Do you like Phase Linear amps?

stuwee

Some guys are making them built to last, no more turn on/off thump nasties, no more taking the speakers with them when they blow!! A great read...

http://forums.phxaudiotape.com/jerry-s-only-one-in-the-country-phase-linear-700-thread-t1154.html

You like Power ? This baby has Power !!

dorokusai

It's one Carver project that I actually do like. I've owned a couple PL complete rigs....very nice. Even had the first CDP introduced in North America, ala the Phase Linear 9500(Kyocera), and it sounded genuinely awful....was quirky to say the least and often didn't even play. But as far as nostalgia goes, its off the charts. This is a fact that can be argued as Sony had a model the very same year(?)....forget the nomenclature. Where's Mhardy when you need him....

mhardy6647

you rang? :-)

For the record. I have, courtesy of my favorite vintage audio emporium(*), a Carver CDP with "digital time lens" - sounds like Einstein may have been involved with that Carver innovation(?).

*- the swap pile at our town dump.

All of the early CDPs sounded not so nice... kept me away from 'em for over a decade (I was a very late adopter).

cnh

From what I gather some of the amps were 'better' than others. There is a 400 series PL that's been sitting at my local Pawn Shop for years. That model, in particular, was known as a 'real' flamer! And is probably in need of a lot of work! The owner of the shop has it labeled at 265.00--very 'wishful thinking.

Not worth anywhere near that in its 'original' condition. The thread you list is for the 700 which is the better model?

Had no idea there were CDPs in the line up. Thank you Sirs!

cnh

mhardy6647

The PL 700(B; the unsuffixed, original 700 wasn't terribly common) was Bob Carver's first "statement" piece, with a then-unheard of 350 watts per channel. In fairness, many were used for commercial sound reinforcement, which is probably at least partly why the tales of the 700B's and the 400's propensity towards self-immolation ("Flame Linear") were so rampant.


(The PL 700B/4000 combo is barely visible in my crummy scan of this old Warehouse Sound catalog)

victor. askew

Not if you were to drop it off on to my front porch with a for free sign on it. Have owned 3 of them in the past and i destroyed 3 pairs of damm good spkrs when they each failed. Output devices failure = DC into your spkrs. No thanks.