Reliability of Cary Audio Products


I'm considering adding a second (all tube) system for my home office. Amongst the integrated amps that are being considered is the Cary SLI 80. A friend, who is also a long term retailer of audio products, suggested that Cary has a poor reliability record. He hasn't sold Cary for a long while, and from what I've read on Audiogon, he may be out of touch with Cary products. Comments from Cary owners would be appreciated.

John
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My Cary purchases have been plagued with problems..  I won’t buy a Cary audio anything ever again. I won’t even go into the amp issues I had years ago.. I’m currently on my 4th Cary 306 SACD player.. Every one of them had issues.. skipping, pops, drawer mechanism.. They would send me back the unit and it would be damaged cosmetically as well as internally.. I even drove up there myself a few times to deliver or pickup my player from service.. I hate this damn player..  but it’s one of the best sounding players I ever owned. I use it as my DAC currently and I don’t care about the CD player.. 
in my experiences with Cary, they never seem to follow through and get the product reliable before they start working on the next project..