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You will need to give any Cary CDP a looooong break-in.

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Give the 303/300 time to settle in. These players need a LONG break-in, and each output stage will need separate playing time to break in.

My experience with the Cary 303/100 and 303/200 was that it takes about 100 hours of continuous play for the Carys to start coming into their own. I found 200 hours to be the absolute minimum for break-in and somewhere around 400 hours as the point of maximum improvement.

Bright, mechanical and synethetic is not the Cary house sound, at least not as I ever experienced it - in fact, it's about as far as you can get from what Cary normally sounds like. One of the Cary's chief virtues is a large soundstage, very wide and spacious, with a warm tonality. My two Carys didn't throw the world's deepest soundstage but it wasn't narrow.

I think you'll also want to roll the tubes. Others can guide you there.

I used both my Carys single ended, and I thought either of them beat any Sony SACD player I ever heard on Redbook, including the 777ES.


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