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RE: Audio Show Experiment.......

> Maybe they failed commercially because in the end they DIDN'T sound like a
> good tube amplifier.

I am afraid the evidence is against you. The supporters of the expensive valve amplifiers were unable to distinguish the sound of the valve amplifiers from the sound of the solid state amplifier modified to sound the same.

> Maybe they didn't even sound like a good SS amp either.

Of course not. They were modified to sound the same as a particular valve amplifier.

> Maybe they were simply a bad design from the beginning.

You can certainly make a case for this but it rests far more on bad marketing than on anything technical.

> Lots of maybes there and no conclusions.

In the case of the Carver amplifiers I believe there was full agreement on the sound of the amplifiers from all directly involved. No maybes and a firm conclusion fully inline with established knowledge.

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