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| Best interconnects for AYRE gear ? Paul: you are absolutely right. VD Master Series II and upwards are GREAT cables. I used the Revelation Signature IC´s and couldn´t be happier - until I bought Stealth Indra. The Cardas GR wasn´t very good with Ayre. I liked more the Acoustic Zen ... | |
| New Ayre MX-4 stereo power amp and new integrated Hvu: I would love to see a BIG Ayre integrated at least at the performance level of K-1xe + V-5xe. As the Boulder 865 wasn´t released right on time I´ve bought K-1xe and V-5xe (again) and I´m very happy with the gear as it matches well with the C-... | |
| Wadia 581 vs 27ix and 270 No. I tested GNSC 581 vs. 270 SE + 27ix V 3 -without mods. But if you consider the huge price difference between the GNSC modded 581 and the 270 SE + 27ix combo the combo is overprized. | |
| Wadia 581i Selection of CD or SACD As far as I remember using my 581 it selecets between cd and sacd on its own. Glad to hear your´s is working fine. My had severe problems from the first day on (that´s why I´ve sold it lately) - sound and buildquality of the case work is TOP notch... | |
| Wadia 581 vs 27ix and 270 If you take the 581 with the GNSC Ref. Level mods. it´s better than the 270 Se / 27ix combo. We did the comparison in a shoot-out and it was a clear vote. | |
| Kharma Mini or Avalon Eidolon diamond Ctchen: yes I can a bit as I´m half dutch. I´ve listened to the Avalon line very extensively when I was in the market for new speakers. I know about their qualities and their shortcomings. I know of two people who use Ayre CX-7e + Series 5 amplifi... | |
| Kharma Mini or Avalon Eidolon diamond Forget the Symbol´s - they´re crap. Avalon in my Opinion starts with Opus Ceramique. | |
| New Ayre MX-4 stereo power amp and new integrated Thanks Charles. Appreciate your input (as always). Will add additionally a ModWright LS 36.5 to my system to get the full tube flavour. The Cardas wood blocks are already in use as well as Stillpoints universal resonance dampers. Do you still reco... | |
| best preamp ever - cost is no object Me neither.. | |
| best preamp ever - cost is no object I´ve just inserted an Ayre K-1xe into my system and I must say - that you´ll have to spend very crazy money to top its performance significantly (so from a respective price point this might be the best value in solid state pre-amplification). Bett... | |
| New Ayre MX-4 stereo power amp and new integrated Charles: to be honest I can´t tell you on which side I saw the mistake. I remember a picture showing a silver coloured MR-X with an acrylic top stating underneath the picture "Inside view of the Ayre MX-4"). The pages I´ve screened for show-report... | |
| New Ayre MX-4 stereo power amp and new integrated Kurttank / Vinylmonkey: thanks for the info. In one of the show reports I stumbled over a pick showing an Ayre power amp titeled MX-4 which mated fine with the rumours I´ve heard at CES (a pitty that this info is wrong as I like the design of the ... | |
| best preamp ever - cost is no object Coming back to the initial question: Dynaudio Arbiter is a very very special pre-amp to. Made to order only, very expensive and very flexible. The afore mentionned ASR is a very nice product but funny wise its reputation in the US is much higher t... | |
| best preamp ever - cost is no object Mrtennis: sorry I have to disagree. There are some very special products that are in a legue of its own (soundwise, build quality wise, etc.). Especially the Boulder 2000 series products together with the big FM Acoustics and the DartZeel represen... | |
| Can any player challenge Audio Aero Prestige SE ? Audiooracle: you are heartly invited to our next shoout-out in May in Hamburg, Germany. I have to agree with some of your findings: AA players are top notch, with some reliability issues and a crap remote (as with most of the players, except Esote... |