| Cary Audio Design at CES 2010 | |
Once again, that time is upon us. Time to put another great year behind us and start looking towards the future. Fortunately for us, the future begins in Las Vegas! Yes, it’s time to pack the bags and make that annual pilgrimage to the oasis in the desert… Cary Audio Design is extremely excited to once again be kicking off the New Year in Las Vegas at the 2010 International CES Expo. As with the past 3 years, we will once again be displaying our products on the 29th floor of the Venetian Tower in suite 29-111. We are looking forward to debuting the latest products from Cary Audio Design this year and are excited to see all of our old friends again. Below is the list of products which we will be displaying at this year’s CES.
Active 2-channel demo SLP 05 – fully balanced, dual mono, vacuum tube preamp
Active multi-channel demo Cinema 11a – high resolution, multi-channel, home theater surround processor
Active desktop audio demo Xciter amp – desktop, integrated/dedicated headphone vacuum tube amplifier
Static 2-channel & multi-channel display CAD 805 AE – pure Class A, single ended triode mono-block amplifiers Most importantly, we are extremely thrilled to be debuting a brand new, cutting edge product at the 2010 CES Expo in Las Vegas. A first for our company, we are proud to announce that the first ever Cary Audio Design music server will be on display in one of the active 2-channel demo systems. Complete with features such as FLAC storage and playback, artist/album/genre/song/album art display, Apple iPhone and iPod touch application for control, SHOUTcast Internet Radio support, 24/96kHz playback over USB and 1 terabyte of storage (roughly 2800 CD’s), we are determined to provide the best in music storage and hard drive playback. Please make it a point to come by the Cary Audio Design room located in suite 29-111 of the Venetian Tower for your demonstration. Once again, we are excited to be heading to the International CES Expo in January. It is a new year for Cary Audio Design and a new year for all of you. Let’s get 2010 started off right and kick the New Year off in a positive fashion. Come by and spend a few minutes with the Cary Audio Design team in suite 29-111 in the Venetian Tower. Let’s make 2010 the absolute best year possible! Together, we can absolutely make that happen. We look forward to seeing you there!
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| Billy Wright named President of Cary Audio Design | |
November 2 , 2009 Cary Audio Design is pleased to announce the promotion of Billy Wright to the position of President. Wright has been the company's COO since 1992, and his extensive experience will help make this transition a smooth one for Cary Audio Design. Wright will continue to manage the operations and sales channels while overseeing new product design and R&D. This change was effective upon the retirement of Dennis Had on October 7th, 2009. Had's passion for audio has spanned fifty years; since founding the company in 1989, he and Cary Audio Design have become icons of the two-channel vacuum tube audio industry. Since 1992, Had and Wright as partners have successfully grown Cary Audio Design to its current leader status in the high-end audio industry. Looking to retirement, Had plans to pursue other interests while continuing to consult on future vacuum tube designs for Cary Audio Design. Cary Audio Design has an extensive history in developing innovative and award-winning tube-based products. Over the past ten years, the company has diversified its product line into other areas within the high-end audio and video industry. Many of these products are recent award winners, including the Cinema 11a processor and the CAD 120S amplifier. Cary Audio Design's offerings are unique as they cover the spectrum from both vacuum tube and solid state two-channel products to digital and home theater gear. Over the coming years, Cary Audio Design will continue to focus its efforts on designing and producing the best sounding and highest performing audio and video components.
