carver reciever and power amp


my son has a carver receiver and power amp. his amp is the 350 watt per chanell amp. I've read some reviews that carver's rating is not really true. any comments on this?
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I have two of Bob's products from the Carver years. The Receiver and the TFM15cb amp. Both have been put to the test driving my KLH Nines (a difficult load!). And they both passed just fine! In fact, the Receiver proved to be one of the best sounding amps ever driving the Nines! Sounded like it had unlimited power and subterranean (floor-shaking) bass! I was surprised (the Nines are low-sensitivity) and theoretically need about 200 watts into 16 ohms to attain life-like SPL's! The TFM15cb also did sound fine with the Nines! I now have it connected to my Ohm Walsh Sound Cylinders. Sounds excellent and I feel no need to change it for any of my other amps! So thumbs up for these two products from the old days of Carver!
Both were bought from a local GW, so past history unknown. $180 for the Receiver and $25 for the TFM15cb. And last year I bought another Receiver from an eBay seller at a fair price (can't remember!).
I should have mentioned that I have a 300W Carver amp from the 90's that served me well. I kept it for use as a backup amp.
  I also owned one of Bob's Sunfire amps. That was one of Carver's great designs.

+1 lowrider57! The Sunfire amp is another great product from Bob! A real challenger to all the big-bucks boutique amps! 
I love my Sunfire Cinema Grand Signature II. For an almost 20 year old amp there's not much on the current market and certainly nothing in the price range(that I paid) that I would trade it for...