Ayre Apparent? Ayre C-5XE

摘要

Boulder, Colorado might be better known in the audiophile community for spawning a series of massive, and massively costly pre/power amplifiers, but it's also home to Ayre with its own, unique slant on all things audio. This C-5xe is a case in point, a £4495 'universal' player, so-called because it will handle all CD (R/RW), DVD (LPCM, Dolby Digital and DTS), DVD-A and SACD media you might care to throw at it. But with one caveat - the C-5xe is a two-channel stereo player only, so it's the two-channel layer of a multichannel disc that gets played. In the event you load a disc with 5.1 channel audio only, then the C-5xe delivers a stereo downmix from both its single-ended and balanced XLR analogue outputs. Did you think 'U2' just referred to an irritatingly popular stadium rock act?