Archives: Reviews

“A very well equipped preamplifier that leaves nothing to be desired and just lets music be music. This is how high-end works!”

“The new Cyrus Pre-XR is demonstrably an audiophile space miracle. It competes as a preamplifier, but in the half-width housing there is also a DAC, a phono stage and a headphone amp. In terms of sound, quality and character, Cyrus has retained its trademarks – and yet done everything differently…”

“The Cyrus CDi-XR is great at reproducing the smallest dynamic transients, perfectly accentuating individual sounds and showing the speed of their attack. This player also has the ability to perfectly differentiate microdynamics, giving the listener the ability to track differences in speed and dynamic accents of individual sounds and instruments. All this makes us perceive the music as full of life, adding adrenaline to the listening experience.”

“It is very exceptional for small system shows an ideal soundstage. The music instruments are neat and organized. Openness, directness and main images served up close personal are the great music presentation from CYRUS.”

“The sound has a texture, not particularly strong, and there is no obvious warm sound orientation, just good enough. The hall sound is the same, enough is good enough to bring you a sense of openness, while listening to the huge venue without affecting other frequency range, nor pursuing gorgeous, beautiful, it sounds like that you are listening to the “reality”.”

“The CDi XR is dynamically agile and tonally very finely balanced. It delivers a vivid, precise and wide soundstage. Its performance is filled as much with tension as it is with sophistication.”

“Listening to it in combination with CDi-XR is a real joy. Everything is right: imaging, dynamics, fine details, etc.”

New Cyrus XR series products come into the market with high expectations. Maintaining the usual compact design of the British manufacturer and at the same time moving into the high-end category of integrated amplifiers and CD players was a technical challenge. The ten years of development work has paid off – the result speaks for itself!”

I’m bound to say I am enjoying the i9-XR, and it is clearly an accurate, agile, and punchy little thing and it is driving the speakers along with gusto.