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Review summary: English Translation “Actually, this machine is completely crazy. Or absolutely ingenious?” “The Austrians, famous for sheer monumental solutions, indeed do not incorporate in their top-player one of the usual “me too..” valve assemblies but rather an absolutely cunning elaborate amplifier section equipped with noblest components, and moreover relies…
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Robert Harley on Electronics By Robert Harley, Jun 06th, 2017 RH’s Best of Show Best Sound (cost no object) USA Tube Audio’s demonstration of the new Lumen White speakers driven by Ayon electronics was spectacularly great, with wall-to-wall soundstaging. Close your eyes and you’d never know that you were in…
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by Thanasis Moraitis (Greece) for HIEND NEWS – Ultimate Newspaper & Deals of HIEND Audio Equipment web magazine. From Austria to Greece: Ayon ‘Tmeless Design’ Setup by Audio Design Ayon ‘Timeless Design’ Setup in Greece Two evenings with Aurstian Ayon Audio Ayon System Check! by Thanasis Moraitis Oι επισκέψεις μας σε…
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Ayon Conquistador “State of the Art & Cost – no – Object” Timeless beauty – elegant, pure and full of innovative technology This preamp is inimitable with a unique character. With the Conquistador everything started with a blank sheet of paper. Developing and designing a new project you must think…
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Visit us on our next exhibition: HIGH END 2017 – Ayon Audio 18.-21. MAY 2017 MUNICH HIGHEND2017.DE Booth D03, Hall 1 ( Living Sound GmbH : Ayon Audio & Lumen White ) 18 th – 21th May 2017 M.O.C. München Lilienthalallee 40 80939 München Germany
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Some review quotes: English Translation Also in the HA-3 and practically unchanged you find again Ayon’s tonal philosophy already known from the big powerful triode amps. This includes a dry, acutely firm, and voluminous bass-fundament, that also here became unmistakably manifest with the rather slimly “predisposed” Sennheiser HD800. Impact and…
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Review summary: English Translation All functions available by the S3-junior user’s interface are easy to use by everyone while the 3,5-inch display is clear and keeps you always informed. The first impression you get by listening to the S-3 junior is a big 3D soundstage which is always pleasant and friendly…
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03-01-2017 | By Gary Lea Issue 90 The Ayon CD-3sx CD Player is a companion piece to the Ayon Triton III integrated amplifier that I reviewed. This is a full-featured Tube Top Loader CD-Player Class-A triode vacuum-tube output stage for single-ended & balanced operation, All the superlatives that apply to…
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January 2017, Poland http://highfidelity.pl/@main-713&lang=enhttp://highfidelity.pl/@main-707&lang=enhttp://highfidelity.pl/@main-716&lang=en
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Ayon CD-35 The Ayon CD-35 establishes a new benchmark in SE-Triode vacuum-tube CD/SACD-Player performance by combining a fully balanced PCM-DSD DAC. The CD-35 is also prepared for computer playback and general DSD professional audio use. The CD-35 is in many respects a new ground-breaking CD/SACD-Player design with an advanced technology…
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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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Special Award 2016 by High Fidelity – Poland Ayon Audio CD-35 The audio world is dangerously heading towards price absurdities. The more expensive a product is, the more people write about it. Some of these devices are really worth paying attention to and truly make us understand sound better, but…
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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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Hi-Fi Show/Klangbilder – Vienna / Austria, November 10th – 13th, 2016Location: Arctotel Kaiserwasser, Wagramer Str. 8, 1220 WienAyon Audio & Lumen White
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Ayon S-10 In 2011 Ayon Audio has set a milestone with the S-3: the first network-player with top-class vacuum-tube technology worldwide, separate DAC section and an analogue preamp section. 6 years later we present the successor S-10 and it was created to embody, in more advanced technologies and very…
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Ayon Pearl series Cables – Almost daily we are confronted by our worldwide customers with the question which cable would be most appropriate or best sounding for their Ayon installation. Unfortunately, there is no “best” cable and will never be! Every cable has different effects on the sound produced by…
