Article: Review | Ayre Acoustics QB-9 Twenty

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Ayre's ethos of supporting and upgrading existing products "forever" is a huge benefit to its customers worldwide. 

Indeed! 
Nice review! OK, maybe I’m biased 😬 

 

Edit: streaming Qobuz Barn album thru my QB-9 Twenty now - wow! Thanks for the album recommend.

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On the music side of things, I was never a fan of Bruce, but my wife was getting very enthusiastic when I streamed the Barn tracks from Qobuz

 

Some of my college friends were into Springsteen but I was, like, meh. Then about 20 years ago I picked up the Woody Guthrie tribute “til we outnumber them”. Springsteen performs a couple of the tracks. I thought “wow, this guy is far more talented than I ever gave him credit.” I might buy the file for the barn album rather than just rent it from Qobuz.

 

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I hope you had the chance to also experience the long period over which the Twenty evolved from "great" to "better than great" 

 

Also curious if Mr. Connaker experienced this. Fresh off the cold UPS truck in December my unit sounded vaguely rough out of the box even if it was immediately apparent that it bettered the DSD version in most every way. I thought it was mostly settled after 100-200 hours but it seemed like I heard subtle improvements even after 500 hours.

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On 8/15/2020 at 11:01 PM, R@F said:

Not yet broken in . . .   Don't know if it will get better after a few (or hundreds) hours, but it could stop there!  

Several of us reported improvements even past 500 hours.

Enjoy!