Carver Silver Seven Mono Vacuum Tube Power Amplifier Reviewed
Carver Silver Seven Mono Vacuum Tube Power Amplifier Reviewed
Bob Carver knows a thing or two about amp design, and the huge Silver Seven is actually two separate chassis, and 38 tubes, for each channel. It s also a good $30,000+. This is a far departure from a power amp in a coffee can and remains a historically important power amp even today.
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History lessons may bore most of you, but some background is needed to understand the brain-rattling Silver Seven. A lesson in psychology wouldn’t hurt either, because what we’re looking at here is a response to hurt pride, or ego, or whatever it takes to drive a mass-market manufacturer to produce a four-chassis power amplifier clocking in at seventeen big ones.