Ayre 8 Series | High End 2019
Ayre (website) was one of the earliest to market with a good USB DAC. That’s how I remember seeing and interacting with them. The QB-9 did one thing (USB) and did that [...]
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FLORIDA 2019: House of Stereo, Wolf Audio Systems, TAD, Wireworld
House of Stereo brings retail sensibility to a small room, Wolf Audio Systems takes us back to the future, TAD (Technical Audio Devices) puts a fine point on detail, Ayre [...]
RMAF 2015: Merging Technologies and German Physiks gets my attention with digital
It’s not too often that I will raise an unkempt eyebrow over a digital rig. But as I stumbled about The Tower at RMAF (where I was sentenced like Quasimodo by Scot [...]
CanJam SoCal 2015, Part 3: Amplification
By Lee Shelly Schiit Audio The first stop I made (pre- show!), was to the Schiit booth. When I got there, Jason Stoddard was fighting with his flagship system … no [...]
CES 2015: Beyond Pono, Ayre still hot
I suppose that some of you, reading this, do in fact live under a rock or are otherwise sheltered from the world, and in so doing, have completely missed the hullabaloo [...]
RMAF 2014: DeVore Fidelity and the coming apocalypse
You are alone. Night is coming, quickly, like a wave leading the tide; it’s rolling forward now, from a horizon hidden by the line of trees. There are sounds. Dusk [...]
CAS 2014: Ayre and Marantz join 9′ of Sound Lab
I may have mentioned that Friday was a bit of a slog at this show. Equipment was cold, rooms were amusical, and sound was, in general, something less than fulfilling. The [...]
CAS 2013: Music Lovers presents Wilson, Aesthetix, AMG, Ayre, Shunyata
Music Lovers Audio debuted Wilson Audio‘s Duette Series 2 ($19,500), small stand-mount speakers designed specifically for tight spaces — they are designed to be [...]
CAS 2013: ENIGMAcoustics
ENIGMAcoustics was present to demonstrate not just their impressive Sopranino super tweeter, but their new Mythology M1 bookshelf speakers ($15,000/pair, including the [...]
CES 2013: Ayre
Last Fall, Ayre showed off their new AX-5 integrated amp in a room that, quite frankly, took my breath away. That gear showed up here, at CES, with a slight change — [...]
