How good is a Cary PH302?

I have auditioned the Cary PH302 and liked it very much. I have no experience with the Modwright. Also, my dealing with Cary's customer service is 100% opposite with Jazzcourier's. I found Cary to be very customer friendly and very supportive of their products. I would go as far as saying that Cary is one of the best in the industry for customer support.

TO: Petng.

If you are serious about a phono stage, look no further: Go with the ModWright. I own this unit for almost two years now and I am very please with it, and I listen to my system almost every day. Before buying the ModWright, I auditioned SAP phone stage, Graham Slee Era Gold, PS Audio, and the built in phono stage in my McIntosh C2200 pre-amp. None come close to the ModWright, it is just solid. I am not saying the others are no good, but the ModWright is better for me. Another plus (Mentioned in another posting by someone else)is the service and support from ModWright: Second to none. My phono stage had the silver face plate and one call to them and I was able to to exchange it for for a black face plate at a nominal price. At one point I heard a hum coming from my system and I thought it was caused by the ModWright phono stage, I called them up and explained what was going on and they said I should return it. They tested it and did not find any problem with it. When it returned I still heard the hum. It turned out that I had two bad (intermittent) interconnect cables, that was a year ago. Since then no problem. The ModWright is a soolid unit.

Cam the modwright be converted to 240v by a techican, or does it have to be returned to the factory?

Overall I am happy with the Cary, but deep down I know having another 10db oh gain will decrease the noise floor level.

The Cary sounded terrible for the first week. Flat lifeless, no dynamics etc... I really eas dissapointed. But I found out that the lundhal sut needed a lot of hours to burn in. Deep down I thought it was BS!!! But I bought the cary so I had to suck it and see . Well it's been 5 weeks now with about 80 hrs on it and indeed the amp has transformed. It's owned up with great dynamics. The strangest thing is that it sounds a lot louder. I have never had any equipment take sooooo long to break on!

If only the Cary had the extra 10 db!!!

I'm surprised by the Cary customer service comment. I own 5 Cary pieces and any time I've had a problem, e mailing them or calling there customer sevice number has yeilded an immediate response. They have even called me back within an hour of my inquiry. They have a tech to answer any and all questions from, I think ,1 to 5 every day. I'm not affiliated with them just a happy customer

Billy from Cary audio somehow heard of my plight. He has contacted me directly and has already asked one of the engineers at Cary to come up with a solution to give me more gain.

That's great service! I never thought of contacting Cary USA because I had bought this in Austalia.

Will keep you guys posted with the outcome,