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Awards

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."

2003 Recommended Products Editor's Choice -- The Absolute Sound
"It offers an incredible combination of musicality and resolution. ...the V-6x adds low-end weight and extension, making the entire musical picture richer and more engaging and involving."

2003 Golden Eye Award -- The Perfect Vision
"The V-6x is first and foremost a terrific amplifier for playing back music, and the traits that make it so--dead-quiet background, dynamic snap and authority, razor-sharp focus, remarkable dimensionality and imaging--make the V-6x a great home theater amp. Its natural depth and musical accuracy translate to movie sound that's startlingly realistic, with exceptional inner detail and resolution and images that focus in a full 360-degree space around the listener."

Review Links

The Perfect Vision V-6x	by: Shane Buettner	9-01-2003
"The Ayre V-6x is an amplifier I can (and do) recommend without reservation. The V-6x simply lets you have it all."
Home Theater V-6x	by: Steve Guttenberg	12-01-2001
"Great audio transcends itself. The best ones, like the Ayre V-6x, can breathe life into the sound. This extraordinary amp just about hard-wires your ears and brain to music and soundtracks. You really have to hear it for yourself."

Features

• Modular Design / Up to 6 channels available
• Zero Feedback, fully balanced discrete circuitry 
• 16 High-Power Devices per Channel / FET input stage
• Ayre Conditioner (patent pending) Power-Line RFI Filter
• Sophisticated DC Protection Circuit
• Remote "trigger" operation
  
  

Specifications

Power Output
150 watts per channel continuous into 8 ohms
300 watts per channel continuous into 4 ohms

Gain
26 dB

Input Impedance
100 kohm (per phase)

Frequency Response
DC - 200 kHz

Power Consumption
10 watts in standby mode
50 watts per installed channel in operating mode, no signal

Dimensions
18"W x 19"D x 7"H
(45.7cm x 48cm x 18cm)

* Also available in rack mount width
17.5" (44.5cm)

Weight
80 pounds (36 kg)
plus 6 pounds (2.5 kg) per installed channel

 

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