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| Integrated amp: Component weight +1 to many suggestions for Ayre EX-8 v2. I have this with the streamer/dac cards installed and it is ~24lb one-box solution that does streaming, DAC, preamp, and amp. It sounds fantastic with my Sonus Faber speakers. | |
| Not enough outlets @artemus_5 Issue is that the plug needs to go behind a shelf and a straight plug would require me to move the shelf an additional couple of inches into the room which I prefer not to do. I'm going with a high quality power strip and will repor... | |
| Not enough outlets Thanks a lot for all the advice. I'm going with a high quality powerstrip as suggested by several; I'm picking one without any conditioning or surge protection: just something that minimally interferes with the power going through it, specificall... | |
| Not enough outlets Ah, I have the 90 degree plugs from AE and that is likely larger. | |
| Not enough outlets Do you mean that this may have a different spacing between the plugs? | |
| Effect of Internet Service Quality on Streaming? As an experiment you can put some FLAC or HiRes files on a USB stick and play from that during the times when you are getting worse quality. If that does not suffer from the quality issues you know it is likely not the power but is your connectio... | |
| Streaming upgrade from Cambridge Audio cxn v2 Thanks a lot for the input. I must say I'm surprised that many of you are suggesting an expensive streamer rather than a cheap streamer and an expensive dac: if the dac has a reasonable sized buffer, shouldn't it make up for the weakness in the s... | |
| Streaming upgrade from Cambridge Audio cxn v2 Thank you all so much for the suggestions. I'll definitely explore separates but the space considerations may make that difficult (but not impossible). Thanks also for the roon suggestion; I will do at least the trial and see if that helps. bli... | |
| What's your experience with snooty HiFi salesmen? Several have already mentioned Natural Sounds in Framingham; +1 to them. I was in town to visit family and had some time to kill. So I walked into the store and told them: I was from out of town and thus, it was highly unlikely that I would buy ... | |
| mcontrol: change in behavior? Thanks! I guess I thought this was new because: 1. Recently the mcontrol app has been consuming a lot of battery on my phone 2. When my phone receives a notification, it actually pauses the music for a moment on my Ayre So at least some beh... | |
| Best Mesh WiFi System I've had the Google wifi since it came out and it works wonderfully though my home and back yard. This has since been superseded by Nest Wifi which adds better range but no ethernet port on the nodes. I have 40+ devices (including music streamers... | |
| How hot does the Ayre EX-8 2.0 Integrated Amplifier get? I am doing two at the back and one in front. I doubt it makes any difference in the sound but it likely helps with cooling and lifts my amp up so that its IR sensor peeks out through the opening on my cabinet door (it has horizontal slats) which ... | |
| How hot does the Ayre EX-8 2.0 Integrated Amplifier get? My EX-8 is also in a cabinet with the back completely shut and the door with wood slats (so ~50% open). I use the Myrtle blocks.Before the v 2.0 update, the back part of the amp would get up to 107F (this was a strip at the back bottom); the rest... | |
| What Does Ayre Sound Like? I have the ayre ex-8 and love it. I got my ex-8 upgraded to 2.0 and since that upgrade I do not feel that the base is lean anymore (but did feel that it was lean before the upgrade). | |
| Spectral or Ayre (combo) I have two Ayre amps and they both sound wonderful. While that alone is enough to consider Ayre, there is much more. The people at Ayre are great and respond quickly to any and all questions. Their philosophy for offering upgrades is also incredi... |