I found a pair of mint Carver Amazings


A friend of mine had a pair and I think for there age they sound pretty good. My question is What amp will wake these speakers up and really make them sing
Thanks in advance
128x128abruce
I listened to a pair of these Friday afternoon. They were powered by the biggest Bryston stereo amp and a current model Levinson amp rated at 200/400 wpc. Neither of these amps could get these speakers to open up. I was thoroughly unimpressed. To be fair though, i did notice that one of the ribbon tweeters was moving in unison with low frequency input, so my guess is that something was very wrong with at least one of these speakers. Sean
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Try a big Plinius amp, the Carver's need lots of power with no amp strain as they get bright very quickly. Old Krells (not the KAV line) would work fine also. Aragon and McCormick comes to mind also>

Dave
...I also heard that thay have tendency to destroy output stages due to their deep and continuouse impedance dips so make shure you're getting a "welding machine" type of amp(s).