Integrateds: Luxman vs. Ayre?

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Yes, I have, and while I do like the sound it's also IMHO kind of unique. so much so that I feel it's an amplifier that I might really like but not sure you would. 

What a difference two years make!!  I still love the sound of my Luxman but am also going with fully active speakers in the near future. 

Based on more reading it doesn't seem like the DAC in the Ayre integrated is as robust as the one's in the standalone products or other devices. 

I have to take some exception to describing Luxman as sparkling. 

I find it equally extended at the top and bottom of the range.  It may make a Parasound sound thick and overly warm by comparison, but it it snot harsh or extra colorfuil there IMHO, unlike say a Mc.

By comparison to Ayre and Parasound it may sound cooler, but I don't think of it as a color saturated integrated.

I don’t find Ayre necessarily neutral. It has it’s own ... almost noise cancelling ... signature. It’s hard to explain it. Maybe the imaging is superior and lets you hear more into the recording as if it ignores the room?

I can’t really describe it... but I find it’s audibly different. 

Maybe it's excessively quiet?  I'm afraid words really kind of fail me to encapsulate what I've heard in the past.