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Ayre CX-7e

CX-7e CD Player

No other CD player delivers music like the Ayre CX-7. Its sophisticated multi-stage digital filter allows the subtle sonic details in your favorite discs to shine through. An exclusive fully-balanced, zero-feedback analog circuit combines breathtaking transparency with beguiling musicality. The fundamental tones that provide music's foundation are meticulously rendered by the CX-7's twin massive power transformers -- one handles just the digital circuitry; the other the analog. The Ayre CX-7 is the source for your music.

Awards

2004 Recommended Products Editors Choice -- The Absolute Sound
"Highly Involving, the Ayre brings an unusual sense of rhythmic rightness to all music, with deep, defined bass, excellent dynamics, three-dimensionality, and tonal accuracy."

Recommended Components 2004 -- Stereophile
... JA concluded that Ayre's CX-7 integrated CD player "is a model of modern CD-playing design... [It] sounds as clean as it looks. Its balance is vibrant, its bass well-defined and deep, its highs clean, detailed, and well-resolved." He was impressed with the way the CX-7 preserved the "fragile sense of an acoustic around recorded instruments... Nothing sounded confused or obscured via the CX-7."

2003 S ource component of the year -- Enjoy the Music.com
"No multi-format player I have heard, even at twice the price, makes Redbook CD sound this wonderful. The CX-7 is most highly recommended, especially if you absolutely love music."

2003 Recommended Products Editors Choice -- The Absolute Sound
"Highly Involving, the Ayre brings an unusual sense of rhythmic rightness to all music, with deep, defined bass, excellent dynamics, three-dimensionality, and tonal accuracy."

2003 Product of the Year -- hi-fi +
"Chris Thomas was utterly seduced by its natural, unforced presentation and excellent soundstaging, concluding that even at this price it still represents something of a bargain."

Review Links

The Audiophile Voice CX-7 by: Arnis Balgalvis 9-01-2004

"Ayre's CX-7 CD player ranks as one of the most satisfying components I have ever experienced"

Enjoy the Music.com -- Best of 2003 CX-7 by: Steven R. Rochlin 1-01-2004

Source component of the year -- "If I had a budget of five or even ten thousand dollars for a digital front-end my choice would be to spend three thousand of it right here..."

The Absolute Sound CX-7 by: Sue Kraft 5-01-2003

"This is one of the most delightfully musical, involving, and well-balanced components I've auditioned in a long time."

Stereophile CX-7 by: John Atkinson 5-01-2003

"Ayre's CX-7 sounds as clean as it looks. Its balance is vibrant, its bass well-defined and deep, its highs clean, detailed, and well-resolved."

Enjoy the Music.Com CX-7 by: Todd Warnke 5-01-2003

"No multi-format player I have heard, even at twice the price, makes Redbook CD sound this wonderful. The CX-7 is most highly recommended, especially if you absolutely love music."

Features

Highly advanced multi-stage digital filter system. First filter"upsamples" to 176.4 kHz at 24 bits. Second filter "oversamples" to 1.4112 MHz at 24 bits.

Extremely linear segmented architecture D/A converter with differential current-output. Upper 6 bits are converted using a PCM architecture. Lower 18 bits are converted using a 5-level Sigma-Delta architecture operating at 11.2896 MHz.

Zero feedback, DC-coupled true differential balanced analog circuitry (single-ended outputs also included)

Optional metal remote features beautifully finished milled aluminum with five lighted buttons. For the ultimate in luxury and feel when controlling the CX-7 CD player.

Specifications

Frequency Response
DC - 20 kHz, +/- 0.25 dB
Signal/Noise
110 dB (unweighted)
Full Output
4.5 Volts balanced
2.25 Volts single-ended
Dimensions
17.25" W x 13.25" D x 4.75" H
(43.8cm x 33.7cm x 12cm)
Weight
25 pounds (11.5 kg)

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Ayre Acoustics C-5xe Universal Disk Player Stereophile Extract: "It ought to be fairly obvious that I found the Ayre C-5xe more than satisfactory. I didn't expect it to disappoint, but I was unprepared for just how much it delighted me. 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

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Awards

The Audiophile Voice CX-7	by: Arnis Balgalvis	9-01-2004
"Ayre's CX-7 CD player ranks as one of the most satisfying components I have ever experienced"

Enjoy the Music.com -- Best of 2003 CX-7	by: Steven R. Rochlin	1-01-2004
Source component of the year -- "If I had a budget of five or even ten thousand dollars for a digital front-end my choice would be to spend three thousand of it right here..."

The Absolute Sound CX-7	by: Sue Kraft	5-01-2003
"This is one of the most delightfully musical, involving, and well-balanced components I've auditioned in a long time."

Stereophile CX-7	by: John Atkinson	5-01-2003
"Ayre's CX-7 sounds as clean as it looks. Its balance is vibrant, its bass well-defined and deep, its highs clean, detailed, and well-resolved."

Enjoy the Music.Com CX-7	by: Todd Warnke	5-01-2003
"No multi-format player I have heard, even at twice the price, makes Redbook CD sound this wonderful. The CX-7 is most highly recommended, especially if you absolutely love music."

Mark Levinson 326S Baby version of the Ref 32 Pre-amp at a reasonable cost of £6,995. Like most technologies the benefits of the research for the reference products trickle down into more affordable products like the 326s Pre-amp. You get alot of the quality of its bigger brother, providing a jump in the quality available at this price.	Ayre Acoustics C-5xe Universal Disk Player Stereophile Extract: "It ought to be fairly obvious that I found the Ayre C-5xe more than satisfactory. I didn't expect it to disappoint, but I was unprepared for just how much it delighted me. 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 at £6100. The Gryphon sonic magic in a reasonable sized and georgeous case, you must hear this as it puts most pre power combo's to shame, pure music at its best.	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-50SThe Esoteric DV-50 is the most fun you can have with digital music playback short of the dCS trio reviewed by Michael Fremer in April 2003 (Vol.26 No.4). Given that the dCS gear costs about six times as much as the DV-50, the Esoteric is a screaming bargain, especially considering its hyper-advanced technology, bulletproof build, and exceptional sound. You can even play movies on it. - Stereophile Extract	ProAc D100 The imposing new Response D100 takes on the mantle of flagship model from our legendary Response Four, which has delighted discerning audiophiles for the last twelve years. The D100's produce stunning music, effortlessly. The enhanced sensitivity extracts the tiniest detail from any recording without brightness or exaggeration. Greater bandwidth creates a huge soundstage, drawing in the listener and creating a concert hall experience, where the loudspeakers seem to melt from the scene..