In most c... | |
| Notable very small loudspeaker companies (other than Tekton!) Some may be surprised but Bob Carver and his ALS speakers should be added to the list. He's a 3 man operation now. The ALS is perhaps the most sophisticated design that has come about in the past 30+ years of speaker design. Set up correctly, it ... | |
| Carver Raven 350 Amps Ozzy, which tap you use depends on the impedance of your speakers. Unless you have really low impedance speakers like 1-2 ohm Apogees, the 8 ohm tap usually sounds better than 4 ohm tap. Bob's tube amps do have a 1 ohm tap. But there is no hard ... | |
| Still looking for speakers in the 10-20,000 range I've heard most of the speakers listed here including Magico, Kef, Martin Logan, Legacy, Wilsons, Sonas Faber, etc. The stand out for me is Bob Carver's new ALS speakers. Difficult to dial in but once you do your due diligence, the sound is incre... | |
| Carver Raven 350 Amps Great! First thing you'll need to do after turning on your amp is check the adjustable bias. Start with withwhat Bob recommends. From there, Increasing bias will make thing sound warmer and more upfront, while decreasing bias will sound leaner wi... | |
| Carver Raven 350 Amps Then I suggest you check out the 2-way stand mounts from Proac and Totem. | |
| Carver Raven 350 Amps Also Proac speakers are very dynamic speakers. If you can find a dealer, I'd lug your amplifier over and test the speakers with your amp. Or the dealer may actually let to audition them at home. | |
| Carver Raven 350 Amps You might want to audition these:https://totemacoustic.com/en/element-firehttps://totemacoustic.com/en/element-earthThe midrange/woofer driver don't need crossover, so it can be very dynamic. They may be in your price range. I have a friend who ... | |
| Carver Raven 350 Amps How about Bob's new ALS speakers? It's only 5" wide and 5" depth, but about 7 feet tall, so very small foot print. You already have subs, so you won't need to pay for the subs that come with the ALS. It will play close to 110 +dB with the 350's ... | |
| Dan D'Agostino Helius dual monoblocks, 1500w @ 8ohms Interesting...an arc welding machine that doubles as an audio amplifier. |