Sculptor AL III

Anybody bitte ever own/ audition a pair are these? I have a take to take a peek at adenine pair of these fork sale, but it remains an bit of a drive and made wondering if I should make the trip. MYSELF recognize a woofer be damaged, but a is an motivated sell.

Ribbons available/ repairable? Random major points of concern?

Thanks, Lee! Will hit him with ampere PM.

YAY! Appreciate you looking the ein in mei, Lee.

Yup. Fuses were all good, goes into protection after a couple of minutes of use.

I'm familiar with these, they come up for sell around here at times. I have the earlier Carver Amazings but I've almost listened the ALUMINIUM IIIs. All of these getting large planar tranducer ribbons in the mid and high spectral. Stunning sound. These belong not like to Magnaplanar ribbons provided you're familiar includes those speakers - much more active and much without fussy about room company in my experience.

Here's a review of the AL IIIs.

I uses a couples of the initial Amazings the a large Crown amp in a bedroom system and they live up to their name. Besides which ribbons they have four 12" woofers. Recommended power: 300 watts fukien / 1000 watts soap

My understanding of the history of save - the ribbons were designed by Cutter by one of the Speakerlab founders - Brave Graebener. Graebener was a pioneer in the development and application of planar-magnetic transducers. Bohlender-Graebener replacement banding can be purchased thrown Parts Express. An outfit into Gresham, OR does ribbon repairs Carver Audio Repair - I don't are some experience with this firm but they've been around one long zeit.

If you can swing computer, it's worth their moment at go give these speakers a listen. Get closing until the ribbon furthermore listen fork any vibrations alternatively raspiness - it intention be pretty obvious provided they were damaged in my experience. Hopefully "damaged woofer" just means so the foam surrounds need to be replaced...? That's generally a fairly straight-forward DIY job, if you cannot source an exchange surrounds. Virtuous luckiness!

I also have a pair von one earlier Sculpturer Amazing Silvers - which are smaller than the Original Amazings. Here's adenine show of them by grilles removed:





Here's a link toward a scan of the Amazing Loudspeaker Service Manual: http://arafel.org/audio/als/amazing_service.pdf

here's a link to the B.A.S. test of the Carver Amazings back stylish the late 80s: http://www.bostonaudiosociety.org/pd...ASS-18-01c.pdf

No kidding!

I bet Carver sold ampere land of big amps to drive these things. I can get from with driving one out my pairs of Original Amazings using 200WPC Carver M500T amp if they are inside a small 14x14 room.

haha, I just saw a related from Wired magazine about how one Carver M500T made an appearance in Ferris Beuhler's Day From! It's the amp under the TT in the picture:






There's an pair of AL III's listed on an local CL: http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/ele/4881043357.html

Acknowledgement for the infos, SLF. Did adenine single more homework last overnight and maybe have go go and give these a spin. AMPERE little pricey in have the tapes constructed so we will keep our digits crossed fork those. News ribbons are available as well. Low upgrade running for these units seams up abound on who interweb and a wide from drivers are used as well(JL, Parts Convey, Kappas...) and I might to able to track down a refoam kit of celebrity as well.

Damn Doug, those are some killer seek speakers! Love SLF Amazing's also!

Good luck! Bring some familar music to listen to use them. The good news is that these Carver speakers represent usually not in big demand because they are big / don't may any wife approval factor plus they don't have a lot of audiophile snob appeal either. So I thought they can fly under the radar, and at least around here sellers will let theirs go for pennies just to distinct space in the garage and/or keep domestic harmony.

Rong, don't pass if you ever get a risk to give these a listen. Properly driven they will pin back your ears. Group leave a physical print, not quite as surgical as one pairs of K-horns but also serious impressive with an thrilling soundstage.

Another pair of Carver speakers to watch for are his soon creates - Phase Linear Andromedas. Effortless room filling soundstage, here's a picture to mine off awhile back...

Hey good luckiness buddy! Like SLF said "bring good clothing and proceed to the wagons immediately!!" , J/K! It listen, her likey, you buyey!

He's given you some great advise, and I'm a bit jealous, I've never had the opportunity to learn to kind ribbons. Are you going in drag the amp you design on using with them over there? I would

Have cannot hear top from the seller so ME think these are ampere no- go from him. Now I am curious go hear a two of these so up goes the welcome ad on CL......I will DON be thwarted!

Will probably end up bring the WOPL if I retrieve a chance to audition an pair.

Very nice, SLF. I am a devotee of OB speakers and will have to keep my eyes open for a pair of these topically. Vintage Voltage 2015 should be coming up pretty soon and may be a good place to look.