The latest from Jim Clark:
"You have a satisfaction guarantee for 30 days with a Bob Carver purchase from Jim Clark Stereo in which you can return the 275 for a full refund.. I encourage customers to compare these amplifiers in direct head to head comparisons to any other amplifiers of a similar power rating. I’m not concerned with sine waves and powering load resistors to be perfectly honest. Who listens to sine waves and load resistors? Thats pretty boring and tells you nothing about the amplifiers sound, driving music into speaker loads.
A site with ‘Audio’ in the title seems to ignore this point. Maybe the word Audio, implying sound, should be changed to ‘load resistor’?
I carry products because they are musical and sound great within their price range. I compare several models within a price point and listen to them with different combinations of front ends and speakers.
The units I can offer a satisfaction guarantee with, due to their musical performance are the ones I carry.
The unit has to play well with a variety of other gear and make the customer happiest to win, and not get returned.
The buck stops with the amplifiers performance playing music signals into speakers loads, and the 275 does this better than any I had listened to. Some were over 2x its price.
Customers should continue enjoying the very musical nature of this product, made especially for playing music into loudspeaker loads, and not be concerned with sine wave inputs and driving load resistors.
Use the 275 to play music into loudspeakers and it will make you smile every day without fail… Now if you want to stick your head between load resistors and play sine waves, buy something else."
Jim Clark at Carver Stereo Forum