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Cary Audio Design SLM 200 Monoblock

MSRP: $ 9995.00

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Rating
Reviewed by:
Timothy Hirman
(AudioPhile)

Review Date
May 9, 2003

Overall Rating
5 of 5

Value Rating
4 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

Visitors rate this review
4.60 of 5, 5.00 votes

Review 1 of 1

Price Paid: $3500.00 from JB audio (ebay)

Summary:
This is a wonderful amplifier. Very sweet without sounding "syrupy". Very detailed. Bass is unbelievable due to a special output transformer. Will drive almost any speaker. The best amplifiers I have heard are: Atma-Sphere, Jadis, and my Cary SLM 200's.

Strengths:
Beautiful tube sound. Detail. Incredible bass. Lots of power, even when wired in triode mode. The amps run cool. The bias is easily set.

Weaknesses:
Only weakness I can find is that these amps are very heavy. (85# times two)

Similar Products Used:
VTL (recommended), Kinergetics class A (recommended), Hafler, Electrocomponiet, Adcom, Atma-Sphere (highly recommended), Jadis (highly recommended).

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