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In Reply to: Atkinson re Ayre C5xe posted by dbphd on May 11, 2014 at 10:47:31:
>So would John Atkinson advise me to forget about buying an Ayre C5xe? I suspect so.It's still a great-sounding player, and Ayre keeps a stock of the Pioneer mechanism in
case of long-term problems with that part. Hand on heart, CDs played on the Ayre
still sound slightly better than the same files played on the computer through the same
DAC. But the convenience of having my music library instantly accessible from my
listening chair is so seductive!I bought my C-5xe in the summer of 2005 and it has been very reliable in all that time. The
only time it went back to Ayre was to have the MP upgrade, which was well worthwhile.
John Atkinson
Technical Editor, Stereophile
Edits: 05/11/14 05/11/14
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- RE: Atkinson re Ayre C5xe - John Atkinson 12:19:18 05/11/14 (36)
- RE: Atkinson re Ayre C5xe - dbphd 11:02:31 05/12/14 (5)
- RE: Atkinson re Ayre C5xe - dbphd 08:49:29 05/19/14 (4)
- RE: Atkinson re Ayre C5xe - Dave Pogue 09:55:37 05/19/14 (3)
- RE: Atkinson re Ayre C5xe - dbphd 00:43:00 05/20/14 (2)
- RE: Atkinson re Ayre C5xe - Dave Pogue 04:20:21 05/20/14 (1)
- RE: Atkinson re Ayre C5xe - dbphd 16:03:58 05/20/14 (0)
- Boxes v PC - fmak 08:24:36 05/12/14 (2)
- RE: "It is as good at 44.1k as any PC system." - Ivan303 08:30:14 05/12/14 (1)
- RE: "It is as good at 44.1k as any PC system." - fmak 10:50:31 05/12/14 (0)
- RE: Atkinson re Ayre C5xe - Sprezza Tura 15:35:48 05/11/14 (26)
- Ha ha! Awesome! -t - Sordidman 09:42:37 05/15/14 (0)
- RE: Comparing them - mkuller 19:01:23 05/11/14 (24)
- RE: Comparing them - JNS 15:49:07 05/12/14 (7)
- Yep, slow, lumbering, thick, syrupy -t - Sordidman 09:44:04 05/15/14 (2)
- RE: Yep, slow, lumbering, thick, syrupy -t - JNS 14:41:18 05/17/14 (1)
- Ha ha ha! Awesome - Sordidman 10:37:24 05/21/14 (0)
- RE: Comparing them - mkuller 15:55:27 05/12/14 (3)
- RE: Comparing them - JNS 17:03:23 05/18/14 (2)
- RE: Comparing them - abs1 14:13:40 05/19/14 (0)
- RE: Comparing them - JNS 18:41:28 05/18/14 (0)
- RE: Comparing them - Sprezza Tura 19:53:35 05/11/14 (0)
- I read JA's reply to say that his comparison only used the Ayre as a transport--same DAC both cases - John Marks 19:25:40 05/11/14 (14)
- RE: I read JA's reply to say that his comparison only used the Ayre as a transport--same DAC both cases - Sprezza Tura 19:49:37 05/11/14 (13)
- Nearly everything makes a difference... - John Marks 05:50:06 05/12/14 (12)
- RE: Nearly everything makes a difference... - Sprezza Tura 17:47:55 05/14/14 (0)
- RE: Nearly everything makes a difference... - Frihed89 14:35:48 05/12/14 (0)
- Native DSD files. - Kal Rubinson 06:56:47 05/12/14 (9)
- Excuse me, Kal - John Marks 17:53:41 05/12/14 (1)
- That is what they purport. - Kal Rubinson 18:26:02 05/12/14 (0)
- Modest start - E-Stat 10:57:19 05/12/14 (6)
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