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Hi everyone i'm Emanuele! I finally got a TFM25, ultra rare in Italy, but i've got a problem.... In the next days i'll open a thread! Thank you! 😀

Hi folks Been a fan of Carver amps for ages... looking at getting back into Audio (and HT), and will be looking around for some used gems! Russ

Mark Knopfler, One Deep River was released on April 12, 2024. "One Deep River finds Knopfler at the ripe old age of seventy-four, and having not released a new record in six years – the longest gap between albums in quite a while. For the most part, though, this latest effort doesn’t feel like much of a divergence from the singer-songwriter’s norm. It continues his recent slide into more and more mellow musical territory - even vaguely high-energy tracks like the jaunty opener “Two Pairs Of Hands” and the bluesy “Scavengers Yard” are quite chill, while still proving positively energetic compared to the dozing country-rock of “Smart Money” or the utterly subdued “Black Tie Jobs” and “This One’s Not Going To End Well”. You can read the rest of the review here...

John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat Whiskey & Wimmen'

Johnny Young And His Chicago Blues Band Wild, Wild Woman

Blue Oyster Cult, Ghost Stories was released on April 12, 2024. "With 15 studio albums prior to the release of the interesting and new Ghost Stories, BÖC truly have no reason to provide us with new music, so they didn’t. What I mean by that is that Ghost Stories is less an album and more of a collection of forgotten pre-production tracks from 1977-1984 (Spectres through The Revölution by Night) as well as another cover from 2016. In other words, this is new old music and not new new music." You can read the rest of the review here...

Bob, thank you for posting. I appreciate it. Very helpful.

Everyone, Hello from Texas! I bought Carver equipment (TFM-35, CT-3) in the early 1990s at the Far East Trader (Navy Exchange, Subic Bay P.I.). They worked well for many years but are in need of some refurbishment at this point. The TF-35 has an issue with the speaker protection relay cycling and I expect needs a re-cap in general. I can't remember if the CT-3 still works, it has been stored for some years (controlled environment). My guess is that it could use a recap as well. I look forward to comparing notes and learning about this gear. Regards, Ernst Land, Jr.

Bob Dylan Just Like A Woman

Soft Cell Persuasion

Her observations with output transformers and measurements vs sound, is similar to Bob's teachings. This relates to the 275 design running the smaller output transformers at higher voltage potential. They don't measure as well into a test bench resistor, but they sure make beautiful music with speakers. The anomaly she speaks of in bench testing with the smaller, worse testing, better sounding transformer, does not show up in loudspeaker testing per application. Bob views the output transformers as the interface between the tubes and speakers, when determining what sounds best as the 1st priority of the design. These are topics related to how the lightweight 19lb 275 sounds so good in spite of criticism from some who are not amplifier designers. Great designers always prioritize audio sonic performance above all else. Designing to measure well is relatively easy. Going down rabbit holes chasing analyzer numbers and assembling a ranking of audio performance based on SINAD, as if offering a better audio experience or sonic value for the customer, is either ignorance or deception by one measurement reviewer that comes to mind. "Arrogance is a sign of ignorance", so there you go.. "Designing an amplifier to sound the best and designing to measure the best, are not necessarily the same goal." Bob Carver. Thank you to EveAnna Manely for sharing the experience and maintaining focus on what sounds best, as the 1st priority for her company.

Now that's a smart gal who knows her stuff cause she explained it so people can understand it.