Bob Carver......

[Still-One]

Maybe he wants to have a comfortable retirement and decided to sell his current company while it has value. His name probably has more value than his products.

[taters]

Originally Posted by Still-One

Maybe he wants to have a comfortable retirement and decided to sell his current company while it has value. His name probably has more value than his products.

I guess you make a good point.

[LordoftheRingsEE]

-- ...Or Bob simply lost total perspective. ...Age, or blue Kool Aid?

[Dr. Sleep]

Could be Emotiva brand is beginning to wear thin and while they had the cash, made Carver a great offer. Carver brand could pull Emotiva to a position of respectability.

[LordoftheRingsEE]

-- The quality and integrity of the people behind make a company.

[cmalak]

I am not sure what all the disappointment is about. Bob Carver was a 3 person team when they first started and they were hand assembling their products. I am sure since the start they probably hired maybe 1-2 people since to beef up the assembly department but at that size it would have been very difficult for them to scale up, plus as Jim said, this was a way to monetize his brand/image and put something aside for retirement (remember he had 2 partners in his venture so it's not all going to him). Plus, this would presumably allow him to do what he likes to do - design amps - while leaving the nitty, gritty crap of actually building and delivering and supporting the product to a larger company that can handle that stuff. The downside is that this probably means his products will now likely be manufactured in China but there are plenty of highend brands who do so today and they are non-the-worse for it, including SF with the Venere line. Plus Bob Carver is not really that much of a marquee anymore so who cares really?

[asindc]

Originally Posted by cmalak

I am not sure what all the disappointment is about. Bob Carver was a 3 person team when they first started and they were hand assembling their products. I am sure since the start they probably hired maybe 1-2 people since to beef up the assembly department but at that size it would have been very difficult for them to scale up, plus as Jim said, this was a way to monetize his brand/image and put something aside for retirement (remember he had 2 partners in his venture so it's not all going to him). Plus, this would presumably allow him to do what he likes to do - design amps - while leaving the nitty, gritty crap of actually building and delivering and supporting the product to a larger company that can handle that stuff. The downside is that this probably means his products will now likely be manufactured in China but there are plenty of highend brands who do so today and they are non-the-worse for it, including SF with the Venere line. Plus Bob Carver is not really that much of a marquee anymore so who cares really?

Well said on all accounts.

[LordoftheRingsEE]

-- No you're quite right Cyril; it's just that now one of their technical staff members (over at Emotiva) is gong to have to change his tune (adapt, adjust) on tubes and proclaim their great merits.

Personally I don't really care, life is life and people treat it the way they want.

[jdandy]

I met Bob Carver back in the early 80's when he was running Carver. He is an interesting character. He has come a long way from the amplifier he originally built in a Maxwell House coffee can and carried to a McIntosh clinic to get it tested, then sat on the curb outside the stereo store and took the first few orders for his original amp.

[LordoftheRingsEE]

-- Wow Dan, truly american audio history! ...Nowadays they put coke in them coffee cans!