Amplification: Balanced Audio
Type: Two-channel CD and SACD player
log circuits are direct coupled (no capacitors in the signal path).
SPECIFICATIONS
Mark Levinson No.326S preamp; Cables
signal paths for CD and SACD, as well
today's world $6000 for a machine of
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and interconnects: Nordost Valhalla, MIT
AES/EBU (XLR jack), TosLink optical
Digital outputs: Coaxial (RCA jack),
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MANUF A CTURER INFORMA TION
interface
for the PCM signal path, and an identical configuration of different DACs for the SACD
signal path.
ommended not just for its sound quality,
about its fundamental musicality there
Loudspeakers: Wilson Audio MAXX 2;
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exemplary. The fact that Cary went to
CD 306 has a whopping eight digital-to-analog converters: left +, left , right +, right
Given the extremely high build-quality, custom transport mechanism, gorgeous met-
knife of CD players: It upsamples for
expected the CD 306 to cost much more than $6000.
Control port: RS232 remote-configuration
crete regulation for the digital and analog circuits (IC regulation is used on the supplies
work that would be at home in much
features, and build, but also because in
cold. Find your own antonyms to those
the Cary CD 306 isn't: dry, thin, hard,
gorgeous to look at and use, with metal-
entire chassis acts as a heat sink and is warm to the touch. Power consumption is 65W.
The CD 306 also has eight analog output stages, all of them discrete (no op-amps,
verter for other digital sources, and
descriptors and that's what the CD 306
It was hard to put my finger on exactly
unbalanced on RCA jacks
mon to the DACs will cancel when the signal are eventually summed. This means the
upsamples for conversion by an outboard
Price: $6000
mats, says much about the designer's
1020 Goodworth Drive
the trouble and expense of eight DACs
is. In addition, the 306 is the Swiss army
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processor, acts as a digital-to-analog con-
more expensive products. Finally, the
ASSOCIATED COMPONENTS
save for the mandatory current-to-voltage converter in the PCM signal path). The ana-
this caliber is a stone-cold bargain.
as fully differential DACs for both for-
equipment
why I found the CD 306 so musical, but
to the control electronics).
Weight: 37 lbs.
Analog outputs: Balanced on XLR jacks,
Dimensions: 17.75" x 4.5" x 14.5"
The power supply is also impressive. It features two large transformers and all-dis-
commitment to sound quality.
Oracle. Power conditioning: Shunyata
was no doubt. It's easier to describe what
Room Systems
i.LINK (FireWire)
Technologies VK-600SE monoblocks;
and analog output stages so that they
alwork, tweaky design and implementation (the eight DACs, for example), I would have
Conclusion
attention to detail in the circuit design is
analog output stages, lots of discrete power-supply regulation--the CD 306 runs very hot.
could provide separate and optimized
In short, the Cary 306 is highly rec-
RH
decodes HDCD discs. The player is also
Digital inputs: Coaxial (RCA jack),
As a result of all this circuitry--two separate signal paths, differential DACs, eight
Python power cords; room by Acoustic
Apex, North Carolina 27539
AES/EBU (XLR jack), TosLink optical,
In fact, this is the warmest-running CD player or digital product I've encountered. The
Research Hydra-8, Hydra-2, Anaconda and
r e p o r t
&
output on its analog audio jacks and
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