Lord Huggington

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I found a Carver 900 from the early 1980's in my basement. Does anyone know anything about it?

JohnVroom

interesting piece, a budget receiver from Carver only 100 wpc (2 channel). Carver FM tuners were supposed to be good

NOT a magnetic field affect amp (mag amp)
NO Sonic Holographic circuit (gave a really cool 3D affect)

Lord Huggington

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This thing says "magnet field amplifier", same thing?

When I used it in the early 2000's for a stereo, it was hooked up to 4 ported 12's, couple mids and tweets and it was too loud for comfort.

dbs

from what i remember
very efficient amp
very little heat
expensive to repair
i would take a 100 watt carver over almost anything 1000 watts
my uncle has the cube carver ... nice

Lord Huggington

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It ***** on my Sony 600 x 6 channel, and I'd like to get it repaired. Do you know how many channels it has? It has 8 wire hook ups at the back, and it doesn't say an ohm anywhere.

Edit: just realised - 100W x 2 channels? Seriously? Is that 50W each channel or 200W total?

JohnVroom

if it says it has it it does! Carver only put that amp topology in his better products (it made big power but was light and ran cool) I only heard them @ dealerships but they seemed to be pretty good. The magnet field amp came from the Carver cube which was crazy power with out all the heat sinks.

Later Nelson Pass had his 'cubes' but they were single ended solid state heavy class A designs (basically as close to a polar opposite to the carver cube while still solid state)

The Tube Doctor

I clearly remember those Carver cubes. They also built a big brother amp called the M-1.5T.
It was the cause of an alarming number of ESS AMT 1C driver failures. (popped the woofer coil clean outta the gap)
The Carver Sonic Holograph was also known as the Sonic Holocaust.
Sorry, Oldfart-itis is flaring up again. Off to mainline some Geritol.........................

Lord Huggington

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It can't be fixed, they havn't made parts in a long time. I picked up a "LLoyd's" 60W receiver, it has a tape deck and a record player. It's some old but it works. The speaker boxes have the frequency response graphs pictured on the front.