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| New Ayre MX-4 stereo power amp and new integrated The Cardas Golden Reference cables are great cables. And for the past few years we have also been making our own interconnects (manufactured by Cardas to our specifications), that are especially designed to work well with our equipment.But as alwa... | |
| New Ayre MX-4 stereo power amp and new integrated Frank,Be sure that the AC power cords are the correct polarity. (This happens automatically with US cords, but the Schuko cords can be inserted with either polarity.) Use wood blocks under all of your components. Use wood blocks to keep all of you... | |
| New Ayre MX-4 stereo power amp and new integrated -- The KX-R is in the early planning stages. If all goes well, it will be shipping by late summer. If things don't go smoothly, it could be the fall before it is shipping. We don't know the price yet, but it is safe to say that it will be signific... | |
| Ayre C-5xe vs. Ayre D-1xe "Furthermore I´ve learned that Ayre is cutting off their european distribution net work - is the company going to close?"Um, not exactly.It's true that we've parted ways with our previous distributor in Germany, Active Audio. (They also serviced A... | |
| Ayre CX7e vs. Meridain G08 Based on my own brief measurements using the Audio Precision 2722 analyzer (this is a $27,000 piece of test equipment with an FFT noise floor at almost -140 dB), I think that this particular test protocol is flawed. I suspect that for well-designe... | |
| Ayre CX7e vs. Meridain G08 Hello Zaikesman,Sorry you choose not to believe me. Here is proof of what I am talking about:Go to the bottom of Stereophile's review of the dCS Verona master clock:http://stereophile.com/digitalprocessors/305dcs/index4.htmland you will see the fo... | |
| Ayre CX7e vs. Meridain G08 Bigtee -I have noticed the same phenomenon you have -- increasing levels of jitter over the years in the Stereophile test reports. JA made an oblique reference to this in one or two of the testing sidebars -- something to the effect that you can't... | |
| Ayre models in black Sparkyy raises several different questions:1) We do not publish an e-mail address as it is a very inefficient way to communicate. Please call instead.2) I'm a bit puzzled that you called "at least 50 times with no answer". Michael Wiedmaier is our... | |
| Ayre K-5xe / tube preamp s comparisons? Russell,Don't pull your hair out. We have a fix for the sensitivity to hum on the V-5(xe). Please refer to:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1141898495&openfrom&15&4#15Charles Hansen | |
| Ayre / Aesthetix hum problems? The "e" upgrade improves the sound quality of the K-5x noticeably. Whether or not this will result in sound that you like is only something you can say. As always, the best way to know is to try it for yourself in your own system.In another post y... | |
| Ayre / Aesthetix hum problems? Just to clarify, in the past there was a possibility of hum when using the Ayre V-5xe with the Aesthetix Saturn series (Calyspso and Janus) preamps and also certain other single-ended preamps. It took us a while to track this down as it depended o... | |
| Different power supplies Ayre CX-7 -important? the ones for Europe have 230 Volt transformers that operate at 50 Hz, and the ones for the US have 120 volt transformers that operate at 60 Hz. I'm tempted to say that the differences are (ahem) *shocking*.Cheeers,Charles Hansen |