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January 2017, Poland Super Audio CD Player: Ayon Audio CD-35 By Wojciech Pacula January 2017 …
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The Odin, a 50 watt per channel direct heated triode stereo amp, is a state-of-the-art tube amp made in Austria and is among the best I’ve heard. Its ability to throw an open soundstage filled with images of high density and energy while being highly resolving yet neutral in tonal…
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December 2016, Poland Text & Images: Wojciech Pacula / December 2016 / No.151 It is very difficult to understand why companies specializing in devices based on electron tubes did not rush to the new market segment, which suddenly opened up to them – the headphone amplifiers’ one. Very…
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Ayon Audio CD-35 Super Audio CD Player Review + Krakow Sonic Society Vol 1, KTS Meeting # 105 01-01-2017 | By Wojciech Pacula | Issue 89 The Super Audio CD Player, Ayon Audio CD-35 turned out to…
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Opinion 1 After two weeks of very tiring reportage marathon, during which our day easily reached eighteen-nineteen working hours, finally we can sit down for a while, take a deep breath and tackle some things we did not manage before the AVS. Well, it seemed that we had things photographed,…
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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 year. You can think of it as our equivalent…
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Ayon Sigma DAC CHRISTIAAN PUNTER 16 November 2016 Tube Seduction with technical precision I’ve never been very tube oriented, but I have to admit that the glowing bottles are starting to grow on me since the Avant Gardes occupied my listening space along with a range of tube amps. I always…
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Ayon Audio Triton III Integrated Amplifier 11-14-2016 | By Gary Lea | Issue 88 I have always been a fan of Ayon products. While many of their offerings are not for the faint of heart from a cost perspective you can generally count on the company to produce some of the…
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By Wojciech Pacula November 2016 No.150 I know Gerhard Hirt pretty well, I think I can call him my friend. He runs his company, Ayon Audio as a top class manager should but at the…
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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, a…
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September 2016 & Magazine Best Audiophile Product of 2016 Blue Note Award Best Of 2016 Blue Note Equipment Awards Ayon Audio Crossfire EVO Monoblock Power Amplifier Price: €22,500 / pair with AA62B, €25,000 / pair with AA82B Ayon Audio Crossfire EVO Monoblock Power Amplifier “I have been using Ayon’s preamplifiers for…
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AYON S-3 JUNIOR ENGLISH VER. Opinion 1 We did write already about unification, where some brands reach levels nearing perfection, so many times, that we cannot count it anymore, but today’s example confused me a bit. This because remembering the previous unit, despite rumors about my senility and old…
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The Neoteric Listener – The Ayon Scorpio Integrated and CD-07s Compact Disc Player 06-20-2016 | By Dean Seislove | Issue 85 The Ayon Audio Scorpio is a heavy, Class A integrated amplifier made of high grade aluminum and powered by gleaming KT88 and 12AU7 tubes. One look and listen, and you know…
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Ayon Auris II Preamplifier AYON AUDIO AWARDED “BEST SOUND” MUNICH HIGH END AUDIO SHOW 2015 ! REVIEW SUMMARY: “Auris gave some body to this image. It put the whole sound more “stable onto the ground”. It filled the air with lively tissue and loaded some serious mass wherever needed. It…
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Ayon Blog Review from Audio-Philia March 26, 2016 – Linda Gray Introducing Ayon Audio – New to Audio-philia Timeless Design. Magic Sound. Ayon Audio is an award-winning Austrian company offering one of the most extensive and highly regarded ranges of vacuum tube components in the world,…
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AYON SPITFIRE ENGLISH VER. Opinion 1 During telephone calls on the occasion of the test of the third version of the Crossfire, as well as during face to face meetings in the Krakow location of Nautilus, I heard from Gerhard Hirt, that there is no room for improvement in an…
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Ayon Audio CD-3sx CD Player/DAC/Preamplifier Class A Tube Satisfaction Equipment report by Andre Jennings | Feb 19th, 2016 Ayon Audio CD-3sx CD Player/DAC/Preamplifier Class A Tube Satisfaction Categories: Tubed preamplifiers, Disc players, Digital-to-analog converters | Products: Ayon Audio CS-3sx Ayon Audio CD-3sx CD Player/DAC/Preamplifier From the time digital music became…
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Ayon CD-2s It is not so long ago that I tested the cheapest, at least to date, player from the Austrian company Ayon Audio, the model CD-07. It does not take much cunning, to deduce from the test, that I liked it, and the conclusion of that article, “the…
READ MORE Soundstage Ultra.com DetailsWritten by Jeff FritzCategory: OpinionCreated: 01 October 2015 I was having an e-mail conversation with a distributor friend of mine, Boris Granovsky, of Absolute Hi End, in Australia. We were discussing different audio brands and models, something we’ve done ever since we first met, a few years ago…
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August 2015 World Premiere! Ayon Audio Crossfire EVO Monoblock Power Amplifier Ayon Audio’s Crossfire Evo produces an amazingly rich, tuneful sound with tonal balance. Review By Wojciech Pacuła August 2015 When we carried Ayon Audio’s Crossfire Evo monoblock amplifier for review to my apartment on the fourth…
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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…
READ MORE 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…
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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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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…
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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 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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GOLD FINGERPRINT Award AYON AUDIO SPHERIS III Development of current version of this preamplifier took 25 years – it is really hard to imagine – a quarter of a century! That also means 25 years of investing in a project – it took not only a lot of time but…
READ MORE 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…
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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…
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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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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…
READ MORE 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…
READ MORE 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 stirring joy…
READ MORE 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…
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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…
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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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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 am…
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Ayon Orthos XS Power Amplifier By: Marek Dyba March 6, 2014 No. 118 Manufacturers of different products have, in general, two main choices – they can adjust to the trends that drive…
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