phase linear 500 watt per chanell amp

Design finished after Carver left. Over 40 y.o.
Rots o' ruck.
No more power than a big Hypex.

Oops! That was a little "racially insensitive" now, wasn’t it Fuzztone? Anyway, you have that big McIntosh MC602, don’t you g_nakamoto?

I’ve never heard this amp, but have sat in on a few discussions of it. I am under the impression that Bob did all the design work.  The amplifier does seem to be unstable as it sits, but several mods have been done to change the wiring and grounding scheme. I believe that there are many AC and DC cables bundled together as well as grounding all over the amplifier rather than using a common grounding point which causes this amplifier to be quite noisy. Also a lot of talk about poor capacitors used, so any amp not updated would need some work.
Good luck, Tim

I lived with one of those. It was amazing... ground breaking for 1978 (?)... but unrefined and noisy by today’s standards. it’s been a long time, but I doubt it sounds better now. .

For most of my time as an audiophile Carver was out there doing wild and crazy stuff... like his tiny cube. But for much of this time it was unique but there was some flaw that didn’t put it in the high end... noise or high frequency hash.

Great amp in its day however its ancient history now.