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Cary 306 SACD Pro. Etter min mening en glimrende spiller som ifølge Stereophile
overgår Ayre C-5xe. Spes. på SACD er den ( Cary ) en nytelse for sarte ører.
Koster ca. det samme som Ayre og Marantz ( ca. 60k )." Highly recommended "
Mvh
Limer inn konklusjonen i Stereophile der Cary 306 SACD Pro blir sammenlignet med Ayre C-5xe. Det går fram at anmelderen mener det er svært små nyanser mellom Cary'en til 8000$ og Ayre til 5950$ (som også spiller DVD Audio). Ayre er i ettertid som nevnt av Imperial kommet med en ny mp-versjon (nye digital filter), som i følge rapporter fra CES er en betydelig oppgradering.
"Comparisons
I primarily compared the Cary CD 306 with the Ayre C-5xe, which has been my reference hi-rez player for the past three years. SACD comparisons were made difficult by the fact that I don't have duplicate SACDs, though the fact that the Cary has a digital input made CD comparisons a piece of cakeI simply fed the Ayre's AES/EBU data output to the Cary's data input, then used the Ayre KX-R preamp's Input Offset function to match playback levels to within 0.3dB.
Differences were very difficult to hear. But after a while, playing back my 1998 recording of a Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival performance of Mozart's Piano Quartet 1 in g, K.478, with Pinchas Zukerman, from Bravo! (CD, Stereophile STPH014-2), I felt the Cary retrieved just a tad more of the reverberant signature with the solo piano passages. Conversely, on my recording of Robert Silverman performing Beethoven's Piano Sonata 12 on Editor's Choice (CD, Stereophile STPH016-2), I was hard put to hear any difference at all. With Eric Whitacre's Lux aurumque, from While You Are Alive, my new CD from Minnesotan choral group Cantus (Cantus CTS-1208), both players developed a delicious sense of the hall ambience around the singers, but again, with the Cary, that hall was very slightly larger.
I repeated the comparison using a DVD-A I had burned of the 24-bit/88.2kHz masters for the new Cantus CD. Again, the Cary just edged out the Ayre when it came to retrieval of hall ambience. The Ayre, however, gave a tad more weight to the bass singers. But these differences were very small, and detectable only in direct comparisons; if I left the room after randomly switching preamp inputs, when I re-entered, I couldn't identify whether it was the Cary or the Ayre that was playing."