RMAF 2011 Coverage

Ayre Acoustics demonstrated its line of components with Vienna Acoustics ‘The Kiss’ loudspeakers ($15,000/pair). As you can tell, it was a georgeous day outside, sunny and bright. What were we doing going from room to room in a hotel?

That is the Ayre VX-R stereo amplifier ($14,950), first introduced earlier this year at CES, powering the speakers. It’s a pair of MX-R monoblocks ($18,000/pair) in a single chassis.

Here’s what it looks like from the bottom up - it’s dual mono in every sense except the chassis.

Vinyl playback was via a Ayre DPS (der Plattenspieler) turntable based upon a Bauer chassis and Ayre designed power supply with a dps tonearm (together, $12,750). Ayre’s own P-5xe phonostage ($2500) provided the necessary gain for the Benz LP S-Class cartridge ($5000).

The preamplifier was Ayre’s reference KX-R ($18,500).

The preamplifier shows that Ayre’s DX-5 universal Blu-ray player with USB input ($9950) was selected, but it was inaccessible for me to photograph.

This is Ayre’s latest product. It looks like the QB-9 USB DAC, but in fact is is the QA-9 ADC (analog to digital converter) ($TBA). Perfect for ripping your vinyl collection to digital format.

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89