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In Reply to: RE: Experts???? posted by PakProtector on March 17, 2015 at 08:40:11
Please don't cite Carver as being the "superior" transistor gear. We carried the unreliable junk when I worked in audio. A customer convinced me to sell him a receiver against my recommendations, which was the only Carver receiver that I ever sold. Of course it promptly broke.
Note also that Carvers top of the line amplifier at the time was a tube amp. It was called the Silver Seven.
Last I heard, Bob Carver is still selling tube gear on eBay.
Thanks for making such a good argument for tube gear!
Dave
Follow Ups:
That is what it was CD...:)
None of its moving parts failed...it was instead one of those solid bits...heh-heh-heh. Anybody who has worked on stuff can find another example I am sure.
My Dynaco amps I got from my now passed Uncle are 1957 Mk.iii...and now they're my son's, fed from a blue tooth source. I expect he'll be able to do the same...:)
cheers,
Douglas
Friend, I would not hurt thee for the world...but thou art standing where I am about to shoot.
Let see: A Dynaco amp that is as old as I am and still working, versus a receiver that can't go a month without breaking. Which is more reliable? Don't get me started on "Flame Linear"!
Dave
IDK, that PM900 has lasted longer since I fixed it than the time between when it was made and when I acquired it...:)
But nevermind, it is not like I agree with that poster who disagreed with Eli. And to argue the other side, it isn't like there are no tube eaters out there...either fairly recent or original era. Buuuuuut, take a tube design that is not exceeding ratings, and feed it tubes and new electrolytics from time to time, and Eli's time frame is entirely legit.
cheers,
Douglas
Friend, I would not hurt thee for the world...but thou art standing where I am about to shoot.
I have a Pioneer tube integrated amp that I have yet to rebuild. They supposedly ran their tubes pretty hard.
Dave
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