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AYON AUDIO is an Austrian audio manufacturer, founded over 30 years ago, whose boss and chief designer is GERHARD HIRT. The company’s lineup includes a number of tube devices – amplifiers, preamplifiers, CD and file players, DACs, but also high-end loudspeakers. Most of them are high-end components, some are more…
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Ayon Audio CD-35 II HF Edition Ascender – No 200 Text & Photos: Wojciech Pacula – December 1, 2020 WHY ARE WE AND WHY So 200. “High Fidelity” edition [“HIGH FIDELITY” number, which has just hit your hands, is 200. Since the magazine appears on a monthly basis – HF…
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Enjoy The Music Magazine Ayon Triton EVO Legendary Performance Award Pure Class A – Pentode Triode Operation
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Enjoy The Music Magazine Ayon Triton P/A Stereo Amp Legendary Performance Award Pure Class A – Pentode Triode Operation
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Ayon Audio CD-10 II : Stereoplay – Germany, March 2020 Outstanding value at any price! Awarded the Stereoplay Highlight logo. Click here to read more (in German)
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Ayon BlackRaven Fidelity Review Germany (English & German Version) – April 2020, Germany Click here to read English Version Click here to read German Version
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Ayon Audio CD-10 II CD Player By: Hifi-Advice’s Christiaan Punter 27 March 2020 Click Here to read review
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Ayon Audio S-10 II Network Player Streamer February 2020, HiFi-Statement, Germany, by Mr. Rolan Dietl (German Version) Click here to read German version Click here to read English version
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Ayon Epsilon Evo Mono Amplifier High Fidelity Review 2-1-2020 / Issue #189 By: Wojciech Pacuta Click Here To Read Review
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Ayon Scorpio XS Integrated Amplifer High Fidelity Review December 2019 By: Wojciech Pacuta Click Here To Read Review
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Ayon Audio Spirit V Review by Wojciech Pacuta July 1, 2019 WORLD PREMIERE GERHARD HIRT knows the audio world like the back of his own hand. He works with many well-known technology companies, is the owner of a part of the former TESLA…
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Ayon Audio & Lumenwhite – T.H.E. Show 2019 Neil Gader’s Highlights from Long Beach Show by Neil Gader | Jun 20th, 2019 Southern California has an audio show problem. It’s not new, and it’s not clear why. Perhaps it’s the slow-burn of internecine rivalries, sketchy venue selection and promotion (remember…
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T.H.E. Show 2019: Ayon Audio, Lumenwhite and the (valve) Glass Menagerie Rafe Arnott | Jun 15, 2019 “Strange things are afoot at the Cirlce-K.” – Ted, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure A relatable quote if you’ve ever been to a hi-fi trade show and tried to make sense of hundreds of rooms full…
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T.H.E. Show 2019 – Ayon Epsilon Gen 4, Auris and S-10, LumenWhite Kyara Speakers, and BBS Racks Jason Victor Serinus – June 12, 2019 I visited three large rooms on the second floor, and all of them suffered from soft, moveable air walls whose porous surfaces and interior…
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Ayon Audio, LumenWhite HIGH END Munich 2019 Show Report By Steven R. Rochlin “Best Sound Cost No Object” Award! Just as during their debut at AXPONA 2019, Ayon Audio had their sweet looking pure Class A Epsilon Evo Mono vacuum tube amplifiers (€20,000) here at HIGH END 2019. A nice…
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Ayon Audio & Lumen White – Show picture (retrospective) Demo System: Ayon – BlackCraneAyon – EpsilonAyon – Conquistador / LinestageAyon – Spheris PhonostageAyon – S10 SignatureAyon – CD35 HFTransrotor -TurntableSiltech – Cables Acoustic elements & room treatment by Sonitus
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Positive Feedback 2018 Writers’ Choice Award – Ayon Audio Ayon Titan EVO Monoblock Tube Amplifiers Price $57,000 per pair The 15th Annual Positive Feedback Writers’ Choice Awards for 2018 11-20-2018 | By Editors at Positive Feedback | Issue 100 Gary Lea Ayon Titan EVO Monoblock Tube Amplifiers Price $57,000 per pair During my…
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RMAF 2018 Show Report – The Absolute Sound Ayon Audio Lumenwhite Electronics $15k and Up By Julie Mullins | Nov 01st, 2018 Most Significant New Products ! A pair of the Ayon Audio Epsilon Gen 4 monoblock amplifiers ($18,000/pr.), one of which is pictured below, were introduced in a system with an Ayon…
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RMAF 2018: Must See Rooms of Friday – Ayon Audio Lumenwhite Posted on October 6, 2018 by Eric Franklin Shhok in RMAF, RMAF 2018 There are over 400 brands exhibiting here at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. Making this event one of largest audio shows in North America. For some this can seem…
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Ayon Audio Lumenwhite Awarded ” Best Sound” & Audio Oasis Award! Axpona High End Audio Show – Chicago, Illinois 2018 April 13 – 15, 2018 Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center – Schaumburg, IL World Class Ayon Audio Austria & Lumenwhite at the AXPONA High End Audio Show 2018 – Come…
