Ayre Codex
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
Specifications
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) : Up to 24 bit-192 kHz
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)