Ayre MR-X monoblocks - how good are they??

Downunder,

Just this past Thursday I listened to a dealers set up with the Ayre MX-R monos paired with the Ayre K-1x preamplifier.

The Ayre equipment were driving the Reference Grand Veena 3As which are, according to Harry Pearson of TAS, "extremely revealing" of upstream components.
The dealer is well aware of this fact also, he knows the speaker and designers well.

I brought my own Lps, none of which are so labeled or called audiophile, just some exceptionally well recorded vintage Jazz and some great Rock.

Vocals were exceptional,nothing riding on top of them,human sounding and unprocessed. There was a very nice sense of natural sounding timbre with delicate microdynamics in acouple of tracks that I noticed.

Lots of air within the sound stage. And yes, the musicians and singers had a pulse.
This equipment can also play Rock exceptionally well also.

Over all what I heard that afternoon was impressive.
Though I'm shopping for speakers not electronics.

The Ayre equipment was no doubt a very good match for these speakers.
Also I felt they out classed many other solid state equipment I have heard over the last few months.

I have to throw this one in.
The Reference Grand Veena are a STUPID GOOD DEAL...my goodness.
I have to listen again, with a dealer recommended 845 base vacuum tube monos.

Downunder
I fully believe the components were thoroughly run in and properly matched up together.
Nothing was out of sorts.

What I heard with the Ayer gear and the entire system in general was system synergy carefully set up by a competent dealer.

At this point, you should listen for yourself.

Pinkus , It's really quite simple....

Usually what I do is bring along recorded music that I enjoy the most and music that I am most familiar with.

Knowing what this recorded music sounds like in my home, I use my memory of it as a bench mark.

Currently I am shopping for a new pair of speakers, so far in the past three weeks I have listened to nine contenders, most at the top end of my budget.

Two of the nine pairs that I have listened to will be crated up and delivered to my home for further listening.

The pair of speakers I mentioned above is one of them, and they sell for less then half of what my budget is.

This could very well be a classic case of ,you get what you pay for , but not always.

As for the Ayre equipment in that system,I give it high marks for musicality.