News, Events & Awards
The SPECIAL AWARD category is some kind of “Best of the Best”, but, apart from sound, we also take into account the given idea, people engaged in the project and the influence of the product on the audio world. This year, we have awarded two companies: Ayon Audio and Verictum…
READ MOREAMPLIFIER AYON TRITON III This heavy integrated amplifier created, it seems, in defiance of the skeptics who believe that tube amplifiers without environmental protection are not compatible with a complex load. “Triton” third generation, like its predecessor, is also able to control the most obstinate acoustics. In addition, 100 W…
READ MORE* POSITIVE FEEDBACK WRITERS CHOICE AWARD 2016 “THE SHOW ” – NEWPORT WINNER * TAS EDITORS’ CHOICE AWARD * AYON AUDIO “BEST OF SHOW” WINNER AT RMAF – CES LAS VEGAS & SALON SON IMAGE SHOW MONTREAL CANADA!! NEWPORT SHOW CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK AUDIO SHOW! SF AUDIO SHOW! Because of…
READ MOREAyon Audio Awards (some of 2017) Steven R. Rochlin of Enjoy The Music – ” Best Sound” Ayon Lumenwhite – RMAF High End Audio Show 2017 Denver, CO. Ayon Audio and Lumenwhite keep getting Best Of Sound at shows from not just us, but from other mags too and so…
READ MOREAyon Audio: Best Sound of the Show – Warsaw, Nov. 2017 “The setups made by Gerhard Hirt, Ayon Audio founder, surprise us each year. This time we were sitting under the artificial ceiling made of dozens acoustic modules. And another ones placed at the sides. (…) Last tweaks were…
READ MOREAyon CD-35 State-Of-Art tube CD/SACD Player / DAC – fully balanced CD-35 CD/SACD PLAYER(w optional PREAMP & Signature modules avaibale extra) The Ayon CD-35 establishes a new benchmark in SE-Triode vacuum-tube CD/SACDPlayer performance by combining a fully balanced PCM-DSD DAC. The CD-35 is also prepared for computer playback and general…
READ MOREThe Absolute Sound – Dick Olsher’s Best of Show – RMAF 2017 Most Coveted Product: For me it was the new Lumen White Kyara Studio Reference Monitors. Excellent transient precision and bass line definition even under difficult show conditions.
READ MOREAyon Audio and Lumenwhite at the RMAF 2017 Ayon Audio and Lumenwhite keep getting Best Of Sound at shows from not just us, but from other mags too and so once again they…
READ MOREAYON CD-10 ENGLISH VER. Opinion 1 Like Mark Twain used to say, the rumors that the CD is dead are vastly exaggerated. After first hype about the files, and the return of the vinyl, it turned out, that there is also place for the silver disc. But to draw such…
READ MORERMAF 2017 – Ayon Lumenwhite “Best Sound” of Show The Lumen White Kyara ($49,900/pair) and Ayon Audio Orthos XS Gen 4 mono blocks ($29,000/pair) were one of the best sounds from the show. The soundstage was unbelievably wide, stretching way beyond the boundaries of the small hotel room. There’s…
READ MOREJana’s RMAF Weekend Continues . . . Jana Dagdagan | Oct 13, 2017 Have you heard of xiao long bao (aka “soup dumplings”)? Not to be confused with any other type of dumpling, this semi-recent foodie sensation in the West hails…
READ MOREAyon CD-10 CD/SACD TEST The new Ayon CD-10 CD / SACD player replaces the previously produced CD-1x and CD-07s constructions in the catalog, becoming the most powerful middle-class model that the Austrian manufacturer has released to date Date: 2017-10-05 Author: Arkadiusz Ogrodnik The Austrian Ayon regularly visits…
READ MOREAyon CD-07 CD player A touch of glass Can this substantial valve output CD player mix it with the hardcore contenders? Jason Kennedy finds out Ayon is an Austrian company that produces sources, amplifi ers and loudspeakers, as well as glass audio components. It makes its own power valves at…
READ MORELos Angeles Audio Show 2017 Report LAAS 2017 Show Report “Best Sound” Cost No Object – Ayon Audio, Lumen White LAAS 2017 High-End Audio Show Report Wait what the??? Ayon Audio is a normal room? After many years of attending shows you simply get kinda sorta useta who’s room is…
READ MOREAyon CD-10 Player By Greg Borrowman | Friday, 09 June 2017 06:31 Ayon Audio has released its CD-10 SACD/CD player, which is a re-design of the company’s CD-1sx. It has a new DAC, a switchable PCM-DSD converter, a magnetic disc clamp and a 6H30 single-ended triode output stage. ‘Ayon’s new…
READ MOREAyon Audio Vulcan Evo Amplifiers 05-06-2017 | By Brad Morrical | Issue 9 Ayon Audio has over the last 15 years become one of the best known high end tube amplifier manufacturers, at…
