Carry on streaming with Cary Audio’s high-spec, high-performance Hi-Fi amp

A lifestyle photo of the Cary DMS-300A atop a brown chest of drawers with a model boat next to it

(Image credit: Cary Audio)

published 24 July 2025

Quick Summary

The Cary Audio DMS-300A is a powerful two-channel amp with support for Qobuz Connect, TIDAL Connect and Spotify Connect. It's also Roon Ready.

Priced at $5,995 in the States, it's certainly in the high-end category for streamers.

Cary Audio, the boutique US audiophile brand, has launched a high quality integrated amp that promises to deliver the best of both worlds: smooth streaming and high-performance amplification.

The Cary DMS-300A is. capable of streaming Hi-Res Audio through the likes of Qobuz Connect, TIDAL Connect and Spotify Connect. It also has AirPlay and Bluetooth support.

The amp is Roon Ready and UPnP/DLNA compatible too, and it has both Wi-Fi and Ethernet connectivity.

Front and back view of the Cary DMS-300A in black on a white background

Cary Audio DMS-300A: key features and pricing

The design of the DMS-300A clearly prioritises function over flash: it's not far from an 80s VHS deck in design, especially in its silver incarnation. However, you don't buy an amp like this to look at it – it's likely to end up in an AV cabinet anyway, and it's the power inside that really counts.

The DMS-300A has a discrete Class A/B amplifier delivering 2 x 75W into 8 ohms and 2 x 125W into 4 ohms. In addition to the obligatory RCA connections, there are three USB-A inputs and an SD card slot, coaxial and Toslink and a 12V trigger output.

The Wi-Fi is 802.11b/g/n and the Bluetooth module supports aptX HD.

Digital format support is extensive, with 16 to 32-bit PCM and 1-bit DSD. PCM support is up to 384kHz and DSD goes to 22.5792MHz.

There are two colour options, black or silver, and the US price is $5,995.

UK and European pricing and availability are yet to be announced, but I'd expect similar pricing in the UK. For example, the Cary DMS-700 network audio player launched at $8,495 for US retail customers and is currently £8,590 in the UK.

Writer, musician and broadcaster Carrie Marshall has been covering technology since 1998 and is particularly interested in how tech can help us live our best lives. Her CV is a who’s who of magazines, newspapers, websites and radio programmes ranging from T3, Techradar and MacFormat to the BBC, Sunday Post and People’s Friend. Carrie has written more than a dozen books, ghost-wrote two more and co-wrote seven more books and a Radio 2 documentary series; her memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was shortlisted for the British Book Awards. When she’s not scribbling, Carrie is the singer in Glaswegian rock band Unquiet Mind (unquietmindmusic).

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