Cary Audio is pleased to announce the addition of high resolution music streaming service Qobuz to our new DMS-550 and DMS-600 network audio streamers. Like all firmware upgrades to our DMS platform, the new Qobuz firmware is absolutely FREE and available now. If your DMS-550 or DMS-600 doesn’t automatically prompt you, simply go into the firmware menu setting and check for updates. Be sure your app is also updated with the new version …Read More
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Synergy and Value, Lightning and Thunder
What if Cary Audio produced a network streamer/DAC with Ethernet and Wi-Fi for just under $1500 that had all the same capabilities as our DMS-500/550/600 platform that NO competition could touch anywhere near its price? What if Cary audio had a Class AB fully discrete 75 x 2 integrated amplifier with heavy duty toroidal power supply for just under $1500 that was built off the same circuit as our 200-watt …Read More
Introducing the DMS-550 & DMS-600
Cary Audio is excited to announce two new network audio players/streamers/DACs, the DMS-550 and DMS-600.
StereoNET Australia Review
Peter Familari from StereoNET Australia reviews the SLP-05 preamplifier and CAD-120S MkII power amplifier.
Introducing the SLI-100 Vacuum Tube Integrated Amplifier!
It is no small feat to develop a product that transcends generations and becomes so ingrained in our society that it immediately conjures images of superior performance and jaw-dropping visions of beauty.
Vacuum Tube vs. Solid-State
The whole tube or solid-state dilemma is somewhat of a misnomer. Once you accept the reality that a tube amp and a solid-state amp are very different in how they operate, you’ll perhaps better understand that each have their own traits.
As We See It: Neutral Bad, Color Good
You read it all the time, “this was the most neutral amplifier we’ve ever heard.” We hear this all the time, “I’m looking for a neutral preamplifier, amplifier, whatever.” We call BS on neutral as well as the ability to hear and judge neutral. Nothing in an audio system is neutral. Not your room, not your flooring, not your ceiling, not your walls, not your furniture, not your speakers, not …Read More
Cary Audio at the Munich Show
Cary Audio will be exhibiting at the High End 2018 Show at the MOC in Munich, Germany from May 10-13. Our exhibit will be in Hall 3, Stand K13.
Mario’s System & Review
No, this is not a dealer showroom! This is the home and personal listening room of Cary Audio Customer, Mario. Not only is Mario’s fantastic system built around the Cary Audio SLP-05 preamplifier, CAD-805AE amplifiers, and DAC-200ts digital to analog converter, but also includes some state-of-the-art, if not artistic, acoustical room treatments. Mario was kind enough to send us some photos of his incredible system. Here is what he has to …Read More
Your Digital is Really Analog
What do DACs, digital streamers, network audio players, CD players and other digital audio players all have in common? They play “digital music,” obviously. But do you also know they all must convert the digital bits, 0’s and 1’s, into analog sound, the sound we hear? That’s the job of the DAC (digital to analog converter) inside the unit.