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2002 Reviewer’s Choice, SoundStage.com
“…one of the exceedingly small handful of products that seem capable of
going about as far into the realm of musicality as we’ve ever ventured.”
– Wes Phillips, OnHiFi.com
“The K-1x is simply the finest-sounding line-stage preamplifier I’ve heard
in my system, both drawing me into the music and closer to the actual event.”
– John Leosco, SoundStage.com
“…breathtaking and enlightening.”
– Paul Bolin, Stereophile
K-1x preamplifier
Ayre Acoustics, Inc. 2300 B Central Avenue
Boulder, Colorado 80301 303 442.7300 303 442.7301 fax
www.ayre.com
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A y r e
The heart and soul of music and film reproduction.
A y r e
Features:
• Ultra-high-quality solid-silver contact stepped attenuator
• Zero feedback, fully balanced discrete circuitry
• Inductor-input audio power supply filtering
• Ayre Conditioner
™
(patent pending) power line RFI filter
• Special high-speed circuit board material
• Reference quality phono option features adjustable gain and loading
• Remote control option
Specifications:
• Gain (Line): 16 dB to balanced outputs, 10 dB to single-ended outputs
• Input Impedance: 10 k Ω (per phase)
• Output Impedance: 300 Ω (per phase)
• 18"W x 11.5"D x 6.25"H (main unit); 13"W x 8"D x 3.75"H
(power supply)
• 45 pounds (20kg) (complete unit)
Conceivably the most innovative preamplifier ever designed, the Ayre K-1x
combines singular transparency with unparalleled musicality. Musical
passages emerge with startling dynamics from a silent background, thanks
to the K-1x’s fully-balanced, zero-feedback FET circuitry. Its unique volume
control uses solid-silver contacts in a revolutionary configuration that
eliminates all wiring and takes sonic performance to a new level. The Ayre
K-1x uncovers the soul of music.