carver amps preamps!

[cjpremierfour]

If you go to Youtube and search Carveraudio.com 08 part 8, Bob Carver will talk about what happened to his Carver Corp. in a Q&A session while attending Carverfest. The Board of Director's Carver Corp went out of business back in 1999. Bob now runs Sunfire which was up and running while the B.O.D.'s Carver was being ran into the ground.

[Worf101]

My one and only foray in to vintage amps and pre-amps was a Carver 400 Pre-amp combined with one of their early amps. All vintage, all pristine with original manuals and all that stuff. Hooked it up in my computer room system... no go. One channel would constantly drop out during play back. Deoxit it and cleaned it up, problem persisted. Took it to my drummer who's an electric engineer and an IT tech by trade, he hooked the system up and blammo... capacitors and sech started blowing left and right. Right now I've a $400.00 paperweight sitting in my basement.

Carver was an innovative and ground breaking American made brand. They're also finicky, quirky and expensive to get fixed and keep running. Save your money.

Worf