I heard Emotive bought Bob Carvers tube company

My Chinese/Maryland USA Jolida tube amp cost around 1/8th the price of the closest Carver, performs beautifully, and is VERY well made...and since the Chinese manufacturing cat is "way out of the bag" at this point (who made the computers we're typing this stuff on?), we should support U.S. companies who keep track of the Chinese factory working standards (if at all possible). Mike Allen's (Jolida founder) story is an interesting example of exactly that.

Maybe Emotiva will cut out the Carver retailers and sell direct to the consumer. Now that would make a worthwhile takeover.

Bob Carver has not been associated with Carver for many moons. His tube amp company apparently wasn't particularly successful or he wouldn't have been looking to sell it.

At any rate, here's my concern. Emotiva bought out Sherbourn, a previously excellent amp manufacturer. They used to have transformers for each channel. Then Emotiva buys them and basically puts out Emotiva amps with the Sherbourn name, which waters down a previously good product. It didn't sell well, and now Sherbourn is going the way of Emotiva, selling over the internet only.

Then Emotiva buys into TacT room correction. After many promises, nothing with TacT has been released, and Emotiva goes silent on the whole thing.

Now they buy a tube amp company and make a big splashy announcement about it. Well excuse me if I don't get all excited, but I have yet to see any benefits of their takeovers. And they STILL haven't released the XMC-1 after reassuring that it was coming last summer. They have pockets full of good intentions, but have trouble delivering.

Answers to your concerns.....Yes, Emotiva has oficially purchased and now owns Bob Carver LLC.

Dealers will remain.

Bob Carver has always been involved with the company on the design front and will continue to do so. The tube company has been very sucessful.

The product line will not be "cheapened". They will continue to be designed by Bob Carver, made in the US and will not change in their design. Still all hard wired.
Their current employees/techs will remain and continue to build and service the products.

Emotiva does not want to degrade the line. The Bob Carver legend will continue and with the same level of design, craftsmanship and quality.

We have provided preamps and shown with Carver at every show they have done since the introduction of their tube line and talk to them on a regular basis which is how I know the details mentioned above. My comments above are the basic facts as I am not the one to provide inner details.

Wait...I thought providing "inner details" was what high end audio was all about?