Ayre Acoustics DX-5 universal disc player

Ayre Acoustics DX-5 universal disc player

Dec 13, 2010
The old Saab slogan, "Find Your Own Road," was so good that the old General Motors, which once owned Saab, had to kill it—just as the newly revived GM tried, in a "Call It Chevrolet" memo, to kill "Chevy." GM did a U-turn on that one the very next day, but "Find Your Own Road" never returned, and is available for Ayre Acoustics to use. I can't think of a better slogan for a company that I admire almost as much as I do Saab.

Consider this: While Ayre calls its new DX-5 ($10,000) a "universal A/V engine," the disc player doesn't have a coaxial or a TosLink S/PDIF input. That appears crazy to me, but to Ayre, no. They've found their own road.

Peachtree iDecco D/A integrated amplifier

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Dec 13, 2010
As with so many other things, from cell phones to soy milk, the idea of a portable MP3 player was something I at first disdained, only to later embrace with the fervor of any reformed sinner. But not so the idea of a high-fidelity iPod dock: Given that I now carry around several hundred high-resolution AIFF files on my own Apple iPod Touch, the usefulness of a compatible transport seemed obvious from the start. Look at it this way: In 1970, whenever I bought a music recording, I could enjoy it on any player, in any room in the house. In 2010, why shouldn't I enjoy at least that degree of convenience and flexibility—without resorting to a pair of tinny, uncomfortable earbuds?

New here and behind the times a little... need some help. :)

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The Entry Level
Submitted by Majiezell on

Hello, new guy here. I've had a passion for a/v since I could pronounce "Klipsch Heresy" which there were 3 pairs of in my living room growing up, coupled with some nice hardware such as a pair of Luxman M-02s, a Robertson Sixty-Ten, and a variety of nice preamps and c.d. players such as the Musical Fidelity A3. They all had their moments of critisism but they got me in the game. After the Heresy's were replaced with a full Paradigm reference V.2 setup and as I started to get older my system started to sprout, looking something like this...

Paradigm Monitor 11 V.5
Paradigm Studio Sub 12

boy am I confused!

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Computer Audio
Submitted by unclefester on

Hi. I'm new to this forum and comp. audio in general and have some questions. First my system is very modest - Parasound P/HP-830 preamp, Adcom GFA-535 amp, Cambridge Audio S30 speakers on stands, Athena powered sub in very small room of about 8'x10'. I've been using digital files for portable use (ipod) for a few years now and have been using EAC to rip mp3s. The mp3s can be used on just about anything and I liked that. But now I've become interested in the pc-as-a-music-server-thing.

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