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Unlock the full potential of your digital music with the Ayre Codex. Drawing on Ayre's decades of high-end audio innovation, the Codex is a compact, versatile component that performs equally brilliantly as a world-class DAC, a powerful headphone amplifier, and a pristine digital preamplifier.

Engineered with Ayre's signature commitment to sonic purity, the Codex delivers a rich, musical, and effortlessly natural sound that will transform your listening experience.

Key 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
• Fully-balanced discrete circuitry
• Equilock circuitry for active gain devices

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Designed for complete flexibility and unrivalled musical expression, the Rossini APEX DAC features dCS' pioneering Digital Processing Platform, a high-performance UPnP streamer and the latest generation dCS Ring DAC APEX.

Key Features:

• Latest generation dCS Digital Processing Platform brings state-of-the-art signal processing and flexibility
• dCS Ring DAC APEX, as used in Vivaldi playback system, delivers enhanced sonic and technical performance
• High quality streaming from TIDAL, Qobuz, Deezer and internet radio via the dCS Mosaic Control app
• Roon Ready, AirPlay, Spotify Connect and UPnP compatible
• USB, AES, Dual AES and S/PDIF digital audio inputs.
• Accepts encrypted SACD data from dCS Transport via Dual AES inputs
• Multi-stage DXD oversampling design with optional DSD upsampling; user-selectable DSP and DSD filters.
• Auto clocking system improves ease of use and minimises jitter.
• Multi-stage power regulation and twin mains transformers isolate analogue, digital and clock circuitry.
• Firmware-upgradeable for future functionality and performance upgrades.
• Features a full MQA™ decoder. This MQA™ implementation is unique, as it is the first opportunity to enable a DAC which, by providing exact rendering to beyond 16x (768 kHz), matches the desired temporal response with very low modulation noise.