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Default Thoughts on this little oddity, anyone ...?


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** Bob Carver was an expert at coming up with high falutin' names for
various clever dodges he used to save weight and cost.

His " Magnetic Field " amps were nothing of the kind. They simply
employed
a triac based voltage regulator in the AC supply to improve the
regulation
factor of a ridiculously small iron transformer.


Hmm, was anybody in the 70s not obsessed with triac pre-regulation in all
sorts of power supplies?



** What drugs are you on ?

Carver amps were the virtually the only ones to use the idea and the first
( M400) came out in the early 1980s.

( Yamaha made a version and sold about 5. )


.... Phil