Carver Amps?

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Forum Name: Car Audio
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Topic: Carver Amps?

Posted By: customsuburb
Subject: Carver Amps?
Date Posted: June 12, 2005 at 12:52 PM

This is kind of OT but oh well..

I've been looking at some used Pro audio amps on ebay lately and was just wondering if Carver amps are very good. Right now I'm looking at a Carver PM-175.

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Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: June 12, 2005 at 12:55 PM

Same class as Crown or Crest. Bid with confidence (assuming the amp is in good shape!)

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Posted By: customsuburb
Date Posted: June 12, 2005 at 1:33 PM

Sounds good. This is the one I'm looking at. https://cgi.ebay.com/dll?ViewItem&item=7328403862&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 posted_image

Posted By: dwarren
Date Posted: June 12, 2005 at 1:48 PM

Is he selling the amp based on its quality or who owned it?

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Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: June 12, 2005 at 3:22 PM

Looks like he is advertising who owned it, but for less than $100 that is one heck of a steal. Go for it as they regularly go for $225 to $300. If the bidding goes over $250 drop out as you can find these for $250 any day of the week. Those amps were designed by Bob Carver and use his magnetic field technology. A Carver PM-175 was conservatively rated at 175 watts X 2 into 8 ohms, is stable at 4-ohms per channel (500 watts bridged into 8-ohms) at <0.1% THD. They are very nice amps.

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Posted By: Francious70
Date Posted: June 13, 2005 at 2:05 PM

Carver is some good stuff. Owned by Phoenix Gold, you can rest assured it's a quality product. I think this was built before PG bought them tho.

Paul

Posted By: Sobe_Death
Date Posted: June 14, 2005 at 2:21 PM

i absolutely love Carver components for the home stereo. my father owns a carver preamp and a two channel 200watt amplifier that are easily 16 years old and they sound better than almost anything i have ever listened to as far as the quality, clarity, and lack of any audible distortion. it even has a soft-clipping circuit that saves your speakers from damage if the amplifier goes into clipping output. pretty nice stuff if you ask me.

*edit* here is an example of what he has, if you care:
https://cgi.ebay.com/dll?ViewItem&category=71565&item=5781268014&rd=1

Posted By: customsuburb
Date Posted: June 16, 2005 at 3:01 PM

The PM-175 was a little too much power for me.. so I went with a PM-100 instead. posted_image It supposedly does 300 watts continuous at 8 ohms bridged.

https://cgi.ebay.com/dll?ViewItem&item=7329252740&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1

Posted By: Sobe_Death
Date Posted: June 20, 2005 at 11:06 AM

congratulations. i highly doubt you will be disappointed with it