Carver 1.0t (advertised 1986–1988)

Surviving documentation on the Carver 1.0t, usually written M-1.0t, is almost entirely the company's own advertising. The model was a power amplifier built around Bob Carver's patented Magnetic Field Coil. Carver pitched it hard at a price audiophiles could actually afford.

Audio (February 1988, p.9) ran Carver's claim that for under $625 you could own an amplifier judged to have the exact sound characteristics of an esoteric $3,000 model. About a year earlier, Audio (January 1987, p.21) made the same pitch at under $500. It described the M-1.0t's high-voltage/high-current output as suited to the demands of modern music reproduction. Other designs increase cost, size, and heat output with huge power-supply storage circuits. The Magnetic Field Amplification design delivered its output from a small component instead, which, Carver said, was how the price stayed down.

The amplifier also featured in one of Bob Carver's better-known publicity challenges. Advertising copy in Audio (November 1986, p.119) recounted how he offered to specially modify the M-1.0t for the editors of Stereophile. He would drive it and a far more expensive reference amplifier through some of the finest components and reference speakers in the world, and the editors would concede he had won. That story comes from Carver's own ads, not from an independent bench test by the magazines that carried them.

No independent review, exact production years, or full specifications have surfaced in the records so far, so we won't guess at them.