READ MOREAyon CD-35 CD/SACD Player Reviewer: JULIAN MUSGRAVE “ The Ayon is a masterpiece of High End design and execution. ….Anne-Sophie Mutter’s violin sounds richer on the CD-35 than on the other players, and has impressive fluidity and texture”. SUMMARY: The Ayon is a masterpiece of High End design and execution.…
READ MOREAyon Crossfire Evo Monoblock Power Amplifier Opinion 1 I think, that most of you will agree with me, that the Austrian brand Ayon is part of the demanding world of audiophiles and High End for at least some years. And at that it is very recognizable. I know, that a…
READ MOREAyon Audio S-10 27.03.2017 // ROLAND DIETL At last year’s High End, Gerhard Hirt, owner and CEO of Ayon, introduced me to his new development in the area of network players in detail and afterwards it was clear that we wanted to have this device tested as soon as…
READ MOREAyon CD-35 Despite rumors about the death of the CD format dwelling around for some time, the silver disc does not care about them and still holds its position. Although sales are going down slowly and new issues are selling better on vinyl and as files, or in streaming, but…
READ MORESuper Audio CD Player: Ayon Audio CD-35 By Wojciech Pacula January 2017 …
READ MOREAyon 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…
READ MOREBeginning 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…
READ MOREAyon 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…
READ MOREAyon 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…
READ MOREBy 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…
READ MORET.H.E. Show Newport 2016 Report The Home Entertainment Show 2016 Ayon Audio / USA Tube Audio Labs Featuring Lumin White, Mastersound, Torus Power, Mark Levinson and Revel. The Ayon Audio and USA Tube Audio room at T.H.E. Show Newport 2016 filled the large Ballroom Salon E with multiple high-end audio…
READ MOREAyon-Audio-CD-3sx-Review_TAS-2016 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,…
READ MORESeptember 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…
READ MOREAYON 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…
READ MOREThe 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…
READ MOREAyon 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…
READ MOREAyon 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,…
READ MOREAYON 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…
READ MOREAyon 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…
READ MOREAyon 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 MORENETWORK 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 MORE2015 Newport Audio Show Report Show Report by Paul Seydon | Jun 04th, 2015 Categories: Solid-state power amplifiers, Tubed power amplifiers, Solid-state preamplifiers, Tubed preamplifiers, Integrated amplifiers. Are there now too many audio shows? I ask because, coming hard on the heels of the…
READ MOREAyon 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…
READ MOREAYON 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…
READ MOREAyon Spheris III Linestage By Wojciech Pacula January 2015 No. 128 My memories from (I think) the first edition of High…
READ MOREAyon 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…
READ MOREAyon 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 MOREAyon 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 and…
READ MOREAugust 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…
READ MOREAYON 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…
READ MOREAyon Audio Crossfire III Review by: Marek Dyba Published: 5 July No. 122 To find out which version of Ayon Crossfire one is facing,…
READ MORET.H.E Show 2014: Day 2 Continued Jason Victor Serinus | Jun 5, 2014 Ayon at T.H.E. Newport Show 2014 There were lots of systems in the Ayon Audio room, including this one that included, courtesy of Charles Harrison, the very first pair of new, made in the USA Tube Audio…
READ MOREAyon 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…
READ MOREAyon Epsilon Monoblock AYON EPSILON – “HXOS” (Greece) 5-star award The Epsilon Monoblock immediately makes clear its wider power bandwidth with more speed, top-end air, detailed resolution and more articulate combined with an impactful bass. It has also a wonderful ability to unravel complex musical threads with grain less purity…
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