Price: $8950
Website: www.ayre.com
Aron said: The KX-5 Twenty strives for purity of sound through purity of signal, and emphasizes that the first step toward true transparency is silence. The levels of build quality, and the close attention paid to selection and implementation of parts and materials, have resulted in what I consider to be the industry benchmark in solid-state preamplification for less than $10,000.
Read the SoundStage! Ultra review.
The gist: Ayre hits another one out of the park.