Ayre Acoustics

Type| Private
Industry| Audio equipment design and manufacturing
Founded| 1993
Founders| Charles Hansen, Peter Bohacek, Katie Lehr
Headquarters| Boulder, Colorado

Area served

| Worldwide
Products| High-end audio processing equipment

Number of employees

| 18[1] (2014)
Website| ayre.com

Ayre Acoustics Inc. is an United States manufacturer of high-performance, high-fidelity audio components and systems co-founded in 1993 by Charles Hansen, Katie Lehr, and Peter Bohacek.[2][3]

The audio output circuitry of the PonoPlayer was designed by engineers at Ayre Acoustics.[4][5]

## References

1. ↑ Lindenstein, Joshua (12 March 2014). "Ayre hears ‘buzz’ from PonoMusic player". BizWest. http://bizwest.com/ayre-hears-buzz-from-ponomusic-player/. Retrieved 20 January 2015. "Ayre Acoustics Inc., an 18-person company that has been quietly doing business in Boulder since 1993, is enjoying its 15 minutes of fame generated this week by the launch of Neil Young’s PonoMusic digital music player."
2. ↑ "About Ayre Acoustics". http://ayre.com/company.htm. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
3. ↑ "Interview with Charles Hansen". https://www.ayre.com/insights/APJ10_Reprint_Ayre.pdf. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
4. ↑ "Ayre and the Pono player". 12 March 2014. http://ayre.com/news/index.php?/archives/24-Ayre-and-the-Pono-player.html. Retrieved 17 January 2015. "This week Neil Young announced the kickstarter program for his soon to be released PonoPlayer proudly acknowledging that the circuit design was done by the R&D team at Ayre Acoustics!"
5. ↑ "Neil Young wants to take high-resolution FLAC audio recordings mainstream with Pono". https://gigaom.com/2014/03/10/neil-young-wants-to-take-high-resolution-flac-audio-recordings-mainstream-with-pono/. Retrieved 17 January 2015. "Last year, Pono announced that it had teamed up with high-end audio company Meridian to produce the player ... in recent months, Pono shifted its focus and actually switched hardware partners, replacing Meridian with Ayre, another high-end audio equipment maker."

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