Bob Carver's New Company Releases New Tube Amps

[jprkeller]

I thought you all might be interested. I was looking for info on Bob and these posts came up in early September. I was wondering when Mr. Carver would come around again.

http://hometheaterreview.com/bob-carvers-new-company-releases-new-tube-amps/

and

http://www.cepro.com/article/bob_carver_elan_founder_bob_farinelli_launch_new_audio_co/

"BobCarver.com, a new company formed by renowned audio inventor Bob Carver and home automation pioneer Bob Farinelli, just announced a new line of vacuum tube amplifiers..."

 

[tsv_1]

"A special current feedback circuit allows the amplifier to allegedly "listen to the room" via feedback from the speakers acting as microphones (using the law of reciprocity). "

wait... so reflected sound that comes back and hits the speaker diaghram, thus creating a signal (like a microphone would)?... and this signal is then utilized for feedback purposes? Is that what this means? Or is it more of a back-emf compensation thing? Wha...?

 

[timm]

find it odd that this would be noted in a home theater review .... I have had plenty of carver stuff... including my current sunfire cinema grand signature that I use to bi-amp my odysseys...I have no doubt that these amps will sound good - but, at the same time, I think we have heard all of the marketing stuff before... I guess some people need to hear that.... all I need to hear is that Bob Carver is fiddling with something or other... and I am interested.... but- 7-12K for me is a bit pricey for some amps.... my passion is waning a bit unfortunately...

 

[tsv_1]

find it odd that this would be noted in a home theater review .... I have had plenty of carver stuff... including my current sunfire cinema grand signature that I use to bi-amp my odysseys...I have no doubt that these amps will sound good - but, at the same time, I think we have heard all of the marketing stuff before... I guess some people need to hear that.... all I need to hear is that Bob Carver is fiddling with something or other... and I am interested.... but- 7-12K for me is a bit pricey for some amps.... my passion is waning a bit unfortunately...

and unless I missed something, the blurb seems to indicate those nosebleed-inducing price points are per monoblock (!)

 

[jprkeller]

I just acquired my very first ML's, a pair of Vantages a few weeks ago...just with my AVR alone they sound incredible...on reading many many threads here on the forum, Sunfire and Carver seemed like a nice place for me to start with an amp and that's when I found the link for Mr Carver and his new venture...hopefully the price is for a pair (?) but either way 7-12k is about 10 times more than where I want start my journey...