Attention Cary CD Owners

They do offer an upgrade....it's past midnite here so my brain has run out of gas, but I recall it being $1000 or so. You get new innards. The new metal remote and tray, and faceplate do not change.

I contacted most of my customers and worked out a deal with them to let them exchange and pay a difference that I worked out with them. It made a number of people happy campers. I did not want them to be without during an upgrade, and when you DO an upgarde and sell it later, you have to explain it is an upgraded unit, etc etc and take a financial hit.

I felt it was better for customers

Every CD player will be Asian for the drive mechanism as a minimum. Philips or Sony. Usually Philips for the top players. Regardless of where the final assembly point is. All the top players will be the same in that respect.

What counts is what happens next. Some of the analog section in the Cary is U.S. made. They were able to carve a relationship with one of the world's premier digital engineering firms for the rest.

This had caused quite a stir at CES when another company that specializes in digital (and has been negatively effected by the success of the Cary digital line, including the multi channel) came into the Cary room and was quizzing the Cary principles on how they have made in happen.

The main digital board is so complex they went to the company that could make them in a precision automated manner...which is a computer company. And a major one.

Don't forget the digital section of the CD306/200 has EIGHT digital to analog converters in it.