A quote from one of the guys from another Carver forum who's attending AXPONA:
"I'd just like to add that these speakers are easily the best of the show. With the side firing drivers that are basically floor to ceiling the soundstage is huge, and more importantly the SWEET spot is equally huge. In fact there was not a bad seat in the room. The speakers have a sweet enveloping sound that effortlessly fills the room all around you and you can't pinpoint exactly where the sound is coming from.
When the Stereophile Mag. reviewer Jason Serinus reviewed these spks, was sitting in the front row next to him, he was in the center and I was to his left. I was directly in front of the left speaker about 6' back from it. Jason was given the remote control and he cranked them up the loudest I heard them play all day, and they just came alive. Even though I was only a few feet from the speaker I could not hear the sound coming out from the speaker at me like every other speaker in the show, but it just seemed to emanate from behind and in between the two speakers. I thought they were awesome at the more moderate levels that they had been playing at so people could ask the two Bob's questions without having to shout. All I can say is the more power you put to them the better they sound. Now don't mistake that last statement to mean that they have to be cranked up to sound good like many inefficient speakers need to be to sound good, nothing could be farther from the truth. At the moderate levels the full range of sound/music is being accurately and fully reproduced as close to live music as I've ever heard from a speaker. At the louder levels no listening fatigue at all was experienced, unlike many of the other systems at the show.
Also note in the above picture of the Black Beautys shows what looks like massive amounts of dust on the amps, not so, it is charcoal gray specks (not a metal flake) in the gloss black finish. For lack of a better term similar to splatter paint but extremely subtle, and very tastefully done. In fact we didn't notice it until one of Bob's helpers, Tony pointed it out to us, thus the picture. The finish on all these amps is like a top quality custom show car professional paint job.
For Bob's seminar we got to the conference room about 30 min. before Bob's speech was scheduled to start. We were the first ones there, and lo and behold after a few minutes in Bob walked and came over and sat with us. We had a nice conversation with him and just us for quite a while until this speech started. What an awesome, humble down to earth person he is, and he has a great sense of humor, BEST DAY EVER !!!!!!!! We also spoke with Bob Farinelli at length several times, and he also is a class act and just an all around nice guy too."
