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<p><img class="story_image" src="http://www.stereophile.com/images/060213-Cary-600.jpg" /></p> “I recognize those speakers,” I thought to myself as I entered Cary Audio’s room. They were ADAM Audio’s Column MK3 towers ($7500/pair), that Kalman Rubinson had very favorably reviewed in <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/content/adam-audio-classic-column-mk3-loudspeaker">August 2012</a>. New in the room was Cary’s promising DAC-100T tubed D/A processor ($2995), which uses an ESS Sabre 9023 DAC chip with a USB input using an XMOS USB chip running Gordon Rankin’s Streamlength asynchronous code. There are also two each coaxial and TosLink S/PDIF inputs and both balanced and single-ended analog outputs.
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The rest of the system featured Cary’s SLP-05 preamp and SA500.1 class-D 500W monoblocks, hooked up with WyWires. “Silky highs,” read my notes, as I listened to a Diana Krall recording. (For the record, I <i>like</i> Diana Krall.) </p>
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/cary150adam150wywires]
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The rest of the system featured Cary’s SLP-05 preamp and SA500.1 class-D 500W monoblocks, hooked up with WyWires. “Silky highs,” read my notes, as I listened to a Diana Krall recording. (For the record, I <i>like</i> Diana Krall.) </p>
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/cary150adam150wywires]