EXPIRED   For Sale Ayre Acoustics CX-7eMP CD Player

Further Information

Ayre Acoustics CX-7eMP CD Player 

Upgrade kit installed:
M-KU-CX7-TEAC-LOGIC Update Kit, CX-7 Optional TEAC Upgrade w/Logic

Ayre CX-7eMP offers a significant advance in the musical performance of high-fidelity equipment.
The warmth and immediacy of a live performance are apparent from the first listening. The combination of superb resolution and a natural, relaxed quality will draw you into the music, time and time again.

Its sophisticated single-pass 16x digital filter allows the subtle sonic details in your favourite discs to shine through. An exclusive fully-balanced, zero-feedback analog circuit combines breathtaking transparency with beguiling musicality. The fundamental tones that provide music’s foundation are meticulously rendered by the CX-7eMP’s twin massive power transformers; one handles just the digital circuitry; the other the analog.

The Ayre CX-7eMP offers both balanced and single-ended outputs.
The Ayre CX-7eMP features a balanced AES/EBU digital audio output on the rear of the unit.

The digital filter of the Ayre CX-7eMP features two user-selectable algorithms. A selector switch is located on the rear panel. One algorithm produces greater accuracy in the time domain and is labeled “Listen”. The other algorithm produces greater accuracy in the frequency domain and is labeled “Measure”.

The supplied remote control handset can operate both the CX-7eMP CD player as well as an Ayre preamplifier or integrated amplifier.

Features

* Exclusive Ayre “Minimum Phase” digital filter.
* Single-pass 16x oversampling.
* Ultra-linear digital-to-analog converter with differential current outputs.
* Zero-feedback, fully-balanced analog circuitry.
* Separate linear power supplies for both analog and digital circuitry.

Specification

Maximum Output Level:   2.25 V rms – unbalanced outputs / 4.50 V rms – balanced outputs
Frequency Response:   DC - 20 kHz, +/- 0.25 dB
Signal/Noise:  110 dB (unweighted)
Power Consumption:  30 watts
Dimensions:  44 cm x 35 cm x 12 cm
Weight:  11.5 kg

STEREOPHILE's  Robert Deutsch wrote about the Ayre CX-7eMP :

"The Ayre CX-7e was/is an excellent CD player—you don't get into Class A of Stereophile's "Recommended Components" by being anything less. When it came to selecting a reference CD player for myself, I chose the CX-7e because I was impressed with its sound compared to the tweaked combo of transport, upsampler, and DAC I'd been using, and felt that I'd have to spend a lot more money if I wanted a player that would represent an improvement on the CX-7e's sound."

"And yet every familiar CD I played through the CX-7eMP sounded more like live music and less like a recording."

Video of the CX-7eMP CD Player ( not the actual unit on sale here )

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