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Ayon Scorpio Mono “The entrance into real high-end mono vacuum tube amplification”. The Scorpio represents a dramatic rethinking of economic vacuum tube basedmonoblock amplifier. The Scorpio monoblock combines neutrality, realistic dynamics andpower projection, true musicality with high resolution.Perfect finish, elegant discrete design and outstanding sonic performancemake the “Scorpio” unique, setting a…
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Irvine, California Jonathan Valin – The Absolute Sound Lumen White intro’d its $70k White Light 25th Anniversary three-way with ceramic drivers driven by Ayon XS monos, and the sound was so good I gave it a double exclamation point in my notes. With an extremely wide soundstage with virtually…
READ MORE Irvine, California (June 3-5, 2016) “Best of Show” – Cost No Object – Robert Harley Robert Harley – The Absolute Sound – Lumenwhite White Light 25 Anniversary Loudspeaker – “Best of Show” Robert Harley’s Best of Show Best Sound (cost no object) The newly introduced Lumen White White Light speaker from Switzerland ($70k) not…
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Ayon HA-3 “STATE – OF – THE ART” The HA-3 was developed for headphone lovers searching exclusively the very special music experience. It impresses with it’s Single-Ended-Triode technology taken to its respective extremes by Ayon in all their products. Selected in-house AA45 Mesh super triodes, the perhaps most perfect and…
READ MORE Booth C 03, Hall 1 ( Living Sound GmbH – Ayon Audio – Lumen White ) 05th – 08th May 2016 M,O,C, MünchenLilienthalallee 4080939 MünchenGermany
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Herewith we announce that the Axiss Corporation has taken over the Ayon rights of distribution for Japan and will immediately commence introducing Ayon Audio into the market. Axiss Corporation 2 Chrome 34-27 Jingumae,Shibuya,150-0001 Tokyo Japan Phone: +81 3 5410-0071Email: [email protected]: www.axiss.co.jp
READ MORE An updated USB-XMOS driver (PCM24-192 & DSD ) for WIN7 – WIN10 is available. Version v3.20.0 This driver is suitable for following models: CD-1sc, CD-3s, CD-5s, CD-07s, CD-1sx, CD-3sx, Sigma, Stealth and Stratos.
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Ayon S-3 “Junior” Many of our clients have asked in the past for a more affordable Network-Player based on the famous S-3. The downgraded S-3 “junior” version is the answer and offers many design highlights from its bigger brother, the S-3. One of the major changes at the S-3 “junior”…
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“The entrance into real high-end tube amplification”. The Scorpio represents a dramatic rethinking of economic vacuum tube based integrated amplifier industrial design while retaining the basic architecture as our highly regarded “Spirit” amplifier. The Scorpio integrated amplifier combines neutrality, realistic dynamics and power projection, true musicality with high resolution. Perfect…
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…
READ MORE A new firmware ( v8.0.24.43 ) for the S-3, S-5, NW-T and NW-T-DSD is available as download. NOTE: Do not interrupt the power supply, internet connection or switching the input selector while the update download is active! Changes since Ayon_v8.0.24.42 Fixed infinite loading when jumping back to the root of…
READ MORE September 2015 A new controller app under the app name “Ayon Audio” version 2.0.2 for Apple devices is available (iTunes -App Store) and online.
READ MORE September 2015 A new controller app under the app name “Ayon Control” for Android (Google Play) is available and online.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.streamunlimited.ayonhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.streamunlimited.ayon
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The Ayon Spitfire is using similar technologies of our famous “Crossfire” amplifier. It exhibits all well known Ayon magic and qualities. This amplifier offers exceptional tonal neutrality, high resolution and punchy-airy timbre with great musical sweetness. A quick uncoloured and powerful bass and a spacious 3D soundstage are self-evident for…
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“State of the Art” The new driver stage for the Titan Evo amplifier has been completely new re-designed and is operating now by our own new AA20B driver tube as well to provide for the shortest signal path and the most direct signal flow. The “Titan” will appeal to the…
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August 2015 World Premiere!Ayon Audio Crossfire EVO Monoblock Power AmplifierAyon Audio’s Crossfire Evo produces an amazingly rich, tuneful sound with tonal balance.Review By Wojciech Pacuła When we carried Ayon Audio’s Crossfire Evo monoblock amplifier for review to my apartment on the fourth floor, my mind flooded with memories of a…
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