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Australian Hi-Fi

Ayre Acoustics C-5xe

Universal Player

Brand: Ayre Acoustics

Model: C-5xe

Category: Universal Player

RRP: $13,000

Distributor: Advance Audio Pty Ltd

Address: Unit 8, 509–529 Parramatta Road

Leichhardt

NSW 2040

T: (02) 9560 4855

F: (02) 9569 1085

E: sales@advanceaudio.com.au

W: www.advanceaudio.com.au

• Superb build

• Switchable ﬁ lters

• Great sound

• Fiddly operation

• MP3 navigation

• CD/SACD volume

cups. The ﬁ rst and most easily ﬁ xable of these

is simply that the DIP switches are recessed too

deeply inside the casing to make them easily

accessible. My problem was that I was hav-

ing to switch them back and forth relatively

often as a part of the necessarily-intensive re-

view process. Ayre would no doubt argue that

since for most users setting the DIP switches

will be a ‘set once and then forget’ operation,

it’s a safer option to make them less accessi-

ble. A second problem turned out to be down

to me not taking the time to read the manual,

because I complained that the sample-rate

switch on my sample was intermittent and

therefore possibly faulty. It turned out that

the unit has to be switched on, but without

a disc playing, before the switch will work as

designed, otherwise there’s a ‘state mismatch’

that disables the digital output entirely and

requires a complete power-down/power-up to

reset. My next hiccup came when it came to

navigating DVD-A menus using the C-5xe’s

front panel display. In theory, it’s quite sim-

ple: all you have to do is load a DVD-A, then

press use the ‘Previous’ and ‘Next’ controls on

the outer ring to play each group in turn, and

when you get to the one that has the high-

est sampling rate, play that one (and, while

you’re at it, make a Texta note of it on the

DVD-A cover!). However, if a disc has two

different groups recorded at the same sam-

pling rate, there is really no way to tell which

is which without leaping on the Internet or

ﬁ ring the disc up and working out which

sounds the best. Also, once you have started

playing a group, you can’t just switch to the

other: you have to stop play then skip. And,

if you accidentally skip forward a group, you

can’t change your mind and skip backwards,

you ﬁ rst have to press ‘Stop’ then skip back-

wards. Like I said, it’s ﬁ ddly. Luckily, working

out the correct group will be a ‘one-time only’

process, after which you’ll be able to use your

‘Texta-ed’ note on the back of the DVD cover

to go to the correct group instantly. CDs and

SACDs play perfectly except that you can’t

program CDs to play back in a speciﬁ c order

and you can’t use the ‘Random’ play mode

when playing back SACDs. For the record

only, it also is not easy to navigate through

discs ﬁ lled with MP3 ﬁ les because the Ayre

can navigate through folders only in set or-

der, and you can only switch from one folder

to another when you’re actually playing (or

are paused) in the ﬁ rst or last track in a folder.

Was I worried about this? Not particularly, be-

cause my view is that anyone found guilty of

using an Ayre C-5xe to play MP3s should be

taken out at dawn and summarily executed.

You realise that all the trouble of marking

your DVD-As with Texta has been worth it

when you ﬁ nally get around to playing them

through the C-5xe. Once you have heard the

sound through the Ayre, you will never go

back to listening through your DVD player,

even though this means foregoing the visual

standard, with Ayre using XLR connectors

for balanced output and gold-plated RCA for

unbalanced. However, Ayre also uses an XLR

connector for its digital output. Although this

is quite standard on professional audio equip-

ment, it’s rare on consumer equipment, so if

you want to use the digital output, you will

need to invest in the requisite adaptor (XLR

to RCA or XLR to BNC). A small DIP switch

alongside the XLR digital output lets you

switch the output off if it’s not required. A

second switch immediately alongside labelled

44/48kHz ensures discs recorded at higher

sampling rates will be downsampled to either

44.1kHz or 48kHz. Setting the switch to its

other position (88/96kHz) will allow high-

sample-rate discs to output directly, but

will downsample 176.4 or 192kHz discs to

88.2kHz or 96kHz.

Further along on the rear panel is a four-

pole DIP switch, though only two of the four

switches are used. One switch selects between

two different algorithms programmed into

the Ayre C-5xe’s digital output ﬁ lter. The one

labelled ‘DF Listen’ (the ‘DF’ standing for

Digital Filter) uses the algorithm whose time

domain accuracy is better than its accuracy

in the frequency domain. The other ‘DF Mea-

sure’ has a more accurate frequency response,

but a less accurate time response. The other

switch selects whether the C-5xe responds to

remote commands from the infra-red remote

control (IR Receiver) or to remote commands

input via the six-pin control port on the rear

panel. This allows you to control the C-5xe

from a Crestron or AMX controller. Unlike

most such ports, the Ayre’s port is decoupled

using opto-isolators, so no noise can creep in.

Also unlike many companies, Ayre provides

Crestron (and Pronto) command ﬁ les on re-

quest—and promptly!

In Use & Performance

When it actually came to setting up and using

the C-5xe, I experienced quite a few little hic-

“when SACD is good, it is very, very good, and

when you hear it played back on a player such

as the Ayre C-X5e, it’s exquisite.”

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