Phase Linear gear

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  @marksmith7930 · 5 years ago

  I wish Bob had a youtube chann .

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  @donalddeorio2237 · 5 years ago

  I loved Bob's story about building his first amplifier he was trying to get certified in a coffee can because he couldn't afford a chassis. The guy at the McIntosh clinic looked at him skeptically, at first he didn't want to test it, when they asked him the output he said 350 watts/channel. When they tested it, it actually exceeded his specs and the rest is history.  He's got great stories, he is a genius and a marketing wizzard

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  @steveearnshaw2216 · 5 years ago

  When I was 19, I drove from Monterey, California to Edmonds Washington to tour Phase Linear.  They occupied the basement of a Safeway grocery store.  This was 1972. I loved my Phase Linear 400.

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• PH

  @phomchick · 5 years ago

  I think Paul is mixing up Parts Express (in Ohio), and Parts ConneXion (in Canada). But both are great resources for the technical audiophile.

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• MI

  @michaeltamburello · 5 years ago

  Phase Linear was truly the "bomb"  in its days. Nearly every disco in Denver I DJ'd back in the seventies employed them (other than one that used a Crown), and boy, could they deliver. Also didn't know that Bob Carver founded the company. Great video and walk down memory lane! Thanks, Paul!

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• GE

  @Geerladenlad · 5 years ago

  Bob Carver is quite a character and also an audio genius.

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• SP

  @spectrelayer · 3 years ago (edited)

  Phase linear - that was some impressive stuff. I got my 1st amp in 1985 and it was a Carver M400. A 8" cube that weighed 12 lbs & could drive speakers to 200 WPC effortlessly. No cooling fan - the thing acted as if aliens had built it. If you got 2 you could make each a 400 watt mono block amp in about 60 seconds. Glad you identified Bob as a PHYSICIST because electrical engineering is a SUBSET of physics and physics is what Bob brought to the table - hence his amazing designs.

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  @randykinsley5721 · 5 years ago

  Sold Phase Linear gear in the mid seventies.  Along with Mac, Luxman, Nakamichi, B&O, Marantz and an array of high end speakers/turntables and the like.  I was in heaven.  Had a GREAT record collection to demo everything we got to shop for ourselves for the sonic quality.

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  @dawsonian2000 · 5 months ago

  I was 16 when I took interest in high fidelity audio equipment introduced to me by friends in the military during the Vietnam war.! And now at 68, I have a nice collection of equipment with one being a Phaser Linear Model 5100 Serie 2 tuner. I purchased my first piece of equipment a Kenwood KA-3500 integrated amp in 1977. I still have it to this day! Just needs a recap service. As for the Phase Linear tuner. It is a keeper.

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  @jayrektorik1047 · 5 years ago

  Awesome! From a 40 plus year owner of a 700B.

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  @SJR_Media_Group · 4 years ago

  Back in the 70's in College, I had a friend with both Phase Linear 700 Amp and Pre-Amp. He had some high end speakers as well. Sound was incredible. He would crank it up and literally shake the floor in our concrete tower dorms. He was asked to keep it below 9.0 on Richter Scale.

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  @leekumiega9268 · 5 years ago

  The transistors that Bob used for his Phase linear amplifiers were  the new high-power transistors designed for the high voltages of auto electronic ignitions. Also the "flame linear" issue was partially but not totally  solved early on with a modification . A company called White Oak Audio makes a new control board that totally solves the problem.

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