Carver amps are OVERRATED!I owned a Carver A-760x for years,then bought a Parasound HCA-3500 power amp.Eve though the Parasound is rated lower, it goes louder without compression, has a more extended top-end, sounds smoother, and the bass extension, bass power, bass detail, bass control, and bass slam is MUCH, MUCH BETTER than the Carver!The Parasound has a MUCH BIGGER power supply tha the Carver.I will never buy another Carver amp! I am using Paradigm Reference Studio/100 v.2 loudspeakers, and an Adcom GFP-750 preamp with the Parasound.Bass of the Parasound is dead-even with the Bryston 7B ST mono-blocks!
