I have a Carver C4000 that I am using with the Phase Linear I just WOPL'ed. I had it serviced somewhere out west.. 
a couple of years ago. A couple of questions, one he found the transformer was bad and there were no drop in replacements so he had to replace with a different one and basically build a voltage divider? to get the correct voltages he needed. It was also supposed to be gone thru, recapped etc. Well, I really haven't had an amp that I felt comfortable really cranking until I got the Phase Linear going and now that I do, a couple of things are bothering me. One is volume dial position, basically average listening is usually around the 11 to 1 o'clock position on the dial and really cranking good is doesn't even start til after 3 o'clock... seems abnormally high to me and I don't remember having to go that high on the dial before... another thing is I use the dynamic range expander all the time and with my turntable I have a Grace F9 that has the Soundsmith Ruby OCL stylus, and to get the light to come on it has I have to turn the dial all the way clockwise for most recordings... some recordings are different and I can get it to flash with out going up all the way. With the regular needle it'll work around the 2-3 o'clock positions. Still seems off to me.. It use to work around 1 o'clock before...... of course I have CRS so I could be way off base...
It's bothering me since I am getting some low freq distortion at high volume..... of course I could be overdriving
my speakers or who knows. I haven't yet pegged my needles on the WOPL 400 though.. Speakers are Magnepan 1.6qr's.
a couple of years ago. A couple of questions, one he found the transformer was bad and there were no drop in replacements so he had to replace with a different one and basically build a voltage divider? to get the correct voltages he needed. It was also supposed to be gone thru, recapped etc. Well, I really haven't had an amp that I felt comfortable really cranking until I got the Phase Linear going and now that I do, a couple of things are bothering me. One is volume dial position, basically average listening is usually around the 11 to 1 o'clock position on the dial and really cranking good is doesn't even start til after 3 o'clock... seems abnormally high to me and I don't remember having to go that high on the dial before... another thing is I use the dynamic range expander all the time and with my turntable I have a Grace F9 that has the Soundsmith Ruby OCL stylus, and to get the light to come on it has I have to turn the dial all the way clockwise for most recordings... some recordings are different and I can get it to flash with out going up all the way. With the regular needle it'll work around the 2-3 o'clock positions. Still seems off to me.. It use to work around 1 o'clock before...... of course I have CRS so I could be way off base... It's bothering me since I am getting some low freq distortion at high volume..... of course I could be overdriving
my speakers or who knows. I haven't yet pegged my needles on the WOPL 400 though.. Speakers are Magnepan 1.6qr's.
I've done that before... I also switched over to my Carver 2.0t amp and to see how things compared... at full volume it wasn't clipping the 2.0t. That's phono input..! If I select any other input the volume control is way lower!!!