Interesting. Thanks for sharing your experience. Good to hear about Ayre customer service... great company. I have one of their DACs Also, interesting about the copy of the CD working. Good thing to know,
Unable to read an original cd
I have Ayre CX-7eMP cdp and I can say only superlatives about it. Couple of days ago I took one CD from my collection which, I think, never played on my Ayre. So, my cd player couldn't read that CD and prepare it for playback. Just to say, I've never had such a problem with any other CD. I tried another CD's randomly and they were okay. However I contacted Ayre's Service Manager and he replied immediatelly. Big plus for Ayre. He said that there are some CD's which are made out of tolerances regarding Redbook standard and cd players has different abilities to read such CD's. He said that cd mastering is all over the map now too. He suggested me, just to make sure there is nothing wrong with the laser and see what's goin' on, that I could make a CD-R copy of that CD and see if it plays. If it does, the original pressed CD is probably out of tolerance. If it does not, then that indicates a mastering issue. I made a CD-R copy and that copy plays without any problem by my Ayre.