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Looking to re-build my system.... Cary SLP 05

Anyone else has this wonderful preamp? I'm looking to rebuild my system and I'm going to start with the preamp and then amp... then source and speakers. Looking to get back with a Cary SLP 05 preamp.

I had experience with this preamp about 6 years ago, wonderful guy and tube rolled well for me. I have some remaining Sylvania 6sn7 tubes lying around from when I owned the 05 but I did note that I sold my Philips mini watt rectifier tube at some point a few years ago.

Anyone else have great experiences with this preamp? If you upgraded from the 05, what did you upgrade to? The Audio Research Reference 5 perhaps??
joey_v
doug99
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He has the Cary SLP 05 tube preamp with the Cary CAD 500 MB amps, Cary Audio Design 306 cd player and these cool looking DIY speakers.
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vopin&1267636920&openflup&3&4
joey_v OP
663 posts
 
Just purchased the SLP 05.... is there any difference between the original and the newer versions? I noticed the front faceplate is a little different.
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lwin
570 posts
 
I have been lucky to have the Cary SLP-05 for several years now. I tried all the famous 6SN7 tubes and found I like the 6F8G's better. I also installed 1 pair of the Marconi BL-63 tubes and the performance kicked up another notch.The umbilical is a cryogenically treated replacement and performance fuses were installed. I recently replaced the rectifier tube with a metal based GZ34 NOS Phillips Miniwatt which was well worth the expense. The stock preamp is excellent but with a little tube rolling , it can be a knockout.
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