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If you’re looking for a top-quality CD player at this level, ignore the CDi-XR at your peril.

Very much like the i7-XR, the Cyrus CD player is focused on pace, timing, and getting from start to finish with some authority. It’s hard to recall any CD player that has crossed my path over the past 30 years that was as adept in those areas.

This very beautiful integrated amplifier symbolizes in its own way the progress which gives these solid-state models a previously unknown sonic enjoyment, to the exclusion of more ambitious class A models.

Cyrus has carefully and diligently taken their long running recipe and brought it right back into contention and the result comes Highly Recommended. 

What Cyrus has done here is very impressive because this is still unquestionably a Cyrus amp.

Perhaps the most impressive aspect of what the Cyrus can do is that it is able to rival some equivalently priced designs that are analogue input only, while offering connectivity that they cannot match.

The XR series scores highly thanks to fine detail and a new, even higher quality level. A highly musical experience!

If it’s sonic fidelity, excitement and entertainment you came for, well, the Cyrus i9-XR is the amplifier for you.

This amplifier offers excellent sound quality at the price, but in a lovely, small and neat package with excellent build quality.