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- From: bower@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Ty Bower)
- Subject: Re: Carver and the FAQ
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:55:05 GMT
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- Many of Bob Carver's techniques are "questionable" and his involvement
- with Phase Linear quite some time ago produced some equipment
- which would not help a person build a good reputation.
-
- Many netters have heard his equipment and simply did not like it.
- This seems to be a general consenus.
-
- He often tends to use techno-babble and often seems to be making
- things up to make his equipment sound impressive. More often
- than not, he will "spare" the listener the details of how and
- why he has achieved whatever engineering marvel he has achieved
- and give it a "cool name." (Magnetic field power amps come to
- mind... what the hell is a magnetic field power amp, anyway?)
-
- Then again, he has much to be praised for. Most of his stuff
- is, in my opinion, reasonably priced for what it does (/claims
- to do.) A 375 watt per channel amp for ~$1000 is not a bad deal,
- especially when it is as small and light as it is (I'm talking
- about the TFM-45, aren't I? I always get the model numbers
- confused...)
-
- A friend of mine does some DJ work, and a few summers ago he
- started using new Carver amps. He has been surprised at how
- clean and powerful they were (much better than the old amps
- he was using.) There are many other satisfied Carver owners
- out there.
-
- So, although I myself can't condemn Carver equipment, I would
- never recommend it to anyone, much less purchase it myself.
- It's kinda like Bose - either you love it or hate it.
- Bob Carver and Amar Bose are almost the "religion & politics"
- of the audio world. You just don't bring the subjects up
- at the dinner table....
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-