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“Sideshow” is the word that comes to mind.
Unlike many (older) folks I don’t have warm fuzzies about the Carver name. My first exposure was the Sunfire “True Subwoofer,” an amusical thing that got loud pretty low in a small cabinet but otherwise had no virtues. The Carver “ribbon” speaker Circuit City sold (long planar, maybe downfiring woofer) sounded very disjointed. He may have been right on fact with the Stereophile amp challenge thing but his approach belonged in a circus ring. So I’m not shocked by the all-show nature of this amp.
Unlike many (older) folks I don’t have warm fuzzies about the Carver name. My first exposure was the Sunfire “True Subwoofer,” an amusical thing that got loud pretty low in a small cabinet but otherwise had no virtues. The Carver “ribbon” speaker Circuit City sold (long planar, maybe downfiring woofer) sounded very disjointed. He may have been right on fact with the Stereophile amp challenge thing but his approach belonged in a circus ring. So I’m not shocked by the all-show nature of this amp.