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AXPONA 2018 Show Report – Ayon Audio Lumenwhite My Top Room for Sound Positive Feedback 04-20-2018 | By Robert S. Youman | Issue 97 AXPONA 2018 was an absolute delight. More head count. More smiling faces. More listening rooms. Friendly hosts. Friendly patrons. It wasn’t the shoulder to shoulder crush of…
READ MOREAyon Audio – Made in Austria Ayon Audio, world class manufacturer of high performance – vacuum tube audio products for over 30 years! “The Bugatti of Audio” Award – The Absolute Sound “Best Sound” Cost No Object Award Winner, year after year, High End Audio Show Winner RMAF Denver, The…
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Ayon Audio CD-35 HF: BEST PRODUCT 2017 – High Fidelity.pl – Poland Ayon Audio CD-35 HF (HIGH FIDELITY EDITION) TEST: No. 164 | December 2017 Award: GOLD Fingerprint The point of reference for this player were analogue master tapes. Although every second manufacturer declares that they strive to find out…
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Best of the Best Award 2017: Ayon Audio CD-35 LumenWhite – High Fidelity Ayon Audio CD-35 Best of the Best Award The SPECIAL AWARD category is some kind of “Best of the Best”, but, apart from sound, we also take into account the given idea, people engaged in the project…
READ MORE The SPECIAL AWARD category is some kind of “Best of the Best”, but, apart from sound, we also take into account the given idea, people engaged in the project and the influence of the product on the audio world. This year, we have awarded two companies: Ayon Audio and Verictum…
READ MORE Ayon Audio CD-35 HF (HIGH FIDELITY EDITION)TEST: No. 164 | December 2017Award: GOLD Fingerprint The point of reference for this player were analogue master tapes. Although every second manufacturer declares that they strive to find out the musical truth in this way, I happen to know that this is not…
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Best Sound of the Show – Warsaw, Nov. 2017 “The setups made by Gerhard Hirt, Ayon Audio founder, surprise us each year. This time we were sitting under the artificial ceiling made of dozens acoustic modules. And another ones placed at the sides. (…) Last tweaks were done literally before…
READ MORE Ayon Audio Awards (some of 2017) Steven R. Rochlin of Enjoy The Music – ” Best Sound” Ayon Lumenwhite – RMAF High End Audio Show 2017 Denver, CO. Ayon Audio and Lumenwhite keep getting Best Of Sound at shows from not just us, but from other mags too and so…
READ MORE Ayon Audio: Best Sound of the Show – Warsaw, Nov. 2017 “The setups made by Gerhard Hirt, Ayon Audio founder, surprise us each year. This time we were sitting under the artificial ceiling made of dozens acoustic modules. And another ones placed at the sides. (…) Last tweaks were…
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Ayon CD-35 HF Best Product of 2017 Whipped up by the great success of the CD-35 we got more and more requests to launch a special and limited Version of the CD-35, quasi a “digital” machine that should as “analogue” as never before. All music lovers engaged in top…
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Los Angeles Audio Show 2017 Report LAAS 2017 Show Report “Best Sound” Cost No Object – Ayon Audio, Lumen White LAAS 2017 High-End Audio Show Report Wait what the??? Ayon Audio is a normal room? After many years of attending shows you simply get kinda sorta useta who’s room is…
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Some review quotes: English Translation Also in the HA-3 and practically unchanged you find again Ayon’s tonal philosophy already known from the big powerful triode amps. This includes a dry, acutely firm, and voluminous bass-fundament, that also here became unmistakably manifest with the rather slimly “predisposed” Sennheiser HD800. Impact and…
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Ayon CD-35 CD Player The Ayon CD-35 establishes a new benchmark in SE-Triode vacuum-tube CD/SACD-Player performance by combining a fully balanced PCM-DSD DAC. The CD-35 is also prepared for computer playback and general DSD professional audio use. The CD-35 is in many respects a new ground-breaking CD/SACD-Player design with…
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Special Award 2016 by High Fidelity – Poland Ayon Audio CD-35 The audio world is dangerously heading towards price absurdities. The more expensive a product is, the more people write about it. Some of these devices are really worth paying attention to and truly make us understand sound better, but…
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Beginning at the end of 2003, PF established its first annual awards for fine audio. The Brutus Award was established for the best that David Robinson and Dave Clark had heard in their own listening rooms during that…
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T.H.E. Show Newport 2016 Report The Home Entertainment Show 2016 Ayon Audio / USA Tube Audio Labs Featuring Lumin White, Mastersound, Torus Power, Mark Levinson and Revel. The Ayon Audio and USA Tube Audio room at T.H.E. Show Newport 2016 filled the large Ballroom Salon E with multiple high-end audio…
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Ayon-Audio-CD-3sx-Review_TAS-2016 Ayon CD-3sx 2016 Editors’ Choice Award 2016 Editors’ Choice Awards: Disc Players $2,000 – $10,000 by TAS Staff September 2, 2016 Categories: Disc players, Multi-format disc players Ayon Audio CD-3sx CD-player/DAC/Preamplifier The Class A vacuum-tube-based CD-3sx has the capability to serve as a CD player,…
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