Item Condition: Ex-Demo, no visible marks or scratches
Shipping Options: Pickup available and you can audition.
Suburb or Town: Preston
State: VIC
Payment Method: EFT, Cash on Pickup
Reason for selling: Ex-Display ( too many components in the small office )
Further Information:
Ayre Acoustics QX-5 Twenty is fully equipped digital hub because, while it is at heart a D/A processor, its full complement of digital inputs and its 100-step digital-domain volume control allow it to perform as the prime component in a digital music system.
Ayre Acoustics QX-5 Twenty is both a certified "Roon Ready" component and adheres to the DLNA/UPnP protocols, it can access both locally stored music files and streaming music services such as Tidal and Spotify.
Made in Boulder, Colorado USA
zero-feedback and fully-balanced discrete circuitry
ESS ES9038PRO DAC chip
Ayre & Morion jointly-developed crystal oscillator
Ayre’s Minimum Phase digital filter
Ayre’s Diamond output stage
100 step digital volume control
Linear analog power supply
High-speed circuit board material
Ten digital inputs: Ethernet, Asychronous USB, AES/EBU (2), Optical (3), S/PDIF (3)
John Atkinson / Stereophile :
"Ayre Acoustics' QX-5 Twenty is one of the finest-sounding, most versatile digital audio products I have had the pleasure of using. No, it doesn't offer MQA, which may be a problem for some. But my experience of feeding audio data over my network to the QX-5 with Roon has convinced me that this, rather than USB connections, is the way forward. Class A+ with a bullet!"
https://www.stereophile.com/content/ayre-acoustics-qx-5-twenty-da-processor
Philip Beaudette / Sound Stage HiFi :
"Ayre Acoustics’ QX-5 Twenty is the finest-sounding DAC I’ve used in my system. At $8950 it isn’t exactly affordable, but given the high costs of some other companies’ flagship DACs, the Ayre’s price isn’t unreasonable. Furthermore, the inclusion of a headphone amplifier and the fact that it can be used as a preamp greatly increase its value, when you consider the potential cost of buying such components separately."
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