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Only California Residents May Purchase Ayre Products On Our Site

 

Equally at home as a stand-alone DAC, headphone amp, or digital preamp, the Codex can unlock the potential of any system. A fully-balanced signal path throughout the analog circuitry provides an inherently clean and quiet backdrop for your music. The zero-feedback design maintains all of the pace and rhythm of your favorite artist, rendering your digital music as effortlessly as if it were live.

 

Features

  • USB and Optical (Toslink) inputs
  • Headphone outputs
  • Two 3.5mm mini-phone jacks
  • One ¼” phone jack
  • 3.5mm mini-phone jacks configurable to balanced mode
  • Asynchronous transfer mode for USB input
  • DSD or PCM input over USB
  • Minimum phase digital filter
  • Single-pass 16x oversampling
  • Ayre’s exclusive Diamond output circuit
  • Linear analog AyreLock power supply
  • zero-feedback and fully-balanced discrete circuitry
  • Equilock circuitry for active gain devices

Ayre Acoustics Codex DAC/Headphone Amp/Preamplifier

$1,950.00Price
Quantity
Expected to ship within 3-5 business days from product's arrival to our warehouse.

Output Level
Headphone or Preamp Mode : 7.0 volts balanced, 3.5 volts single-ended
DAC Mode : 4.0 volts balanced, 2.0 volts single-ended

Input
USB : PCM 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, 176.4 kHz, 192 kHz, 352.8 kHz, 384 kHz (up to 24 bits), DSD64, DSD128
Optical input (Toslink)

Dimensions
2.25″W x 9″D x 5.25″H (5.5 cm x 23 cm x 13.7 cm)

Weight
3 pounds (1.4 kg)

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