Anyone who knows anything about high-end audio has heard of Bob Carver. His innovative designs (particularly dealing with amplifiers and subwoofers) are legendary, and even his early 1970s components are still in demand by audiophiles around the globe.
Bob founded Phase Linear in 1970, then founded Carver Corporation in 1978. He later transitioned out of Carver Corporation to start Sunfire Corporation, which manufactures high-end home theater components. He successfully regained control of Carver Corporation in 1998, and currently runs both companies from a facility in Snohomish, Washington
* Carver preamplifiers had “Sonic Holography”, or interaural crosstalk cancellation.
* Carver amplifiers had Magnetic Field power supplies.
* Carver tuners and receivers had the Asymmetrical Charge-Coupled FM detector.
* Carver “t-mods” were affordable solid-state amplifiers modified to match the sonic character of ultra-expensive high-end amplifiers like Mark Levinson, Conrad Johnson and Carver’s own Silver Seven.
We use the term “70’s Audio” to represent the “mindset” and the well-deserved nostalgia regarding the overall build-quality of mainline consumer audio products that many people think reached a zenith in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Prior to about 1981 or so, most audio gear was not stereo-on-a-chip, light-weight, black-plastic (black plague) boxes.
Hello Joel,
I was searching the net for something and stumbled across the picture of my Triple Stack of Pioneer silver face rack gear referenced here on your site.
This is the first time I’ve been on your site. I thought I would leave a comment and say using the pic is ok and that I still have all that great Pioneer silver-face gear, but it is no longer arranged like that. It’s been divided up amongst regular Pioneer Studio Racks, non-racked placement and some in storage.
While I’m here, I guess I’ll drop a self-promotion comment to say that we have one of the largest Pioneer libraries on the planet… 10-12,000 Pioneer Service Manuals, and User /Owners Manuals, and even a good number of color sales brochures.
If any of your readers need something, visit our site and contact us. As I write this (5-2008), the Pioneer manuals lists on site are not complete (but hope they will be soon). They are completely described and priced here internally but need transferred to the web site.
Oh… I also recently started blogging myself. The first one is netaudioads-ppp.blogspot.com and I hope to have another up and running soon at rickwords.com
All the best….