Cary Audio

Cary Audio makes audio electronics with a strong association with valve amplification. Vintage examples feature in the directory’s vinyl-focused systems.

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SLI-80HS
Amplifiers & receivers
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Vintage tube amplifiers; models unspecified
Amplifiers & receivers
Vintage Cary Audio tube amplifiers, models unpublished. North Carolina SET/PP valve house; current line is at caryaudio.com and @caryaudio.
Dante’s HiFi

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Miami / United States

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Dante’s uses vintage Cary valve amplification. No individual model is specified in the supplied installation information.

Amplification: Vintage tube amplifiers; models unspecified

Inside the system

Klipsch Cornwall mains sit alongside additional Klipsch speakers and subwoofers, Altec five-panel horns and vintage Cary valve amplification. Technics 1200-family decks use Isonoe isolators, with a MasterSounds Radius four-valve mixer and effects unit at the booth. The installation combines different loudspeaker roles with an analogue source chain. Isolation at the turntables addresses mechanical vibration reaching the playback equipment, a practical concern when vinyl shares a room with substantial loudspeakers.

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Minneapolis / United States

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Cary Audio equipment is recorded in this venue’s system. This does not imply that the manufacturer designed or installed the system.

Amplifiers & receivers: SLI-80HS

Inside the system

Klipsch La Scala loudspeakers work with a Cary Audio SLI-80HS integrated valve amplifier. The source equipment includes Luxman PD-441 turntables and a HiFi Rose RS250A network streamer, with a Varia Instruments RDM20 rotary mixer.

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