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The Ayon Spitfire is using similar technologies of our famous “Crossfire” amplifier. It exhibits all well known Ayon magic and qualities. This amplifier offers exceptional tonal neutrality, high resolution and punchy-airy timbre with great musical sweetness. A quick uncoloured and powerful bass and a spacious 3D soundstage are self-evident for…
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“State of the Art” The new driver stage for the Titan Evo amplifier has been completely new re-designed and is operating now by our own new AA20B driver tube as well to provide for the shortest signal path and the most direct signal flow. The “Titan” will appeal to the…
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August 2015 SA Equipment World Premiere! Ayon Audio Crossfire EVO Monoblock Power AmplifierAyon Audio’s Crossfire Evo produces an amazingly rich, tuneful sound with tonal balance. Review By Wojciech Pacuła When we carried Ayon Audio’s Crossfire Evo monoblock amplifier for review to my apartment on the fourth floor, my mind…
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NETWORK PLAYER AYON S-3 All the traditional formats – vinyl records, cassettes, CDs, DVD, Blu-ray, etc. – created at the initiative of the electronics industry. The public could only humbly show interest in them, getting the carriers themselves and reproducing apparatus. However, in the 90-ies of the last century a…
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Ayon S-3 Test 7-27-2015 // Roland Dietl Digital-to-analog converters have experienced rapid development in recent years, and the days when music was hard-coded by high-end supporters are long gone. In order to transport the music as lossless as possible from a mass storage device (NAS or USB hard disk)…
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“ Timeless design, modern elegance and state-of-the-art technology “ A loudspeaker masterpiece with breathtaking musicality, transparency and extraordinary dynamics. With this flagship the Austrian master craftsmanship made a totally outstanding and a unique three-part cabinet design. A distinctive cabinet with highest level of difficulties (perhaps one of the most difficult…
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2015 Newport Audio Show Report Show Report by Paul Seydon | Jun 04th, 2015 Categories: Solid-state power amplifiers, Tubed power amplifiers, Solid-state preamplifiers, Tubed preamplifiers, Integrated amplifiers. Are there now too many audio shows? I ask because, coming hard on the heels of the…
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By Jason Victor Serinus – “Stereophile” – USA Virtually every system on the lobby level of the Hotel Irvine qualified as cost-no-object, with some being more stratospherically priced than others. What immediately seized the attention of everyone who entered this extremely large room was the marvelously full range, convincingly colorful…
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Meanwhile many professional UPnP-control apps are established, available partially for free or for a small fee. A control-app is like a visual remote control and the customer requirements regarding the surface design etc. have become so manifold that customers use several depending upon their requirements and preferences. Therefore Ayon Audio…
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Demo Equipment: Loudspeaker: Lumen White – White Light “Anniversary”Analog Turntable: Lumen White – MysterePower amplifier: Ayon – Crossfire Evolution & AlphaPre amp: Ayon – Spheris III – LinestagePhonostage: Ayon – SpherisCD-Transport: Ayon CD-TNetwork-Transport: Ayon NW-TDAC: Ayon Sigma & Stealth
READ MORE A new firmware ( v8.0.24.42 ) for the S-3, S-5, NW-T and NW-T-DSD is available as download. NOTE: Do not interrupt the power supply, internet connection or switching the input selector while the update download is active! Changes since Ayon_v8.0.24.41:• Workaround for JRiver sending incorrect AIFF mime type.• Fix of…
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Hall 1 S03 14th May 2015 – 17th May 2015 M,O,C, MünchenLilienthalallee 4080939 MünchenGermany
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We are proud to introduce a new generation of fully balanced designed KT150 stereo power amplifier, the Spirit PA. It took years of development and refinement resulting in unique minimalist true balanced circuit topology to produce an accurate and seductive holographic soundstage.Musical finesse with fine details and powerful performance has…
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“One of the most superb sounding and powerful single-ended triode amplifier”. The new driver stage for the Vulcan Evo amplifier has been completely new re-designed and is operating now by our own new AA20B driver tube as well to provide for the shortest signal path and the most direct signal…
READ MORE A new firmware ( v8.0.24.41 ) for the S-3, S-5 and NW-T is available as download. NOTE: Do not interrupt the power supply, internet connection or switching the input selector while the update download is active! Changes: Deactivated external clock mode in CnE. Fixed PLAY COMMAND incorrect implementation. added termination…
READ MORE March 2015, Germany Some review quotes: English Translation Ultimate big soundThe Vulcan Evo of course obeys the well known Ayon principles, i.e. features an automatic bias control system including tube test program. Additionally there are protective circuits making the giant amplifier extremely operationally safe. Consequently it is not a big…
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Ayon Audio CD-1sx Review SoundRebels – “Vacuum Tube CDP Bliss” Ayon CD-1sx The introduction to this review took me longer than expected. On one hand this was due to the unification of the product line of this manufacturer, on the other a highly recognizable design of the products. Probably this…
READ MORE AYON SPHERIS PHONOSTAGE ENGLISH VER. The current trend of growing interest in vinyl resulted in more and more companies having a phonostage in their catalog. The bigger players in the branch have even more than one model, covering all price levels they operate on. Of course to be able to…
