William Sommerwerck wrote:

Whatever Bob meant it to mean. Bob was notorious for coming up with
desciptions that bore little or no relationship to how the circuit actually
worked.


Yeah but that was his worst fault in my opinion.

At least the products he designed/built was reasonably priced and worked.

Some of it like the Sonic Hologram Generator built into a couple of the
preamps did work pretty close to his verbal description, if you could get it
setup properly. Once I got a copy of the "test record", everything fell into
place and I enjoyed that "effect" for years.

Some of the other stuff like the "Auto Correlator" was nothing more than an
adjustable noise gate and was a fairly useless waste of a button and knob.

Same with the TX11 tuner, unless you wanted to drop the 10K (at the time)
for the Day-Sequerra, that was a very good tuner for urban areas like
Chicago.

I probably owned at least one of everything Carver made up through the cd
player (digital time lens?) and never felt ripped off. The only things that
never survived my abuse was a pair of the cubes, but I still have a pair of
the 1.5t's and except for one that has a cold start problem, they both still
work just fine.

You guys are making him out like he was selling Tice Clocks.

That type of wordy hype was fairly common in the 80's, besides Carver there
was DAK Industries, sort of a Sharper Image of the time (which was another
one with long verbal descriptions), Hey! Drew Kaplan here, driving in to
work today I thought to myself, wouldn't it be great to have a electric
shaver that you could plug into your car lighter....

Then 8 or 9 paragraphs on how this razor was designed, developed and how
it's going to end world hunger and spread peace across the world.

Say what you want about Bob Carver but there was the satisfaction of being
the few peices of audio hardware with the "Made in USA" label on them.

-bruce