Carvin! This is so Cooool!!!

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Nothin' to lose with their 10 day trial. If you go for it let us know how they sound. That's pretty damn cheap!
 
I dunno VI,... Don't wanna bust your enthusiasm but...
You sure you wanna buy monitors B 4 listening to them?
Even with 10 day thing, and it is a pain in the ass to return them.

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Fire Eyes...

I hear ya...

But as a former Carvin Employee, I have complete confidence in this product.

I was in Quality Control, and I'll tell you-They are obsessed with quality.

And being a mail-order company only, it is impossible to test them out without paying for them first.

But you are right-One should test drive a product before buying it.

But hre is an insider's bold statement...
Not a single Carvin product sucks.

VI
 
Carvin actually does have some brick & mortar in SoCal. There's one in Highlywierd ;) although I try to avoid LA if possible. The place has really gone downhill the last 20 years.
 
VI...

I've owned these Carvin products...
In 1981 I bought a DC-200 KOA and 2 months after that a x-100 all tube amp loaded with a EVM-12 speaker. I've got to tell ya, I still have them (don't use the amp though) These products are great! the sound was feniominal and the quality even better.

Then 14 years after I bought a Valvemaster 100 watt. Had to return it twice cause a resistor kept smokin.

Then our bass player bought a 600 watt Cyclops bass amp,
two weeks after the PLASTIC 1/4" input plug broke. Sent it back, a week after broke again. Finally I opened it up and expoxed the freakin thing on.

Six months after the high side of the bi-amp starts to cut off. Sent it back, they returned it sayin everything was OK, well it still does it. We've sent it back two more times afer that (this thing is freakin heavy) and they still have not been able to fix it.
Apparently it an intermitent problem.

So I started out with great admiration for Carvin but now,..
I don't know....

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I love everything I have owned from Carvin, especially live PA gear. I have only heard one complaint, and that is the same as eyeslikefire in that we sent a tube amp back 3 times to fix an intermittent buzz that never really did get fixed.
I would be leary of the mons though, in that you can't hear them first, and I think you could get more for $279. I have to admit though, the switch is very, very cool.
Let us know...

Pete
 
<battleminnow I love everything I have owned from Carvin, especially live PA gear...>

oops.:) I was sitting hear thinking I'd be leery just based on my one time experience doing sound on a friends pa with 3-way Carvins. I had to fight like crazy to try to get rid of a big peak up in the screech-range, but the spec sheet shows flat-ish.
(But that was only once, several years ago and it wasn't that very different from a lot of pa's.)
Wayne
 
I loved the few pieces of Carvin gear ive dealt with (but unfortunately, never owned)...a few guitars, small amps, smaller PA's.....

this seems to be their first venture in studio monitors so i would be leary as battleminnow....

right at $300 shipped for passive monitors....i think you get get more for the $$$......
 
I don't think I have EVER dealt with a piece of Carvin gear that doesn't have an electronic buzz that won't go away! It is their signature sound it would seem.....:(

Buy some Event 20/20's. Having heard Carvin crossover network designs in their PA gear, I would be VERY suspect in how "accurate" these monitors really are. For what you are going to pay for them (including shipping) you can probably get the 20/20's for the same price. Even if you pay a tad more (like up to 20%) you are at least getting monitors that come with some VERY nice professional endorsements.

But, a fool and their money is soon parted, and many fools have been parted with their money on Carvin gear. My roommate swore by their bass amps for years (yet he was always complaining that his bass wouldn't cut through a mix!!!:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: ). He finally bought a stinkin' Sansamp preamp and bypassed the Carvin preamp altogether. His "cut" in the mix improved significantly. For the same money he paid for both, he could have purchased a MUCH better power amp that outputs it stated rated power (I have never heard a Carvin amp put out as much HEARABLE power as a comparable ANY OTHER BRAND amp in side by side tests....). But bass amps aside (and I have dealt with their crap too many times in the studio and at live gigs, putting up with grounding problems in EVERY case a Carvin was used....) I have found their PA gear impossible to deal with. I just don't hear where their stuff is worth even half what a person pays for it. In 15 years of professional live sound, Carvin is the one name that is sure to make me cringe when I see it on the PA.

Anyway, if you buy them, well, good luck. :)

Eddie
 
Yep, 20/20's can be had for $300/pr.....Tannoy Reveals $320/pr......for a smaller monitor comparable to the Carvin, you can get Yorkville YSM1's or Tannoy ProtoJ's for under $200/pr........
 
Im sidetracking a little here..

How much does a good amplifier cost. Lets say for these Carvins? or a pair of event 20/20?

And back on track, Ive had great experiences with Carvin. I owned the Ms3200 100Watt guitar head. For $600, that thing was a steal. Ive also played their do it yourself guitars, and Ive bought guitar components from them (tuners, etc). Liked em all.

Todd
 
I own two pieces of Carvin gear. A 1980 Les Paul style curly maple electric guitar and a 1985 100 watt Carvin stack.

The guitar I wouldn't trade for the world...great action and sound.
The amp has given me some intermittent problems over the years with buzzes etc...mostly related to bad tubes, potentiometers and a bad capacitor.

I've also got several musician buddies who own Carvin axes and amps...

The axes are always top notch but the amps always seem to have some problems.

What's the warranty on the monitors? I just had an Event go bad and they are going to fix it for me. It will just cost me shipping and 10 days without mixing... :(:(:(

Check into the warranty before you buy it.

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