Integrated Tube Amplifier, 2004 vintage, Signature edition. I am the second owner. The first owner was a Cary dealer from AR. The amp is in excellent condition. Comes with remote control (volume and mute,) bias adjustment cable, owner's manual, original box, spare fuses, and an assortment of tubes. 4ohm/8ohm switchable transformer tap to match your speaker impedance. 3 inputs. All dual mono except for mains transformer. Safely switch between Triode/Pentode while operating. The amp was inspected at Cary Audio in July 2006, where the amp was given a clean bill of health by Dennis Had himself. I bought Manley Snappers soon after that so the Cary has been played little ever since. It is clean and beautiful, very high WAF. It has a microscopic ding on the aluminum faceplate edge, invisible beyond 6", otherwise perfect condition.
The beauty of this amp is that the sonic character is easily tuned to your preference by changing tubes. With 6SN7 as drivers, this has the classic Cary Audio, full and rich sound, yet is still very nimble and fast. If you like your R&B syrupy sweet, switch to triode and install some Mullards or Bugle Boys and you're in heaven! If you want to rock out with fat tube sound, use KT-88s or even EL34s in pentode mode. I love 6550s for classical.
This amp comes with a large collection of tubes. A set of four matched and very neutral sounding SED Winged C 6550C tubes with <1000 hours. Four vintage US 6CA7s, four RubyTubes 6550s (also SED 6550C, came as stock), three Electro-Harmonix EL34s (one blew before I learned that EL34 only needs 30ma bias current), two vintage RCA 6SN7GTBs, two Chinese 6SN7s (stock), two Sovtek 6922s (stock), two vintage Matsushita 6922s (awesome), two Ruby Tubes chinese 5U4 flared bottle bottle rectifiers (stock), 2 used RCA 5U4G, and 2 NOS RCA 5U4G rectifiers (never used.)
All of the many reviews of this classic amplifier are true. This beauty sounds awesome, and will fit any musical taste with a wide range of tubes. $1800 plus shipping. Thanks for reading.
-Rich
