Today I compared the Cary SLI-80 with much more expensive NAF Legend-II integrated amplifier equipped with the newly acquired NOS GEC KT-66 tubes and though they are not in the same league, jazz records (Coleman Hawkins, Nat King Cole, etc.) sound much better with Cary - more air and background focus, while the NAF excels in classics and has a better midrange. Apples and oranges...So Cary may stay for a while, though Melody is tempting...