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| Cary Audio Design at Cedia 2009 | |
Hello everyone, Well, it is that time of year again. It’s time to pack up shop and head to the 2009 Cedia Expo, this year at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta Georgia. Cary Audio Design will once again be displaying our full line of home theater products at this year’s Cedia show in booth 3313. We are extremely excited to once again be showing the best of what we have to offer in the home theater realm of our product line. We are also thrilled to be displaying several new products for the first time ever. The following products are new for Cary Audio for the 2009 show. The new Model 2.300 is a stereo power amplifier rated at 300 watts per channel into an 8 ohm load. With a 1500VA universal voltage dual primary transformer, there are four independent power supplies within the Model 2.300, one for each rail of each amplifier channel. The power supply also incorporates inrush current limiting that is switched out after a short time period once the amplifier has been powered on. This allows the amplifier to not cause brown outs when switched on, but pull the high currents necessary for proper performance when in operation. On the audio input section, the Model 2.300 utilizes the THAT Corporation 1200-Series In-Genius™ high-CMRR (Common Mode Rejection Ratio) input stage which feeds the new National Semiconductor LME49811 High Fidelity Power Amplifier Input Stage. The LME49811 chip drives the final, balanced bias circuit and a triple output stage yielding an unprecedented low noise level, superb balance, and extraordinary power levels. The new Model 1.600 is a mono power amplifier rated at 600 watts into an 8 ohm load. With a 1500VA universal voltage dual primary transformer, there are four independent power supplies within the Model 1.600, one for each rail of each amplifier channel. The power supply also incorporates inrush current limiting that is switched out after a short time period once the amplifier has been powered on. This allows the amplifier to not cause brown outs when switched on, but pull the high currents necessary for proper performance when in operation. On the audio input section, the Model 1.600 utilizes the THAT Corporation 1200-Series In-Genius™ high-CMRR (Common Mode Rejection Ratio) input stage which feeds the new National Semiconductor LME49811 High Fidelity Power Amplifier Input Stage. The LME49811 chip drives the final, balanced bias circuit and a triple output stage yielding an unprecedented low noise level, superb balance, and extraordinary power levels. The new CD 303T SACD Professional Version is the follow-up to our award winning CD 303/300 player. This new player is a vacuum tube and solid state selectable SACD, HDCD, and Redbook CD player. In keeping with tradition, the CD 303T SACD Pro will up-sample to 96, 192, 384, 512 and 768kHz. Also, there is updated internal clocking to 22.5792 MHz in SACD processing mode. When the vacuum tube output section is selected, the analog output utilizes four 12AU7 vacuum tubes as the audio gain stage as well as the output buffer. The CD 303T SACD Pro can also be used as a standalone DAC with switchable inputs for USB (24bit/192kHz), Coaxial and Toslink. Four (4) channel (pairs) Burr Brown 1792u DAC chips running in a true balanced configuration provide the highest quality analog sound from a digital source. Cary Audio Design will also be displaying the following products from our award winning Cinema and Xciter Series of products: Cinema 11a – HD home theater processor Cinema 11v – HD video switcher, scaler, processor Model 7.125 – 7 channel, 125 watt per channel solid state amplifier Model 7.250 – 7 channel, 250 watt per channel solid state amplifier DVD 7 – 1080p upconverting reference DVD and CD player Xciter Headphone Amplifier – Vacuum tube dedicated headphone and integrated amplifier Xciter USB DAC – Cutting edge 32bit USB DAC using the latest National Semi and AKM technologies As always, we are excited to be demonstrating our products at the Cedia Expo, and we very much look forward to seeing all of you there. Please be sure to come by and visit with us at booth 3313 to see all of the new products and latest technology that Cary Audio Design has to offer. We’ll see you there! Jason Barbour |
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This innovative integrated power amplifier was conceived to be a small desktop integrated unit, and designed to please the discerning headphone fanatic and the high-end audiophile alike. In the Cary tradition, it features a gorgeous cabinet, and has a subtle touch of translucent blue LED back lighting to complement the natural beauty of the vacuum tubes. There is a standard quarter-inch diameter, three-circuit headphone output jack located conveniently on the front panel to pipe the music to your favorite set of cans. The circuitry is optimized to provide a good match for all high quality headphones from four to 600 ohms. A front panel switch allows the user to select between external speakers or headphones. The beauty of the Xciter headphone amplifier is that the listener can take advantage of the entire amplifier through the headphone output. When the headphone