Anyone heard the new Cary CAD-500MB monos ?


There has been a great review at www.10audio.com - the reviewer actually preferred them to his CJ 350SA.

Anyone heard/owns them ?
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I am cosidering the Cary MB500's for my Maggie 20's, but I find it hard to believe they can pump out this kind of power and current for their rather civilized size/weight. Where are the behemoth heatsinks? The heavy transformers? Are compromises being made somewhere? Unfortunately I can't get any to audition, and there are no "mainstream" reviews, so I have to go on faith and all the enthusiastic endorsements out there, including Oldvinyl's.
There is a review in a recent issue of "inner ear" magazine you may find helpful. It's a very positive review. Its either this months or last months. I hope you can find it. I am still very happy with mine and will be buying some 3.6's to upgrade from my 3.5's. good luck.rudge
Anyone else had a chance to listen to Carys in the past months ?

I'm thinking about selling my Lamms M1.2 for them.
Elberoth.

Since you live in Europe, try to get and have a listen to them first and ask what transformers they have in them.

Me I have had nothing but problems with mine living in Australia. First the transformers the used were insufficient in quality to work properly on 240 vlts. (it gets up to 250vlts down here at night) The tranformers buzzed and noise came thru the speakers. Worst of all pops like lightening bolts came thru the speakers anytime a light or oven was switched on or off.

Cary eventually sent replacements with better rated transformers they got from Germany. I received them a couple of weeks ago.
They are a lot better, however I have send one of the monoblocks back to the importer this week as the transformer still buzzes and he is going to replace the transformer with a new one.

So I have had mine since April, but only played music for about a month.

Sound wise they are very good

I know how you feel - my Lamms also buzz a bit, but at least not through the speakers.

It seems that I will have to check at Cary if the problem has been solved.