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Cary SLI 80


tkam

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I've seen a few Cary SLI 80s go for pretty decent prices on audiogon lately. Been thinking about picking one up to use as a headphone amp and to drive a pair of monitors in a secondary rig. Does anyone have experience with it as a headphone amp? Is it good with all phones? Or just low or high impedance phones?

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Very versitle for the headphone/speaker thing but also the on the fly Ultralinear and Triode switch. It was on the warm side and in my opinion

a little lacking in dynamics too. Per Dennis Had (Sp?), AMB changed a

resistor that added more voltage to one of the signal tubes, don't remember which one, and then also used some SP Slam Adapters for using

5687s for the 6SN7s. These changes all helped but never got me satisfied.

Headphone jack was just OK, not bad but nothing really special either.

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