Full tube bob carver new pre amp
rebelsoul
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Why would you want 12 tubes in a preamp?Amplifiers: Norma IPA 140, MasterSound Compact 845, Ayre v6xe, Consonance Cyber 800
Preamp: deHavilland Ultraverve 3
Dac: Sonnet Morpheus 2, Musical Paradise mp-d2 mkIII
Transport: Jay's Audio CDT2 mk2, Lumin U1 mini
Speakers: Rosso Fiorentino Volterra II
Speaker Cables: Crystal Clear Magnum Opus 2, Organic Audio Organic Reference 2
Interconnects: Crystal Clear Magnum Opus 2, Argento Organic Reference 2, Argento Organic 2
Power Cables: Argento Organic Reference, Synergistic Research Foundation 10 and 12 ga.
Digital cables: Crystal Clear Magnum Opus 2 bnc, Tellurium Q aes, Silnote Audio Poseidon Signature 2 bnc
Puritan PSM156 -
Bob's philosophy was that the more tubes in a preamp, the lower the noise and better the signal. He had many more words to define this but that was 15 years ago when he told this to me.
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
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I don’t care for the looks… the headphone jack is hideous, and where are the VU meters Bob loves so much?The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson -
Nice looking piece of kit and maybe best of all, no more loud mouth Franky boy.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."
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Reminds me a wee bit of the statement preamp that Mark Deneen designed for Peter Pritchard (ADC) late in the arc of the "real" ADC.
I stumbled across one on eBAY long, long ago for the princely sum of $13 (shipping wasn't even too bad back then, although it was pretty heavy). It had one channel that had very low output and resisted all of my attempts to troubleshoot it. Long story short, I ended up donating it to Deneen, who -- didn't actually have one, but rather wanted one for nostalgia or just for his collection.
13 Fourteen 6DJ8s. Not as bizarre as it sounds -- all of the "active" tubes in the circuit had vacuum tube constant current source loads on the cathodes. That's 26 triodes in one stereo preamp.
Had a pair of Jensen SUTs for MC phono, too.
Definitely the most interesting thing I ever found on eBAY.
