Carver A-500X - 2. Prelude

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2. Prelude
Your new Carver Magnified Current™
THX Power Amplifier carries with it a
heritage of over 15 years of audio research,
development and design refinements.
Carver engineers make use of the latest
advances in electronics ma·nufacturing
techniques to provide state .. of-the-art
high-value audio products which empha-
size innovative technologies and features
at an affordable price.
An American electronics innovator
based in the Pacific Northwest, Carver
began in the early 80s with a series of
product successes such as the C-4000
preamplifier with Auto-Correlator™ and
Sonic Holography'11vi, the TX-l1 tuner with
ACCDTM (Asymmetrical Charge-Coupled
Detector) and the M-l.S stereo power
amplifier, one of the most powerful ampli-
fiers available at tile time for home hi .. fi
uset .As technology has evolved
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so have
Carver's products. In fact, a number of
audio technologies an·d features consid-
ered standard today- including surround-
sound and advanced signal processing-
had their first successful consumer appli
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cations in a Carver component! Many
Carver products are now considered "clas-
sics", and most are still in use with their
original owners who routinely upgrade
their Carver-based systems rather than
replace them. As it has since our
company!s beginning, the Carver name
remains synonymous with leading edge
technology expressed in audio compo-
nents that never become obsolete.
At
Carvers technology is regarded as a
tool used for one purpose: to advance the
science of reproducing sound in the
home. Every Carver employee has this
common goal, from our CEO and Board of
Directors, our Engineering, Sales and
Marketing, Accounting and Finance,
Customer Service and Technical SUPJ?ort
Staff to the Manufacturing and QualIty
Control people who actually put the
products together here in Lynnwood,
Washington. We love home entertain-
ment. The vigilant pursuit of I?roviding
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quality and reliable products aImed at
reproducing audio with absolute accuracy
- whether it be from a treasured I.,P vinyl
recording or the digital formats of tomor-
row - is our corporate vision.
To this end, the A-SOOx was developed
with a number of important design fea ..
tures and goals in mind. A power ampli-
fier has only one job, but a very important
one: amplifying the audio signal without
being disturbed by the loudspeaker load.
Ideally, the signal coming out of an ampli-
fier should be iderttical in every way ex-
cept magnitude to the signal that went
into itt In realitr' there are subtle ways in
which the signa can be changed by an
amplifier, which are described by measure-
ments such as THD, noise, DC offset,
crosstalk and phase shift. All these techni ..
cal terms boil dow.n to one thing - the
signal has been changed (distorted) in
some way from its original form by the
amplifier. I
There are a number of ways to mini-
mize this distortion. One of the most
effective and efficient is to minimize the
signal path~ While that may sound
simple
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it is actually very difficult to
achieve. OUf engineers went to great
lengths to shorten the signal path (pun
intended!) as much as technology and
physics allow. A short signal path pre-
vents corruption of the signal from the
effects of EMI, strayfield magnetic radia-
tion and cumulative reactance in the
critical signal conductors. l~he result is a
much cleaner (and very nearly perfect)
reproduction of the signal at the
amplifier's output.
The A-SOOx is rated conservatively at
250 watts per channel into 8 ohms and
delivers over 400 watts per channel into 4
ohms. It also has the flexibility and power
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