selector is engaged, the user is listening to the entire amplifier, from the input section to the output transformer. Additional features are loudspeaker outputs and sub woofer outputs - one for each channel, and the motorized remote control function for adjusting listening level and mute. The amplifier’s platform contains two 12AX7A input gain stage/driver stage tubes and four 6L6GC output tubes. Power output is five watts per channel in an eight-ohm load and class A triode mode. It features three selectable line inputs per channel (RCA single ended and gold plated). Sub-woofer outputs are RCA single-ended: one for each channel and gold plated. Capacitors are polystyrene, film, and foil. Power supply capacitors are 7 x 100 microfarad @ 450 VDC (low impedance electrolytic) and 2 x 0.22 microfarad @ 600 VDC (polystyrene Kimber Kaps). Speaker posts are gold-plated copper five-way binding posts. The Xciter Amplifier’s power transformer is high-efficiency Toroidal for both high voltage and low voltage requirements. Power consumption is 85 watts at full-power output. The Xciter headphone integrated amplifier is the first in a series of products to come under the Xciter name. The next Xciter product from Cary Audio Design will be a matching Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) featuring USB, coaxial and TOSLINK inputs. Please stay tuned. Let the Xcitement begin! |
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The Cinema 11a may be used with DVD players and other devices that convert video signals and scale them to higher resolution. To get the optimum surround sound combined with the most vivid, cinematic effects, match the Cinema 11a with Cary Audio Design’s Cinema 11v, the highest-performing video scaler/switcher/processor available. The Cinema Series products offer high-performance multi-channel sound and video reproduction to movie lovers and surround-sound music lovers. |
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When playing back SACD’s, the internal wordclock frequency is 22.5792 MHz, rather than the usual 11.2896 MHz, which offers even greater resolution. Stereophile ran tests on an Audio Precision System One and the Miller Audio Research Jitter Analyzer. The maximum output level from balanced jacks was 5.9 V with both CD and SACD data, and it was 2.93 V from the unbalanced jacks. Both sets of outputs preserved absolute polarity. Output impedance was very low, at 198 Ohms at all frequencies, balanced, and 99 Ohms unbalanced. High, current-regulated power supplies come from large, multiple power transformers and high-current regulators. The internal copper chassis, along with a vented top cover, adds strength, durability, and incredible transport shielding. Atkinson states, “I enormously enjoyed my time with the Cary CD 306 Professional Version. It’s on the expensive side, but for your $8000 you get a well-engineered, solidly built, superb-sounding player with close to state-of-the-art measured performance. And it has that very useful digital input, for use with a network music player. Recommended.” For Atkinson’s complete review of the CD 306 SACD Professional Version CD player, see “State-of-the Art SACD Sound from Cary” in Stereophile’s November issue on newstands. |
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This innovative new push-pull power amplifier is rated at 60 watts per channel in triode mode and 120 watts per channel in ultra linear mode, both rated into an eight-ohm speaker load. The power output is rated at full power from 17 Hz to 23 kHz with rated distortion of less than one percent total harmonic distortion (THD). The output circuit may be switched ‘on the fly’ from triode mode operation to ultra linear mode by using a front panel mode operation button. Triode and ultra linear indicator light-emitting diodes above the mode operation button visually confirm the mode in which the power amplifier is working. The vacuum tube complement, for each channel of the CAD 120S, consists of one 6SN7 octal socket vacuum tube for the input stage, one 6SN7 octal socket vacuum tube for the driver stage and four KT 88 pentode output power tubes. The circuit is a Pure Balanced design with separate RCA and XLR inputs. A soft start circuit is built in for long life and easy turn on, and it features 1,120 microfarads of capacitance in the power supply section. The output transformers and the power transformer are covered by a single transformer cover, painted to match the rest of the chassis. The chassis is finished in Jaguar Anthracite black paint finish, covered with a hard clear coat finish, and comes with a silver anodized aluminum front panel as standard. Front panel meters indicate the circuit bias setting for each channel. These visually indicate proper operation. |
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Cary Audio Design is thrilled to introduce the most recent addition to its storied history of superb vacuum-tube audio technologies, the Xciter integrated amplifier.
Cary Audio Design won ‘2008 Product of the Year’ from Electronic House magazine for the CAD 120S Power Amplifier. Votes were based upon technological innovation, overall value, and outstanding features from Editors of Electronic House Publishing’s four magazines.