Below are some excellent professional reviews of our SLI-80HS vacuum tube integrated amplifier.
“In my system, the tubed SLI-80HS sounded great with conventional loudspeakers and horns alike and with all styles of music. It provided an uncluttered pathway to musical satisfaction, LP after LP. The Cary possesses all the qualities tube aficionados seek—and, perhaps due to its solid-state rectification, good if not spectacular grip on low-end fundamentals. Most important—and here’s where it shares more than just wood-finish choices with Klipsch—it’s tremendous fun.
In triode mode, which I favored, the Cary’s 40Wpc won’t drive every speaker—but with that consideration noted, the SLI-80HS ranks near the top of all the many tube integrated amps that have passed through my door.”
– Ken Micallef, Stereophile. Click here to read the full review.
“The sound is divine. Absolutely divine. I thought some of our other setups were nice, but the tube amplifier combined with vinyl might be the best combination that I’ve seen in a long time. The hilarity of this isn’t lost on me as I contemplate how ubiquitous vinyl and high-end tube amplifiers were in the 1970s and 80s. Here we are in 2021, test driving modern takes on older staples.”
– Henry Clifford, Residential Tech Today. Click here to read the full review.
“Over the years, I have heard many great amplifiers from all the topologies used today. Cary has always been a tube-focused amplifier company, and it shows. They have had solid-state designs, but tubes have always been their passion. This is very apparent in their SLI-80HS.
Being a hand-wired American-made product is something getting harder to find in today’s world, and I give Cary credit for that. If you are in the market for a tube-integrated amplifier that can switch between class A and class A/B, allow you to use several different tube types, and sounds exceptionally good, then I have no choice but to give the SLI-80HS a wholehearted recommendation!”
– Douglas Moore, The Sound Advocate. Click here to read the full review.
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