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Ayon Spheris III Linestage By Wojciech Pacula January 2015 No. 128 My memories from (I think) the first edition of High…
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“One of the most superb sounding single-ended triode amplifier”. The Ayon Crossfire Evo is the little brother of our famous “Vulcan Evo” amplifier.The new driver stage for the Crossfire Evo amplifier has been completely new re-designed and is operating now by our own new AA20B driver tube as well to…
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Ayon Spheris III High Fidelity’s BEST PRODUCT 2014 Award, Poland A preamplifier is a heart of a classic, analogue audio system. The final sonic effect relies a lot on how well this “heart” works. Many manufacturers don’t understand that, treating this element of the system lightly, often not realizing how different it…
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December 2014, Germany Some review quotes: English Translation A real stunner; also the sound of the strict single-ended amp is typical Ayon and triodes: earthy, three-dimensionally large, colorful, well defined, much more powerful than you would assume looking at the data and not without the smooth natural sound of good…
READ MORE Ayon Stealth DAC/Preamplifier Long-Term Satisfaction by Dick Olsher December 4, 2014 What’s in a model name? Well, sometimes not much at all when it’s merely an arbitrary numerical designation and a potential source of confusion for my slightly dyslexic mind. On the other hand, Ayon’s choice of model name…
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November 6-8, 2014 Ayon equipment in Demo there: Crossfire Evolution – Monoblock Spheris III – Linestage Spheris – Phonostage CD-T – CD-Transport NW-T – Network-Transport Sigma – D/A Converter
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Ayon Spheris III 13.10.2014 // JÜRGEN SAILE What happens when a company like Ayon Audio once pulls out all stops and leaves the technicians off the leash? Sends the controller together with red pencil on vacation? This is what happened with the new Spheris III precursor. At least it seems. But I will do…
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STEREOPHILE – John Atkinson My final room Sunday afternoon was the Ayon and USA Tube Audio Labs. Not only did the last company’s Tineo J horn speakers, with their powered stereo subwoofers operating below 70Hz($35,000/system) catch my eye, their sound, driven by Ayon’s Titan mono amplifiers ($68,000/pair) and Spheris III…
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Ayon CD-3sx Review summary: English TranslationThe fundamental sound signature of the CD-3sx really – independent from the source – is in the very best sense “ayonic”, i.e. bursting with energy, enormously rich in content, and , let’s call it this way, “juicy”, in the sense of sappy. Delicious: a strong…
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Ayon Audio CD-3sx This is the conclusion of a three page review of the CD-3sx (English translation of German article from September/October 2014 issue of Audiophile Magazine) Conclusion The CD-3sx turntable seems to me to be a successful product, as much for the CD part as for the DAC…
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August 2014 World Premiere! Ayon Audio Sigma 32/192 PCM And 2.3/5.6 MHz DSD DAC With Preamplifier A warm and engaging DAC. Review By Wotjek Pacuła Life’s easier for the big guys. Starting from kindergarten, through primary school and into the business world. And here we have the Ayon Audio Sigma…
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August 2014, Germany Review summary: English TranslationAlan Parson’s “I Robot” flashed and grooved around the listeners’ ears, seemed more lively and warmer than ever. Surprising, however, that the often claimed disadvantages of tubes i.e. a restrained fundamental tone or a smooth bass never ever appeared.On the contrary: with her rather…
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AYON POLARIS III & ORTHOS XS These particularly accomplished and innovative new electronics feature stunning technical specifications. Rather than figures with very relative meaning, it is through listening that we have discovered animals as ferocious as they are subtle. The electronic tubes really different, radical but musically haunting are quite rare…
READ MORE A new firmware ( v8.0.21.38 ) for the S-3, S-5 and NW-T is available as download. NOTE: Do not interrupt the power supply, internet connection or switching the input selector while the update download is active.
READ MORE Playback of DoP (DSD over PCM) and native DSD is supported by e.g. JRiver Media Center. Existing NW-T’s can be upgraded to the DSD version too.
READ MORE A new firmware ( v8.0.21.38 ) for the NW-T/DSD is available as download. NOTE: Do not interrupt the power supply, internet connection or switching the input selector while the update download is active. Changes Added the DSF Support key (for enabling native DSD playback). Fixed DSD and PCM playback: no…
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Ayon Audio Crossfire III Review by: Marek Dyba Published: 5 July No. 122 To find out which version of Ayon Crossfire one is facing,…
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T.H.E Show 2014: Day 2 Continued Jason Victor Serinus | Jun 5, 2014 Ayon at T.H.E. Newport Show 2014 There were lots of systems in the Ayon Audio room, including this one that included, courtesy of Charles Harrison, the very first pair of new, made in the USA Tube Audio…
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Acustic Arts 1 MK3 $5530 & Amp 1 MK2 $6490 By – James L. Darby April, 2014 If it’s one thing I’ve learned in this life, it is that we have to control our expectations. If our expectations are too low, we can set ourselves up for failure. If…
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April 2014 — Germany Review summary: English TranslationStreamer at the edge! Ayon invested with love and understanding in a tonally superior tube preamp-DAC. Now there is no longer an excuse for the classical high-ender: the new network-heaven begins here.Price-performance: outstandingDecorated with the Stereoplay Reference logo Test Fazit: German originalStreamer…
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