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Ayre

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AX-7e Integrated Amp   Click for Price
   
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About Ayre

“The limitations of recorded media disappear, and the restorative power of music and cinema becomes a part of daily life.”
-- Charles Hansen, Founder and Designer

Discover Ayre and lose yourself in the moment … intimately experiencing music and cinema that is perfectly timed and naturally alive.
Ayre Acoustics, Inc. has been designing and building superior quality, award-winning audio and video equipment since 1993. Ayre is recognized as a world leader in the industry, and its full line of audio and video components sets new standards in innovation, design, and performance. We proudly offer the finest equipment for your listening and viewing pleasure.

Our mission is to create audio and video systems that provide a lifetime of excitement and discovery. Combining stunning realism with exceptional clarity, Ayre components offer a natural, relaxed presentation that draws you into your favorite music and films as never before. Ayre’s bold, unique design approach ensures superlative levels of performance. Every design detail is focused on a single aim--unprecedented musical and cinematic delight. All of our products employ Ayre’s exclusive fully balanced, zero-feedback circuitry, with special emphasis lavished on the power supply. The result is a new world of artistic insight and experience.

Fully balanced circuitry performs best.
Balanced circuitry is a special dual configuration that rejects noise and interference -- not only from external cables, but also from the AC power line itself. In an Ayre component even the signals from conventional sources are converted to the balanced format, resulting in vivid, lifelike performances, presented against an uncannily quiet background.

Zero feedback circuitry delivers completely natural performance.
Conventional designs use negative feedback to compare the output signal to the input signal, which introduces time-domain errors and other artifacts. In contrast, Ayre’s exclusive zero-feedback circuits are designed for intrinsically pure linearity, delivering performance that is coherent and natural.

The musical and cinematic experience begins at the power supply.
All audio and video circuits operate by modulating the power supply—the best performance demands the best power supplies. Ayre’s exclusive multi-stage power filtering, implemented with the strictest attention to detail, is the real-world foundation upon which Ayre builds new levels of audio and video realism. 

3-CES 2004 Show Report, The Audiophile Voice

Arnis Balgalvis
A marvelous-sounding room was set up by Ayre Acoustics, Inc. All the electronic equipment was Ayre’s own and was designed by Ayre’s main guy, Charles Hansen himself. This was a clear case where the whole was bigger and better than the sum of its parts.

The sound of the Ayre room was exceptional. And addictive. I did not want to leave this place of sonic bliss – I wanted to just stay there and continue to listen to this stunning presentation. It was Ayre who was responsible for me missing some of the other exhibits. But guess what – I’m not a bit annoyed.

Awards

 DX-7e DVD player
 2005 Editors Choice Award — Ultimate AV  
"The Ayre DX-7 was pristine. . . the DX-7 produced tight, tuneful bass and a fluid midrange replete with detail...The video tests didn't need to tell me what my eyes already knew..."

D-1x DVD/CD player
2004 Editors' Choice AwardThe Perfect Vision
"Ayre's D-1x is as stunning a 480p player as you're ever going to feast your eyes upon, and what's more, it's one of the very few DVD players that is a truly reference-quality CD player, holding its own against any dedicated CD player at any price."

V-6x multichannel amplifier 
2004 Editors' Choice Award — The Perfect Vision
"Ayre's V-6x is a classic example of a high-end company going to the movies and elevating the standard of performance in home theater."

DX-7 DVD player
2004 Editors' Choice Award — The Perfect Vision
"The Ayre's image is purer, more seamless, more 3-D, more palpable, and flat-out more convincing and involving than anything else out there, save Ayre's own D-1x."

DX-7 DVD player
2004 Golden Eye Award  — The Perfect Vision
"The DX-7 is the best DVI-output player I've yet seen... Once you've seen what it does, there'll be no going back."

 

Mark Levinson 326S "What I did become increasingly aware of during my time with the Levinson No.326S was the fact that "neutrality" is not merely an absence of aberration but a positive virtue. I could hear more deeply into the mix, but without detail being spotlit or unnaturally thrown forward. Subtle details were presented with greatercontrast against a quieter ground in all of these recordings: the reverberation tails that follow Joe Morello's kick drum highlights in his drum soloin "Take 5" from Dave Brubeck's Time Out (SACD, Sony 7464-65122-6)" - John Arkinson - Stereophile Jan 2006

After 6 months of testing John compared it to a host of other high end preamps and gave it a glowing recommendation saying that it offered all he wanted from a preamp.

Ayre Acoustics C-5xeMP Universal Disk Player "...but for the resolutely two-channel audiophile, the C-5xeMP represents one of the most seductive choices available today." - Paul Miller Apr 2007 HiFi News

Stereophile Extract: " I've heard a lot of impressive audio components over the years, but I've heard very few that afforded me greater musical pleasure or sent me on as many voyages of musical discovery through discs I thought I knew well." - Wes Phillips, July, 2005

Gryphon Diablo The ultimate reference integrated amplifier, pure music at its best.

The Diablo sounded just beautiful in my system. It was also perfect in operation, with some unique features -- such as that wonderful touch-panel faceplate. All of this makes for an easy and hearty recommendation. It may or may not be built by wizards in some far-off land, but the Gryphon Diablo is a real product that any audiophile who seeks magic from his audio system should fully explore.’
Jeff Fritz, Soundstage

Brinkmann LaGrange turntableThe Brinkmann LaGrange turntable is without a doubt the best source component I have ever had the chance to enjoy over an extended period of time. It represents a level of perfection and emotional connection to music that I have never heard before. - Danny Kaey extract from Positive Feedback

Teac Esoteric DV-60Stereophile Class A+ Rated Universal Player gets an Upgrade!
Dave Robinson, the editor in chief at www.positive-feedback.com  wrote..." "Blow me down!" said Popeye—and so do I about the Teac Esoteric DV-60. Over the past year, I've lived with this superb universal player, and have gotten to try it with just about everything you could feed it on an optical disc. It has been flawless in operation, is impeccable in ergonomics and fittings, and is glorious for both video and audio playback.

Gryphon PoseidonThere are Loudspeakers and then there is the Gryphon Poseidon, In our opinion the best loudspeaker system in the world bar none.

I could say the Poseidon's are awesome and amazing, but more than that they are truly majestic and magical. So often the quality of a product is overstated by reviewers in order to make a magazine review seem more interesting. It would be most difficult to overstate the sonic abilities of the Poseidon.

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