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Unfortunately Yes, well over a year ago...

Posted by AbeCollins on July 18, 2011 at 07:36:33:
I don't know why they discontinued the SixPacs but I can only guess that Cary wanted to focus on their higher-end (more profitable?) line of equipment.

Dennis Had also retired a couple years ago and their Marketing guy (forgot his name) took over the company. Dennis loved to tinker and his SixPacs were some of his best work (in my opinion) especially when you consider their very reasonable price. In fact, the input circuitry on the SixPacs were later incorporated into the more upscale Cary V12 amps. (Latest V12r has the same input circuit as the SixPacs)

So, they're no longer available new and they're harder to find used. Since they were discontinued, I rarely see used ones come up for sale and when I do, they're usually 'beaters' and not in great condition.

I would put those SixPacs up against any 40 - 60wpc tube amp at any price!

P.S. The only reason I no longer own my pair of SixPacs is because I now run very power hungry Thiel CS2.4 speakers and I need well over 200wpc to make them sing. (Even the 150wpc Pass X150.5 was under powered for these speakers).