| Cary Audio cinema 1 (CAD 500MB), Monoblock Power Amplifiers (pair)
- Condition: Used
- Price: 2434.85 EUR
- Status: sold
- Item number: 186494732607
- Seller: mac-ivy (121|100.0%)
- Seller information: non commercial
- Item location: Oak Ridge, North Carolina
- Ships to: US
- Shipping: 200,0 EUR
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Description
WELCOME__________________________________________________________ Congratulations on your purchase of the Cary Cinema 1 power amplifier. The Cinema 1 is the Cary Cinema product lines' equivalent to the CAD 500 MB’s from our Cary Classic product line. We would like to share the background story of how these powerful solid state amplifiers became a part of Cary Audio Design. Greetings to all of you! I would like to tell you the story on how the mono bloc solid state power amplifiers called the 500 MB came about. The 500 MB’s are a pair of discrete, true balanced 500 watt amplifiers. In fact, these music powerhouses will yield 1,000 watts at a 4 ohm load. What, solid state from the triode tube crazed Dennis Had, some may ask? If someone had asked me 16 years ago when I started Cary Audio, ‘Are you going to build high power transistor amplifiers?’ My response would have been almost in the form of a lecture about how high power amplifiers corrupt. If the first watt is no good than why would you want 499 more of them? Oh, the self-righteous 'tube-o-phile' in me would have kept you listening all night to my design philosophies. Well, if I may, I would like to explain how this high power craze came about. Or how I became corrupted by high current, wide bandwidth, SOLID STATE power amplifiers... About six years ago, Gregg Dunn, our Cary Audio sales manager joined the company. Although he loved tubes in audio he felt we needed to seriously enter the home theater market place. Gregg convinced Billy and I that with our reputation for having the best sounding two channel tube gear, we could design and become the best in multi-channel solid state amplifiers. Within about six months I completed the CAD 500T, a five channel Cary Cinema amplifier. It weighed in at 168 pounds, measured over two and a half feet deep and contained five individual monster EI core power transformers. The CAD 500T was constructed of all machined aluminum. The June 1999 issue of Home Theater Magazine featured our new monster amp on the front cover along with a glowing review. We were in the home theater arena. Well, not exactly, the amplifier was sooo heavy, sooo large and expensive (30” x 19” x 14”, $8,000) no one wanted to lift it. We sold a couple dozen and I was back to the drawing board. Two years later I completed the sleek, slimmed down, five channel Cinema 5 power amplifier. The Cinema 5 became the lead product of our new Cary Cinema line of products. We received both a 2003 Editor’s Choice award from The Absolute Sound magazine and a Multi-channel Amplifier of the Year Award from The Perfect Vision magazine! It repeated as a Best Buy Award from both of those prestigious magazines in 2004 and has repeated for 2005! The Cinema 5 continues to receive product of the year awards around the world. It is now the reference multi-channel power amplifier for Peter Moncrieff of Wide Screen Review magazine and it unseated a very famous foreign made $11,000 multi-channel power amplifier in the process. Did we mention that the CINEMA 5 is made in North Carolina? Next came the seven by 100 watts per channel model Cinema 7 power amplifier. We have just won the Home Theater magazine, 2005 Rave Award for the Best Amplifier (Cinema 7) under $3000. The enthusiast press and the customers are all singing the sonic merits of the Cary Audio Design solid state amplifiers. It was time for some SERIOUS two channel stereo action with this design. Once again, Gregg came to me with an idea. I can still hear him.... “High power, full bandwidth and low distortion in a mono amp package”. He had this wild look in his eye as he insisted that we needed a 500 watt mono amplifier. Oh, it also had to play at 1,000 watts into 4 ohms. Since Gregg has had some serious home run ideas in the past, I thought OK, let me do some basic design work. Soon the design work turned into a personal passion: An intense desire on my part to produce absolute sonic excellence in the listening qualities and load handling capabilities of this high power, solid state power amplifier. SPECIFICATIONS ___________________________________________________ This section describes the basic specifications of the Cinema 1 at the time of printing. Specifications are subject to change without notice or obligation. When the following cautionary terms are used in this manual, these definitions apply: WARNING Electrical hazard! Misuse or failure to follow instructions properly may result in personal injury or death! CAUTION No risk or personal injury; however, misuse or failure to follow instructions may result in damage to equipment. NOTE No risk of personal injury or equipment damage; however, misuse or failure to follow instructions may prevent proper performance of the equipment. ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ RATED POWER OUTPUT 500 watts @ 8 ohms 1,000 watts @ 4 ohms, Class A/B ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ DAMPING FACTOR >100 @ 8 ohms ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ PEAK CURRENT 70 amps for Cinema 1 ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ FREQUENCY RESPONSE 10 to 50 kHz +/-0.1 dB -3 dB @ 200 kHz ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ INPUTPOWERREQUIREMENTS 117VAC50/60Hzor234VAC50/60Hz,bymarket ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ POWER CONSUMPTION 255 watts – Idling with no signal input 1200 watts 8-ohm load - full power ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ INPUT IMPEDANCE 44k ohms - Single-ended RCA inputs 91k ohms - Balanced XLR inputs ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ OUTPUT IMPEDANCE 4 to 16 ohms rated speaker impedance ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ GAIN 27 dB ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ THD < 0.05 %, 20 Hz-20 kHz ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ NOISE > 100 dB below rated output, A-weighted ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ SENSITIVITY 1.42 Volts for full output 6 ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ POWER SUPPLY CAPACITORS 4 - 33,000 ?FD @ 80 Volts ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ POWER TRANSFORMERS 1 – Toroidal, 200% duty cycle ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ BREAK-IN PERIOD 100 hours of music playing time ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ FINISH Textured black chassis with silver anodized aluminum faceplate Standard. (black faceplate optional) ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ AC CORD 3 conductor shielded, Detachable ................................................................................................................................................................................................... DIMENSIONS 6.25” H x 17.7” W x 19” D Allow 2” Depth for speaker binding post clearance ................................................................................................................................................................................................... WEIGHT 48 lbs. (21.8 kg) .................................................................................................................................................................
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