Well ..This Is Interesting...What Do You Think.?? Food For Thought..Or BS?

I saw that too. Have a body that I haven’t seen in a long time, but he loved carver and had a 1.5 T and for lack of a better term sounded Tinkley to me so I hope that wasn’t patterned after the Connie J.

I have a Friend that has the Conrad Johnson we speak of here. It is a Fantastic sounding amp at least to my ears thru some Martin Logan Electrostatic Speakers. I enjoy going to his house when the wife is out with the kids. It's into the MAN CAVE and turn it up to 11...

This happened in 1985 -- over 40 years ago. I wonder if anyone has written about this since then.

I was wondering the other day; why hasn’t some young geek, audio nut, test amps and preamps and sell his information or offer a type of concierge service to point out the reality with facts of physics?

When I worked at a Carver dealer in the mid-80's, I came to have a pretty low opinion of the integrity of the product line, mostly due to (lack of) field reliability and upon inspection, build quality.  "Gutless wonders" we called them...I know they were supposed to have "tubelike" sound, but I can't reconcile that with the fact they were not transformer coupled and had typical solid state low output impedance.  Load interaction is a principal cause of what people perceive as tube amp sound and it derives from the higher output impedance.