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Hifistatement’s choice for the Statement in High Fidelity | German Edition 2023 is the Ayon Crossfire Evo, that Mr. Carsten Bussler reviewed: “The Crossfire Evo is a tube integrated amplifier that is technically mature to the last detail and is one of the best units on the world market in…
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Ayon CD-35 II High Fidelity pl Review The fact that my reference player, the CD-35 HF Edition, sounds better was not a surprise to me. Its sound is more resolved, deeper and darker – it is closer to the sound of an analog tape than to a vinyl record. The treble has…
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Enjoy The Music Magazine Ayon Triton III Legendary Performance Award Pure Class A – Pentode Triode Operation
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Enjoy The Music Magazine Ayon Triton EVO Legendary Performance Award Pure Class A – Pentode Triode Operation
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Ayon Audio CD-10 II : Stereoplay – Germany, March 2020 Outstanding value at any price! Awarded the Stereoplay Highlight logo. Click here to read more (in German)
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Ayon Audio CD-10 II CD Player By: Hifi-Advice’s Christiaan Punter 27 March 2020 Click Here to read review
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Ayon Audio S-10 II Network Player Streamer February 2020, HiFi-Statement, Germany, by Mr. Rolan Dietl (German Version) Click here to read German version Click here to read English version
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T.H.E. Show 2019: Ayon Audio, Lumenwhite and the (valve) Glass Menagerie Rafe Arnott | Jun 15, 2019 “Strange things are afoot at the Cirlce-K.” – Ted, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure A relatable quote if you’ve ever been to a hi-fi trade show and tried to make sense of hundreds of rooms full…
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T.H.E. Show 2019 – Ayon Epsilon Gen 4, Auris and S-10, LumenWhite Kyara Speakers, and BBS Racks Jason Victor Serinus – June 12, 2019 I visited three large rooms on the second floor, and all of them suffered from soft, moveable air walls whose porous surfaces and interior…
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Ayon Audio, LumenWhite HIGH END Munich 2019 Show Report By Steven R. Rochlin “Best Sound Cost No Object” Award! Just as during their debut at AXPONA 2019, Ayon Audio had their sweet looking pure Class A Epsilon Evo Mono vacuum tube amplifiers (€20,000) here at HIGH END 2019. A nice…
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Ayon Audio & Lumen White – Show picture (retrospective) Demo System: Ayon – BlackCraneAyon – EpsilonAyon – Conquistador / LinestageAyon – Spheris PhonostageAyon – S10 SignatureAyon – CD35 HFTransrotor -TurntableSiltech – Cables Acoustic elements & room treatment by Sonitus
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Best of the Best Award 2017: Ayon Audio CD-35 LumenWhite – High Fidelity Ayon Audio CD-35 Best of the Best Award 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…
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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 MORE Ayon Audio CD-35 HF (HIGH FIDELITY EDITION)TEST: No. 164 | December 2017Award: GOLD Fingerprint The point of reference for this player were analogue master tapes. Although every second manufacturer declares that they strive to find out the musical truth in this way, I happen to know that this is not…
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Ayon 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 MORE Ayon 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…
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Ayon CD-35 HF Best Product of 2017 Whipped up by the great success of the CD-35 we got more and more requests to launch a special and limited Version of the CD-35, quasi a “digital” machine that should as “analogue” as never before. All music lovers engaged in top analogue…
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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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Ayon-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,…
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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…
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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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Ayon Audio CD-2: Stereomojo Review & Award AYON CD-2 TUBE CD PLAYER Price: $5,499 Review by James L. Darby We walked into the huge Ayon demo room at an audio show some time ago and were visually blown away by the stunning tube audio gear carefully placed on several large…
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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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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…
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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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