New Cary DMS 700

Thanks everyone for all the information and suggestions.  I'm still working through my NAS issue and may switch to a local SSD soon if I can't get things working.  In the meantime I thought I would let you all know what I think about the 700.  Before buying the Cary I used an Altair (gen 1).  It sounded good but was fatiguing compared to my TT.  I have a Cary Xciter DAC in my retired equipment closet and just for the heck of it I decided to run the streaming output of the Altair into the Xciter DAC. Big difference!  More analog and enjoyable listening to my ears.  I believe the Xciter uses the same AK DAC family as the newer Cary streamers.  So that's what got me looking into the DMS-700.  Now onto the DMS-700.  When I first fired it up I noticed more detail and truer instrument tones.  Acoustic instruments sounded significantly more real.  Low end was more solid and balanced in the mix.  Timing was improved too.  It wasn't until the 4th day of ON time that I starting hearing acceptable image, focus and air.  I'm on day 7 of running in and the DMS-700 is now exceeding my previous digital system in all aspects.  It's also giving my class B analog equipment some competition too.  I'm really enjoying it.

crowe300.  Thanks for your help.  With your information and a couple of hours on youtube I was able to get the DMS-700 communicating with my NAS!!!!!!

Hi there, has anyone upgraded from the DMS-600 to the DMS-700 that would care to comment on any SQ differences? Thanks!

I upgraded from the DMS-550 and I am about 140 hours on my new DMS-700 (ran the first 100 hours on a repetitive PSAudio burn-in CD). Daryl at Cary Audio has been awesome to work with. I have the DMS-700 connected to a T+A PA3000HV integrated amp with a PSAudio PW CD Transport connected to the DMS-700 via digital XLR.

I find, that the DMS-700 has an exceptionally natural sound signature with no sense of listening fatigue, especially compared to some of the equal or higher priced competitive products that I have tried in my system (Lumin and Aurender). Listening to my reference material on the DMS-700 reveals greater resolution, a larger more transparent sound stage with a wonderful analog warmth and smoothness. One area the DMS-700 excels is its ability to reproduce very heavy deep bass. The implementation of the AK4499EQ DAC chips (R2R ladder DAC) with FPGA technology has significantly improved the performance over the DMS-550.

Some great new features on the DMS-700 include the ability directly copy files over the network to the SD card and USB drives that are attached to the DMS-700. All in, I think Cary Audio has created an excellent digital source - streaming - pre-amp - DAC.