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2013 Home Entertainment ShowNewport Beach, CA By: James & Linda Darby Category 1 Price No Object Best Amplifiers Ayon Titons Maybe the best 100 watts per side we’ve ever heard. At a mind melting quarter million a pair, these had better sound incredible. They did. Cost no object, indeed. But your…
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April 2013, Germany; awarded as Stereoplay REFERENCE Review quotes: English TranslationEnchanting. Tempting. Presenting the nature of the music absolutely to the point. The Ayon triode perfectly manages the rare mix of highest resolution and warmness, a fine presentation without the slightest harshness.Compared with the …….amplifier voices had more acoustic colour,…
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Lumen White Best Sound Award, Las Vegas 2013 U.S. audio webzine avshowrooms grants “best sound” and “gold show award” to the lumen white & ayon audio suite at t.h.e. show las vegas 2013.
READ MORE Lumen White Best Sound Award, Las Vegas 2013 U.S. audio webzine avshowrooms grants “best sound” and “gold show award” to the lumen white & ayon audio suite at t.h.e. show las vegas 2013.
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Ayon Audio CD-5s The Absolute Sound Editors Choice Award 2011 This is a new-category product that combines a linestage, a transport, and a multiple-input, high-res DAC in a beautiful case. The sound is the most “analog-like” digital you may ever hear. Its 192kHz/24-bit, upsampling-switchable DAC reproduces instruments with extraordinary realism…
READ MORE The Absolute Sound (USA) – The 2011 Editors’ Choice Award AYON Polaris III Preamplifier This full-function preamplifier’s highlights include outstanding three-dimensional imaging and endless layering coupled with no fatiguing, reference-quality transient delivery. Instruments seem to “pop up” from nowhere. The phonostage dazzles with liquidity and detail, plus it offers the…
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T.H.E Show 2011 – Ayon Audio “Best Sound” STEREOMOJO SPECIAL DUAL REPORT (CES 2011 & T.H.E. Show 2011) by James Darby – Publisher THE REPORTS As always, please note that, despite what other publications may say, it is nigh impossible to do critical and accurate sound evaluations at shows like…
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By: Wojciech Pacula 1 stycznia 2019 No 177 FIFTH YEARS OF “HIGH FIDELITY” AND WHAT DOES IT RESULT On May 1 this year, “High Fidelity” will hit fifteen years. Nothing, but something. At that time, the world has changed beyond recognition, technology has also…
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In still another first in the world review, our Publisher James L. Darby opined, “It has taken over two decades, but CD audio has come a long, long way. Faster processors and the development of better filters and knowledge of how to eliminate jitter and other digital artifacts has exploded.…
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BEST TUBE LINE Like most high-quality, high value tube components, we assumed Ayon was made in China. NAY! Ayon is designed and made in Austria! The moment we entered this huge room, our reaction was a unanimous “Wow!”. Charles Harrison, who imports the line for North America, did a magnificent job in emplementing…
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FIFTH YEARS OF “HIGH FIDELITY” AND WHAT DOES IT RESULT On May 1 this year, “High Fidelity” will hit fifteen years. Nothing, but something. At that time, the world has changed beyond recognition, technology has also changed, and we have changed. Also “High Fidelity”, the magazine you are reading…
READ MORE Reveiwer: Ken Micallef Financial Interests: Love Ayon Digital Source: Raysonic CD-168, Ayon CD-1 [in for review] Analog Source: Kuzma Stabi/Stogi turntable/arm combo, Denon DL-103 cartridge,Auditorium 23 Denon step-up transformer [on loan] Preamp: Shindo Allegro Amp: Shindo Haut Brion Speakers: DeVore Fidelity Nines Cables: Auditorium A23 speaker cables, Shindo interconnects, SilverFi interconnects [in for review] Stands: Salamander rack, 2″ Mapleshade platforms (8″…
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April 2008 “Kühnsten Träumen einsteigen: Ayons Spheris-Duo sieht innen mindestens so gut aus wie außen, erfüllt locker auch anspruchsvollste Phono-Wünsche und legt die (Röhren-) Vorverstärker-Frage ad acta. Sauteuer, aber auch saugut! „
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Hifi Review (Award) Hong Kong – Products of the year 2006 Ayon Spheris Click here to see enlargement of award
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Mike Wright – The Stereo Times Also falling in the category of “best sounds at the show” were the two systems run in the Acoustic Dreams room. The main system featured the Lumenwhite Whitelight ($40,000) and Ayon 52-B Reference amplifiers. A digital front end from dCS and the VYGER Indian…
READ MORE By: Clement Perry The award had to go to two rooms, Halcro and Ayon / Lumen White. They were just too good for one to be judged against the other. The solid-state Halcros created the same sound I heard at Singapore Show. It was quite a relief to be able…
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