[meby]

Selling my Cary SLP-88 to pay for new pre-amp which is on the way.  This has remote volume and mute functions and uses 2 6sn7 tubes.
I have the original box and will double box for safe shipping.


"Now, with the Cary SLP-88 preamp in my system, whether feeding the Cary Rocket-88, or either my ASL or B&K amps, the music takes on a quality of reproduction I've not before experienced in my home. My lifelong obsession with not adding anything to the signal at this point, which I have always been convinced an active preamp would do (and a tube preamp would do even more) is gone, done, c'est finis. Does the Cary SLP-88 add anything? Well, if improved dynamics, detail, and a much better sense of rhythm is "adding something" then yes it does. If increased sense of scale, pace, and harmonic richness is "adding something" then again, yes, the Cary SLP-88 does. If simply improving my level of enjoyment while listening to music is "adding something" then by golly, the SLP-88 adds plenty, and I'll gladly take all it can add.

There is not a single area of either sound reproduction or musical capabilities that aren't improved with use of the Cary preamp in my system. And this isn't just as compared to an aging moderately priced solid state device like the PS Audio. In the many years that I have had this preamp (only my Linn LP-12 has been in my system longer) I have often tried full active preamps, both solid state and tube. In every case until now, always felt that, though they improved musical playback in some areas, ultimately, I was better off returning to the PS Audio in passive mode. Not any more. I plug my PS in now, and I feel let down, like an important part of the music, the very heart and soul of it, is missing. "

Steve Lefkowicz- Positive Feedback review

[ecruz]

Do you have any photos you can send me?  Any cosmetic issues?

ericandsheryl@ameritech.net

[guest1632]

Selling my Cary SLP-88 to pay for new pre-amp which is on the way.  This has remote volume and mute functions and uses 2 6sn7 tubes.
I have the original box and will double box for safe shipping.

$875 including shipping (CONUS only) and no paypal fees. 

"Now, with the Cary SLP-88 preamp in my system, whether feeding the Cary Rocket-88, or either my ASL or B&K amps, the music takes on a quality of reproduction I've not before experienced in my home. My lifelong obsession with not adding anything to the signal at this point, which I have always been convinced an active preamp would do (and a tube preamp would do even more) is gone, done, c'est finis. Does the Cary SLP-88 add anything? Well, if improved dynamics, detail, and a much better sense of rhythm is "adding something" then yes it does. If increased sense of scale, pace, and harmonic richness is "adding something" then again, yes, the Cary SLP-88 does. If simply improving my level of enjoyment while listening to music is "adding something" then by golly, the SLP-88 adds plenty, and I'll gladly take all it can add.

There is not a single area of either sound reproduction or musical capabilities that aren't improved with use of the Cary preamp in my system. And this isn't just as compared to an aging moderately priced solid state device like the PS Audio. In the many years that I have had this preamp (only my Linn LP-12 has been in my system longer) I have often tried full active preamps, both solid state and tube. In every case until now, always felt that, though they improved musical playback in some areas, ultimately, I was better off returning to the PS Audio in passive mode. Not any more. I plug my PS in now, and I feel let down, like an important part of the music, the very heart and soul of it, is missing. "

Steve Lefkowicz- Positive Feedback review

Hi, Just curious, what you replacing that Cary with?

Ray

[Goosepond]

PM sent.

Gene

[meby]

Now listed on Ebay if anyone is interested.