Bob Carver tube amps

I had a Sunfire Signature 600 II, and remember it distinctly as the worst sounding 2ch amp I’ve ever owned in 20 years. It got used for like a week before I couldn’t stand it anymore and put back in the PS Audio HCA-2 (also very efficient, certainly no heat converter), to great relief. Then acquired a Parasound A21 - even better. Nowadays I own mega-buck amps, to great satisfaction. But if people are happy with these Carver/Sunfire amps and feel they are superior to $30K (or more) amps, I say good! More power to them! It didn’t work for me.

Ha, ha, "Tracking Downconvertor™". Carver has always been clever at designing an unusual circuit, and then giving it a comic book sounding name, such as Magnetic Field Coil or "autocorrelator". (Who wouldn't want that?)

My favorite is "asymmetrical charge-coupled detector."

What's yours?

@cleeds 

Too many to count:

https://www.bobcarvercorp.com/patents

The Sunfire 7401 7 channels x 400 watts each= 2800 watts

Price=$4450/2800 watts= $1.58 per watt

Then you have to factor in the cost savings on your energy bill because it doesn’t need to pull and store constant power, it pulls as needed.

Take your favorite amp and run the numbers, is there any other 400 watt a channel amp available at $1.58 a watt? What about a 300 watt/channel? 200w? 100W???

Parasound A21 300w a channel x2=600 watts

Price= $3000/600w= $5 a watt, if it sounds better it should at more than 300% the cost!!

I would like to add that I own a pair of the Carver M 350 Black Raven/Beauty Amps. These amps replaced Ralphs Atma-Sphere M-60’s Mk3-3, which replaced a Pass Labs 350.8, 350.5 and before that a Krell KSA 250. I actually had Bob stay at my house for a couple days when I was also trying his Line Source Speakers. (I didn’t like them).

To my ears and present equipment, these amps are very good in terms of sound quality and power available. Of course, as noted, I haven’t tried too many amps.

And BTW, I still own and operate one of the Carver M400 cube amps in my game room.

ozzy