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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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kota1
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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.

kota1
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ditusa
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+3 On Quicksilver Amps. The Silver 60 Mono Amps or Horn Mono Amps are great. 😎

Mike

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ozzy62
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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.

 

 

charles7
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I just read two recent reviews in Audio Science review..it was horrible with two amps.. he even found a loose screw in the box

And worse. They documented that the actual power output of the 275 was a small fraction of the published "spec."

As for the OP's choices, he might consider a Pass power amp and a tube preamp.

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