Hi, everybody. I have a question - is it my bad luck or it is the way with Ayon gear, CD5s in particular - The amount of noise I am getting caused some serious sleep deprivation on my part. First, I was shocked in the good way - running it directly to my VAC Phi200 , balanced and as CD player. Silent as a tomb. Hit play- this infamous ping ( fine with me, well explained phenomenon in the manuals) - and then pretty loud tube rush hissing and my seating distance is Three And A half Meters! And I thought my Aesthetix Janus was noisy! Comparing with what I am getting from Ayon , it is practically undetectable ( unless you are about one ft from the speaker). Same with both analog inputs, as well as USB input. Noise, noise, noise!!! Plus some unfortunate groundloop humming, not strong, but still there. Well, I forgot about these unpleasantries long time ago and didn't have any ground hum issues in my system and it is new to me and very upsetting,
Im gonna try tomorrow with RCA outputs directly to amp again, but , honestly, don't know what to expect. Ok, sorry for the long story. my question is this - is it how it is with Ayon or something's wrong with my unit/ setup/ amp input impedance/ etc? I have BIG hope that it's latter and fixable. Bad tubes, may be? One of the reviews mentioned something like" music playing from the blackest background" or " the unit was dead quiet" and such, in other words, obviously, the reviewer meant that there were no issues with tube rush hissing, ground loop humming, etc whatsoever... Unit is about 2rs old and in perfect condition ... I'd greatly appreciate your help, guys...
