Some reviews take longer to gestate than others. But in the case of Cary's CD 306 SACD Professional Version SACD/CD player, it has taken me literally years to get this review into print. I had visited Cary's impressive facility in North Carolina just before Christmas 2005, when I'd been playing the high-resolution master files of some of my recordings at an event being promoted by Raleigh high-end dealer Audio Advice. Cary's head honcho, <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/399">Dennis Had</A>, had been playing me music on a system featuring his Silver Oak loudspeakers, with the front-end one of the first samples of the original CD 306, playing discs through the two-chassis Cary SLP 05 preamplifier that Art Dudley <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/tubepreamps/906cary">ended up reviewing</A> in the September 2006 issue. "Now <I>that's</I> a product I'd like to review!" I enthused, looking inside the CD 306, and I drove back to Brooklyn with a review sample.

Some reviews take longer to gestate than others. But in the case of Cary's CD 306 SACD Professional Version SACD/CD player, it has taken me literally years to get this review into print. I had visited Cary's impressive facility in North Carolina just before Christmas 2005, when I'd been playing the high-resolution master files of some of my recordings at an event being promoted by Raleigh high-end dealer Audio Advice. Cary's head honcho, <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/399">Dennis Had</A>, had been playing me music on a system featuring his Silver Oak loudspeakers, with the front-end one of the first samples of the original CD 306, playing discs through the two-chassis Cary SLP 05 preamplifier that Art Dudley <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/tubepreamps/906cary">ended up reviewing</A> in the September 2006 issue. "Now <I>that's</I> a product I'd like to review!" I enthused, looking inside the CD 306, and I drove back to Brooklyn with a review sample.

<B>McCOY TYNER: <I>Guitars</I></b><BR>
McCoy Tyner, piano; Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, John Scofield, Derek Trucks, guitars; B&#233;la Fleck, banjo; Ron Carter, bass; Jack DeJohnette, drums<BR>
Half Note/McCoy Tyner Music 4537 (CD, DVD). 2008. John Snyder, prod.; Randy Funke, eng. DDD. TT: 74:16<BR>
Performance ****&#189;<BR>
Sonics ****&#189;

We played Scrabble and listened to Brian Eno's Another Green World. The synthesizers were raw, saw-toothed, and gripping, and Eno's volume swells had never been truly appreciated till that night.

Even though he's heard me play the record about a million times, Kyle kept asking, "Who is this playing?"

I think it caught him by surprise this time around.