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But not going to reach any final conclusions yet. I also don't yet have the Teddy Pardo linear power supply, that's shipped separately from Israel.įrustrating, since the DAC sounds great on smaller pieces, if with exaggerated attacks or transients. Unfortunately, I don't have a multichannel preamp to try what John Atkinson did - I'm driving the amps directly.

I'm not going to render final judgment because I want to give the e38 time to burn in, but so far, I'm a bit disappointed - compared to my old e28 Mark II, the soundstaging and detail are much improved, the highs have a more analog quality - no ES9018 grit and glare - but when I push the volume, it sounds like it wants to bite my head off. rather than USB connections, is the way forward.'

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And more detail,' and although the Ayre never overstepped its bounds in that respect, the combination of QX-5 Twenty plus MBL Corona C15 amps and Rockport Avior II speakers 'resulted in a slightly relentless quality,' compelling him to play music 'at a lower level than I'd been used to.' Adding to his system the Ayre KX-5 Twenty preamp and disabling the Ayre DAC's digital volume control ameliorated the forwardness, and contributed to JA's conclusion that 'feeding audio data over my network to the QX-5 with Roon. 'Used in his own domestic system, the Ayre at first impressed JA with its 'etail.

Interestingly but perhaps not surprisingly, Stereophile's observations of the Ayre are similar to my initial reaction to the new DAC: Click to expand.My Exasound e38 mark II arrived this morning, it uses the 9038 Pro, and so does the Ayre QX5 Twenty.

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