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Cary Audio Xciter Integrated Amp
     Last week I received the new Cary Audio Xciter Integrated Amp and have been playing it on various speakers and headphones for about 100 hours now.  I am really excited about this little amp-really tight, precise, lots of air, and yet very musical.  Not as dark as some of their other offerings either.  On headphones it really sounds incredible, not that it is bad on the Adagio Jr. speakers.  Amazing amount of power for a little amp.  It is rated at 9W Class A triode with 40W of peak power per channel.  Has a GREAT headphone amp that uses the 6L6 power tubes and is stable from 4 to 600 ohms.   I have tried Goldrings and Sennheisers on it and they sound wonderful.  This is the first purpose built headphone amp Cary has built in a while-and they hit a home run.  Associated equipment includes  MIT CVT2 IC and speaker interfaces, Jolida JD100 CD player and Cary CDP-1 player, MIT AVT MA ic’s, MIT Zcords and Gutwire BA-16 powercords, Adagio Jr. speakers, Goldring DR 150, AKG K260, and Sennheiser HD600 headphones.

Xindac and Cary Audio have both just revealed new Digital Audio Converters for 2009.  Both upscale the digital input  from 16bit/44k or better to 24bit/192k or 32bit/192k.

Xindac DAC-8 is a 24bit/192k upscaler that will accept any digital source through USB, optical, or coaxial inputs.  It has a choice of solid state output or tube output (6922 tube).  You also have a choice of 24bit/96k or 24bit/192k outputs.  The interesting part of this unit is that it has a volume control on the output-for you people who want to forgo the use of a preamp.  The sound stage is huge and deep with very good detailing.  I have one in house for you who want to listen to it first hand.  I would also take it to your home for you to hear it for yourself in your own system.  The company is Chinese, but have warranty repair in Oakland, CA.  Also John Tucker of Exemplar can do upgrades on this piece through us.  Retail price is 1299.00

Cary Audio’s new Xciter line includes a new 32bit/192k DAC.  It has 2 coaxial inputs, optical, and USB inputs, switchable from the front.  It also upscales any PCM source (16bit/44k, or other) to 32 bit 192k and sounds really great with a wonderful soundstage and great depth.  It will be shipping soon to the retail market and the target price is 1500.00

We just recieved our first shipment of the Audioengine W1-a Wireless Audio adapter.  It has a 100′ range, and boardcasts very high quality 2 channel stereo.  It will link between any digital source  with a receiver, preamp, or powered speakers with clean high grade audio broadcast.  Trust me, we did an acid test with it using a Shanling CDT-300 Limited as a source and a Burmeister demo CD  with a 30′ run to the speakers.  It sounded great with no loss of staging or depth of the source material.  Admittedly the run could have been longer, but with the wide bandwidth and spread spectrum tech I doubt that it would have made much difference.This thing is a steal for 149.95.

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