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In Reply to: RE: If you own a cary,you answered your own question. posted by Michael Samra on April 18, 2010 at 00:42:08
He leaves behind a legacy of some of the poorest examples of audio engineering from a "major hi-end" manufacturer.
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Dennis Had is a business man. He knows thru the school of hard knocks how to extract maximum dollars for a product. He started years ago with little and is a millionaire today. His previous background was building RF amplifiers for the ham radio community with some great RF amps that are collector items today.
And your point is what? He went thru the school of hard knocks and therefore wore a chip on his shoulder and was entitled to screw his customers?
Every direct customer service contact/dealing I ever had (no pun intended)with Cary Audio was handled poorly.
I own a Cary pre-amp. The power supply as supplied from the factory was an absolute piece of garbage. I lost many valuable 6922 tubes until I figured out how to fix the problem. Basically, I had to re-engineer the PS and wound up rebuilding much of the rest of the unit.
Point is, he is not an audio designer. Never was.
correct.
I think he meant well but the main point was the bottom line. I used to make isolation bases for Cary Audio, back in the 90's and I believe he wanted everyone to do well but there was the bottom line first, which is most always the way it is.
My amp had a 1200uf right after the tube (2) rectifier not in series but presented a 1200uf "short".
So Denny retired. When did that happen?
The Elaborate DAC=Johnny's Balloon Meshplate 27 Balanced Preamp=Balanced Six Pacs=Newform Research 645
iRiver H140/MB-1 dual dac/Monica II Dac, modified Woo 6/Protector Balanced amp/Ultrasone Ed. 9/JH13 Pro IEM's
see images at: www.pbase.
in terms of max voltage and power dissipation, or am I thinking of some other geezer?
You mean David Manley? smile......................sky high voltage.............everything run at the ragged edge ................ He ran 7189's from the TT {tiny triodes} in pentode @ 525 volts Sansui 500 A I own runs them in pentode @ 460 volts on the plate and I thought THAT was outrageous. I suppose if you back off the current one could go even higher but sheesh. I have had the same GE 7189 A's running about 2-4 hours a day for a year now for the living room XM/TV set up. Maybe they are tougher than I think and Manley knew it..................maybe I'm too conservative.
The Mind has No Firewall~ U.S. Army War College.
put in some horrible PCB on the tube amps that were dangerous.
The Elaborate DAC=Johnny's Balloon Meshplate 27 Balanced Preamp=Balanced Six Pacs=Newform Research 645
iRiver H140/MB-1 dual dac/Monica II Dac, modified Woo 6/Protector Balanced amp/Ultrasone Ed. 9/JH13 Pro IEM's
see images at: www.pbase.
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