Carver amps - can someone explain this?
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Bruce (Tour2ma) you wanted the link to my quote, here it is:
Actually, a very interesting read about how SS designs progressed and some brief discussion about the different topologies.
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/0701/volksamp.htm
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Anything I can use to budge the immovable object known as F1nut?
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Thing is Bruce, I've tried both types and actually own both types.Political Correctness'.........defined
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Thing is Bruce, I've tried both types and actually own both types.
Yes folks you heard it here F1 goes both ways.
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Hi, I know this is an old thread but I just stumbled on it and maybe someone will see this. The OP asked about why so many people used old Carver amps with SDA speakers. Instead of why, I am wondering how? One time, years ago, I blissfully and ignorantly hooked up a Carver M400 (no 'a', no 't') to my SDA CRS speakers. When I turned it on it let out a very loud screaming howl. This was a sound that should never come from an audio system. It damaged my speakers. I found out later that the Carver is not a common ground amp and is basically incompatible with SDA speakers. So unless you intentionally don't use the umbilical cord that connects the left and right channels (then what's the point of using SDA speakers at all) how do you use this Carver/SDA combination? I know I have certainly avoided it ever since that incident.
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Some Carver Amps ARE common ground. I have a pair of M1.0t's bi-amping my SDA 2.3TL's right now!The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits. -Albert Einstein
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nonobaddog wrote: »Hi, I know this is an old thread but I just stumbled on it and maybe someone will see this. The OP asked about why so many people used old Carver amps with SDA speakers. Instead of why, I am wondering how? One time, years ago, I blissfully and ignorantly hooked up a Carver M400 (no 'a', no 't') to my SDA CRS speakers. When I turned it on it let out a very loud screaming howl. This was a sound that should never come from an audio system. It damaged my speakers. I found out later that the Carver is not a common ground amp and is basically incompatible with SDA speakers. So unless you intentionally don't use the umbilical cord that connects the left and right channels (then what's the point of using SDA speakers at all) how do you use this Carver/SDA combination? I know I have certainly avoided it ever since that incident.
If your SDA's use the pin/blade cable, then you can use the AI-1 that allows any non-common ground amp to be used.Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
President of Club Polk
