Bob Carver tube amps

Over on Audioasylum there is thread about the Carver Crimson 275. The amp is rated as 75 watts/channel. When someone pulled the covers off the output transformers, they found an Edcor transformer rated at 15 watts.  When tested by Audiosciencereview, the amp only produced 17 watts a channel with 1% distortion, and the fuse blew at 29 watts.

If nothing else, the company's published specs are very misleading under normal set of standards.

Almost forgot, I also have a Sunfire TSEQ10 subwoofer, two 10 inch drivers (1 active and 1 passive) with a 2700 watt amp. I don't think there is another sub out there that has this much power and at the same time only about 12 inches square in size. You can see the sub in the lower left corner of the front view pic of my system profile.

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Mike

I too have read all the negative press about the recent Carver offerings. If that’s all I had to go on, I’d probably shy away also.

But my experience with the Crimson 275 says something different. A few years ago I bought a pair of Spatial Audio X3s. The amp I had at the time was a Decware Torii II. As much as I loved that amp, and I did love it, it would not drive the X3s sufficiently. Enter the 275. It did a wonderful job driving those speakers effortlessly. I had zero complaints with the performance of that amp.

Speakers and amp are long gone, but I wanted to share  what I heard. I would constantly shake my head at how that tiny little light fly weight amp could sound as good as it did.