Ayre Acoustics K-1xe PRICE REDUCED $2600

The K-1xe is a fully balanced, zero-feedback design and comes with an outboard power supply. See the photos.
Preamp was serviced within the last 5 years or so by Ayre (can't find the receipt.)  Unit comes with remote and works fine.  There is a small piece of broken rubber on the side of the  connector between the preamp and the power supply,, but if left alone the rubber stays on and the connector works fine.

This is a great pre-amp that has been recently serviced.

The preamp sounds fantastic, but I am downsizing my system.

“To be frank, I want one and I want it bad.”
Ayre K-1xe and V-1xe  –Jason Kennedy, Hi-Fi Choice

“I could have lived gleefully with the K-1xe and any of the amps I had here.”
Ayre Acoustics K-1xe Preamplifier  – Marc Mickelson, SoundStage!

“The K-1x is simply the finest-sounding line-stage preamplifier I've heard in my system, both drawing me into the music and closer to the actual event.”
Soundstage! Reviewers' Choice  – John Leosco, SoundStage!

“Sweet? Lord, yes. Extended? Absolutely. Also authoritative, smooth, and timbrally true. The K-1x is an extremely polished performer…”
K-1x  – Wes Phillips, OnHiFi.com

“…one of an exceedingly small handful of products that seem capable of going about as far into the realm of musicality as we've ever ventured.”
K-1x Follow-up  – Wes Phillips, OnHiFi.com

“The K-1x is the finest solid-state preamplifier that I've heard”
Charles Hansen interview  – Richard Hardesty, Audio Perfectionist Journal