Ayre Acoustics AX-7 Brochure

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AX-7

integrated amplifier

“This beautifully made integrated has an amazing
dimensionality, openness, image specificity, and transparency
that rival much more expensive separates.”

“Brilliant.”

 – 2003 Recommended Products Editors Choice,

 The Absolute Sound

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“…this amplifier was unfailingly musical, enjoyable, and engaging.”

   – Robert Harley, The Absolute Sound

“It was brilliant. Amazing. Stirring even. It was some of the best
sounding, most compelling music-making I’ve heard at home.”

   – Art Dudley, Stereophile

The Ayre AX-7 integrated amplifier combines sophisticated control

functions with a dynamic output section in a single sleek chassis.

But don’t let its compact size fool you—it delivers all of music’s

drama and excitement, employing the same exclusive zero-feedback

design found in our reference products. Extremely flexible, the AX-7

offers true balanced inputs and full remote control capabilities. Its

custom-designed volume control features FET switches and precision

metal-film resistors to ensure total purity of sound. The Ayre AX-7

removes the last veil between you and music’s magic.

AX-7 integrated amplifier

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Features:

• Zero feedback, fully balanced circuitry

• 66-step volume control, each of 1.0 dB

• Four inputs: two balanced, two single-ended

• Eight high-current output devices per channel

• Proprietary volume control with FET switches & metal film resistors

• Control microprocessor is turned off except when executing a command

• “Theater” mode for use with surround-sound processors is assignable
to any input, allowing use with balanced or single-ended processors

Specifications:

• 60 watts continuous per channel (8 ohm load)
120 watts continuous per channel (4 ohm load)

• Power Consumption: 20 watts in standby mode;
70 watts in operating mode, no signal

• Frequency Response: 2 Hz – 200 kHz

• Input Impedance: 20 kΩ (per phase)

• 17.25"W x 12.3"D x 4.75"H

• 26 pounds (12 kg)

www.ayre.com

Ayre Acoustics, Inc. 2300 B Central Avenue
Boulder, Colorado 80301 303 442.7300 303 442.7301 fax

The heart and soul of music and film reproduction.

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