Carver Raven 350 Mono Blocks - REDUCED!

Utilizing the mighty Tung-Sol KT120 output tubes, the Crimson/Raven 350 will bring new life to your music library with its extended dynamic range and abundant output power. These KT120s are rated for 60 watts of audio output each, and this amp has six of them for an easy 350 watts rms. These tubes are one and a half times as powerful as the ubiquitous 6550 or KT88. According to Bob, they “sound beautiful, sweet, and so incredibly delicate, that once again, it is difficult to believe. But it's true. Honest! I love their unique shape. The only thing I don't like about them is that it's difficult to see the filaments glow in the dark. The plate structure gets in the way.”

Using Carver's own transformer design, the Raven 350 delivers 350 watts (8 ohms) of pure sonic ecstasy, regardless of the loudspeaker’s impedance vs. frequency. The new, heavier output transformer delivers enormous power through an increased turns ratio, with two extra interleaved windings, each bifilar wound on a core of adamantine steel with a pure nickel center section. The secondary's are wound with oxygen-free copper wire and 98% pure silver wire for the critical internal interconnections. As Bob says, “I could go on and on, but I will say that the bandwidth of this output transformer is an amazing two hundred and fifty kilohertz - that's a quarter of a megahertz!” This extra wide bandwidth ensures perfect stability into one ohm speakers, including those that possess almost impossible-to-drive impedance characteristics! Even the one ohm Apogee Scintillas, or any other speaker that dips down to 0.75 ohms, for that matter. Martin Logan electrostatics, for example, whose impedance drops down even lower than that at very high frequencies.

(to about 0.5 ohms). This amplifier can drive them all with aplomb!