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Ok folks, as promised at CanJam SoCal 2015, we are very happy to announce that our new fully-discrete, fully-balanced, transportable headphone amp - the Cavalli Audio Liquid Carbon - will soon be available for purchase!
In keeping with our promise of wanting to offer this no-compromise amplifier at a substantially-discounted price, we are releasing the first (and possibly only) batch of Liquid Carbon amplifiers for $599 USD.
To keep this opportunity fair for everyone in the community, this limited production run of 500 amps will be made available to everyone beginning at High Noon (12:00p), Texas Time (CDT), on Tuesday, April 14th, 2015.
That will be the time when anyone (and everyone) can place orders. There are no reserved spots for reviewers or VIPs. It will be first-come, first-served to any and all in the community. That's why we're announcing the opening of orders, so that everyone is aware beforehand.
If there are future runs, we will probably have to adjust price to better reflect cost. It's possible that this could be in the range of $799, although this decision is reserved for later. Right now the focus will be on getting this run out on time.
We'll begin production as soon as possible after the first 200 orders have been received, and expect the first units to begin shipping approximately 4 months later.
Thanks, very much for everyone's interest in our new amp.
Alex Cavalli,
Cavalli Audio
Liquid Carbon Updates Starting 9/7/15
OK everyone, here’s our latest update. There is good news and not so good news.
The good news is that everything is moving along and things are coming together. Here’s a photo of the first production board in the standard CA black style. This amp came up perfectly and sounds exactly like a Liquid Carbon. New volume pots are in hand and so the boards are in good shape.
As you all know, most of my production runs on the high end amps are fairly small. For the Carbon run it was necessary to engage an entirely different set of suppliers and fabricators who are more accustomed to these volume levels. These suppliers are doing a good job, but the completion timing of various pieces is taking longer than expected. There isn’t much we can do now except to wait until we get these pieces.
So, now for the not-so-good news. Based on latest info and delivery times, I expect that we are going to see amps begin to ship in early November. I know that this is now more wait, but with latest info I want to be as accurate as I can be.
During this extra wait, however, we’ll be posting pics and info on the work in progress. This way you’ll be able to see what’s happening. The board photo is the first of these.
I know that many of you have been waiting eagerly for ship dates and I’m not too happy about this either. But, there are more vendors involved in this build, with one overseas. This has resulted unexpected late changes in the scheduling.
Thanks for your patience. Amps will be made…..
Look for more updates here.
Update 9/15/2015
The machine shop has been busy. Here are some shots of the front panel. It's machined out of a chunk of aluminum and very nicely done.
Here's the plain panel:
Another view:
And with a production board sticking through:
Very good progress now. Back panel is made in the same way.
Update 10/14/2015
Hello folks. Looks like we are still on target to start shipping in early November. Maybe not the very first week, but in first half.
The production team has been pretty agile to reconfigure itself to do some overlapping work.
Keep in mind that though we will begin shipping and go as fast as we can, we can't get all the amps shipped in a few days or even a week. It will probably take 3-4 weeks to get them all out. We intend to get all orders delivered well before the end of the year.
Because so much time has passed, a number of you have changed shipping addresses. Many of you have contacted us with new addresses and we have taken all of this down. But, to be sure your address is still accurate we will likely be sending out emails ahead of time to the email address you gave us to confirm your shipping address. Please look for this email.
Also, for various reasons some of you have cancelled over the last several months. We are always happy to do a refund, but ... so that things don't get impossibly complicated at the last minute when we're trying to ship, we are going to cut off refunds starting November 1. If you want a refund please do so before then. This is simply a logistical issue between us and the folks who are actually doing the fulfillment.
Very happy to make this post. Keep your fingers crossed that nothing last minute appears.
Update 10/25/2015
Hello folks. I am slightly delayed making this update. Been working on getting out a lot of Crimson amps.
Some of you have already received emails verifying your shipping info. Most of you have replied, but not all.
For those of you who haven't heard anything this is because you're not in the first batch of amps. We expect amps to ship out over several weeks, starting with about 150 of them. If you haven't got an email this is because you're not in the first batch. Emails should go out about 10-14 days before we expect to begin shipping.
Please note that we still expect to begin shipping about Nov 9, but not all the amps will go out on that day. We hope to do batches about every week until they are all shipped.
I'll let you know if anything changes...
Mod Edit: Corrected event name (CanJam SoCal 2015)
