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Best Carver stereo solid state amplifier design

i would like to know what is the best design Bob Carver has made.Is it really considered hifi.What could we compare the sonics of his best designs to.Can we compare his stuff to mark levinson,spectral,krell.Many people are fans of him but we dont hear much about his work in hifi magazines. Does it mean its only good for home theater or what.Anyone out there can answer on the sound quality of his stuff.Any comparisons made to the big league.Thanks pat
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marakanetz
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I own single Sunfire SRA 250/500 8/4Ohms driving Totem Forrest speakers.
It has a large number of advanteges over the higher priced high-end components:
1. No Heat
2. Plenty of clean and linear power
3. Power rated over the whole audiable freequency bandwidth
4. Fraction of price to Krell Bryston or Classe with competitive performance
5. Can't rise my hand to sell this amp and upgrade to wYred4sound SX500 monos that 'itching' me lately.
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pataldorr OP
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Marakanetz so the wyred for sound might be an upgrade to the sunfire.Is your sunfire amp from the latest technologie of Bob Carver.Did you compare both.Anyone out there compare the spectron amps to sunfire amps.In the absolute sound mag,they said that the spectron was the best digital amp.Is that right.pat
blindjim
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All i seem to remember about Carver was his Phase linear amps. PF used a ton of them in Jax FL for their Dark Side Of the Moon show.

I was impressed. Still am.
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Blindjim
I was impressed. Still am
is this the amps you are using.pat
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marakanetz
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My SRA is from late 90's early 2000. It has logic circuit that switches between the classes of amp operation so making it partially digital.
I believe that Wyred4sound is valuable and inexpensive upgrade to my current model.
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