For sale is my Ayre CX-7e MP CD player. I've owned it for about 6 years and bought it used. This unit was originally a CX-7 which was sent back to the factory for the MP filter upgrade by the previous owner. Ayre Acoustics CX-7e CD Player and AX-7e Integrated Amplifier. Equipment report. by kudos to Ayre for holding the price on both the CX-7e and AX-7e at $2950, as well as offering an affordable upgrade path for customers who purchased the original versions. The CX-7 upgrade involves a Once Ayre had my unit it took about a week for them to do the upgrade. Since I live about 20 miles from the Ayre facility in Boulder, Co I was fortunate enough to be able to go in person and pick up my upgraded unit. Thanks to Michael at Ayre I was given a tour of their facility while my unit was going through its final checks. Find great deals on eBay for ayre cd. Shop with confidence. Ayre CX-7e CD Player Ser:9M0130 www.2ndhandhifi.co.uk. Unlimited recording storage space. Live TV from 60+ channels. No cable box required. On soundstaging and general plasticity the CX-7e struck me as amongst the best I've yet encountered with CD players. There wasn't even a trace of flatness, fuzziness or diffusion. On Tomahawk's "Cradle Song" the Ayre instead managed to combine the howling wolf and crackling open fire samples with somewhat lost guitar and faint hi-hat into an impressive window onto a different reality. in the March 1996 Stereophile.) So, our views now sharpened by hindsight, these days Stereophile is paying more attention to one-box CD players. Enter the CX-7 Although Ayre's top CD-playing machine is the DVD-based D-1X, which Paul Bolin reviewed in February, the CX-7 is considerably more affordable, at $2950. (The D-1X costs $6000 and up Ayre CX-7 vs. Meridian G08 ? Anyone had the chance to compare these two units? I'm in the market for a new one-box CD player and am leaning towards the Ayre CX-7 unit. Thanks in advance for any input you may have on these two unit