Carvin is back baby!

Aww cmon how many times did the stones call it quits...

 

Just got the email. I guess we’ll see how it goes.

 

Does anyone know yet if this is the same owner(s) just rebranding a brand, or is there a new sheriff in town at Carvin?

The logo says CARVIN AMPS - AUDIO.
The only amps I see are the old stuff under the close-out heading.
Do they plan to introduce new bass and guitar amps?

Will they still service amps that were sold before today's announcement?

 

I’ve used their amps for years. Bought two large stage rigs just before the announcement...and they dropped the warranty into the trash. They can shove their tube pedals (and anything else they want to sell) right up their sleazy ethics hole.

 

I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed. I doubt they will do well. The brand never really had much cashe in stores, and they're looking for dealers. I bet they're done inside of five years.

 

Bankruptcy as a financial shenanigan.

 

So Carvin made some bad choices for the last couple decades it seems. But they have been an American institution since 1949. I can understand how they dropped the ball on support for their products. If you're a legitimate customer call the company and ask to speak to a manager. Voice your complaints.

Good luck, Carvin, and welcome back. Hope to see more than just pedals and accessories. And make good on your promises of support for those who supported you. Carvin, you owe your customers that at the very least. After all, you are nothing without your customers, but then you probably know that by now.

 

I'm not saying it's "right", but there's no way you can file for bankruptcy and honor existing warranties. You have to sell off assets, let everyone go, etc. How exactly would they have paid people to do repairs? Where exactly would they have gotten parts? The old owners just defaulted on debt to vendors. Those same vendors weren't going to sell them parts.

Again, I'm not saying it's "right" what happened to those who bought before the shutdown. But it's the height of naivete' to think that a bankrupt company would somehow be able to service warranties. That's just not how it works.

Even if it's the same owners and they have "restructured" they wouldn't have been able to honor warranties while there was no company.

I hope there are new owners. And I hope they succeed. Carvin was an affordable option for decades.

 

Hear here!

 

It might be Carvin in name only - new owners, new designs, new everything except the name.

 

one word: nope

Well, that was three words.

No, eight.

Ten

dammit...

 

So far, it looks like just pedals and other electronic devices. No amps, speakers, or cabs.

 

Power amps that catch on fire and bass cabinets that can't reproduce anything lower than an "A". No thank you. Had one of their four 10 cabs, dropped it off my tailgate, magnet fell of speaker frame. Was glued on with three drops of glue. I kid you not. They were all like that. I have an old Kiesel (from the 1940s) lap steel and amp. Neither works. You'd have to be out of your mind to buy their stuff. Lived next to them all my life, they have a local reputation and it's not good. The guitars/basses are finally adequate, but the amps...just no.

 

Did anyone else ever notice the "Become a dealer" page. Maybe they're giving up on factory direct business model and going retail.

As for complaints, I really don't have and have been using carvin pieces here and there over the past 40 years, but I've been careful to make sure that recent purchases had some positive reviews. I've got a BX1500 that for the most part has been a sweetheart for me. I fell into some extra cash and on a whim ordered one of the MB210s on clearance... it'll be here next week and to be honest, I'm convinced I have to be an idiot for buying something with no exchange/return. They could send me 30 lb paperweight. What could I do?

 

So another importer of Chinese stuff that you really can’t use at a pro-level gig?

 

I LOVE my carvin trc column array pa BUT, to close up shop, sell inventory with no warranty support, then re-open this soon after.....it's a no go for me. That is bullsheet.

 

My Carvin amps have worked well, and they're too old to be warranted now, so I have no complaints personally. But if the brand name is to mean anything, their service and warranty policies have to carry over, and apparently that isn't the case. If Carvinaudio is going to honor warranties from the last five years, they should shout that from the rooftops. It would be a welcome development.