The Glimmer Twins were right: If you can't always get what you want, sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need. Take Ayre's K-1 preamplifier, for instance. I'd been trying to get Ayre to send me their $3750 V-3 power amplifier since the moment I started writing for <I>Stereophile</I>; after approximately a year and a half, I finally got a phone call from then Marketing Director Bruce Van Allen.

The Glimmer Twins were right: If you can't always get what you want, sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need. Take Ayre's K-1 preamplifier, for instance. I'd been trying to get Ayre to send me their $3750 V-3 power amplifier since the moment I started writing for <I>Stereophile</I>; after approximately a year and a half, I finally got a phone call from then Marketing Director Bruce Van Allen.

The Glimmer Twins were right: If you can't always get what you want, sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need. Take Ayre's K-1 preamplifier, for instance. I'd been trying to get Ayre to send me their $3750 V-3 power amplifier since the moment I started writing for <I>Stereophile</I>; after approximately a year and a half, I finally got a phone call from then Marketing Director Bruce Van Allen.

The Glimmer Twins were right: If you can't always get what you want, sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need. Take Ayre's K-1 preamplifier, for instance. I'd been trying to get Ayre to send me their $3750 V-3 power amplifier since the moment I started writing for <I>Stereophile</I>; after approximately a year and a half, I finally got a phone call from then Marketing Director Bruce Van Allen.

The Glimmer Twins were right: If you can't always get what you want, sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need. Take Ayre's K-1 preamplifier, for instance. I'd been trying to get Ayre to send me their $3750 V-3 power amplifier since the moment I started writing for <I>Stereophile</I>; after approximately a year and a half, I finally got a phone call from then Marketing Director Bruce Van Allen.

The Glimmer Twins were right: If you can't always get what you want, sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need. Take Ayre's K-1 preamplifier, for instance. I'd been trying to get Ayre to send me their $3750 V-3 power amplifier since the moment I started writing for <I>Stereophile</I>; after approximately a year and a half, I finally got a phone call from then Marketing Director Bruce Van Allen.

The Glimmer Twins were right: If you can't always get what you want, sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need. Take Ayre's K-1 preamplifier, for instance. I'd been trying to get Ayre to send me their $3750 V-3 power amplifier since the moment I started writing for <I>Stereophile</I>; after approximately a year and a half, I finally got a phone call from then Marketing Director Bruce Van Allen.

While I was working on <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com//amplificationreviews/609/">my review of the K-1 preamplifier</A>, I telephonically corralled Ayre's Research Director Charlie Hansen for a midwinter afternoon's gabfest. I started by asking Charlie how he became an audiophile.

While I was working on my review of the K-1 preamplifier, I telephonically corralled Ayre's Research Director Charlie Hansen for a midwinter afternoon's gabfest. I started by asking Charlie how he became an audiophile.

In the summer of 1996, <I>SGHT</I> editor Lawrence Ullman made me an offer I couldn't refuse: "Wes," he asked, "how would you like to review M&K's new THX speaker package?"