Cary 805 AE Feedback Request

need to be turned on for 2 hours before they can listen

Do you really believe a manufacturer would make a product that required a two hour warm up?Comments like these are from audio snobs who obsess with things like this.Sure,most tube amps need a bit of time to warm up,but two hours,give me a break.Just my opinion,I'm sure others will disagree and that's perfectly fine with me.

I own these amps. Due to a change in speakers, I haven't run them for some time. But, IIRC, the character of the sound MIGHT change a (little) bit over the first 20 minutes or so, but nothing really dramatic. You can listen happily after 2 minutes.

As to reliability. Only one isssue. Cary loves those elegant thin toggle switches and uses them for the Bal/SE choice on the rear of the (very heavy) chassis. There is a natural tendency to lift the amp from the front, but doing so can (and, in my case, did) snap off one of these switches. Other than that - dead reliable.

I've also owned Cary 300B monos for about a decade and never had a problem there, either. Or with my Cary 303 CD player, for that matter. Generally reliable and well made stuff - IME.

Good Luck

Marty

Thank you so much for your insights.

May I ask if the 805 AE's have some of that 300B magic that you had with your Cary CAD 300B monoblocks?

I'd love to get a pair of CAD 300B but unfortunately 15 watts won't be enough to drive my Sonus Faber GH so that is why I am looking at the CAD 805's.