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RE: to the level of the Ayre- I'm sure the Ayre is a big step up in every ($$) respect! nt

Posted by dbphd (A) on April 20, 2016 at 18:22:30

In Reply to: to the level of the Ayre- I'm sure the Ayre is a big step up in every ($$) respect! nt posted by oldmkvi on April 20, 2016 at 14:06:20:

I'm not sure how to describe the sound using the Ayre or what makes it so special for me. Music just sounds like music with no artificiality or HiFi aspect. It's believable that small jazz and baroque groups are at the other end of the room or that I am in the bar. I've attended many graduate recitals at Stanford and spent a lot of evenings at the Lighthouse and Shelly's Manne-Hole in soCal, so I have pretty good calibration for the sounds. With the Ayre, I can appreciate those sounds in my listening room. Large orchestrations have a sense of depth and clarity I don't get from the Oppo or Sony with CDs or SACDs. Finally, the Ayre has an uncanny ability to make CDs sound good. I admit, there's a lot of handwaving in my explanation. I have a couple of discs I drag out whenever I'm listening to new or changed equipment: I listen for the quality of the guitar in "Love in Vain" the Abkco "Let It Bleed" SACD and for a sense of air (openness, whatever) in the Harmonia Mundi Coreli Concerti Grossi Op. 6, Concerto 1 in D major CDr. The timbre of the guitar sounds real and the spaciousness of the Corelli is great with the Ayre.

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