I owned an Ayon CD5s bought new for 8 years and replaced it about a year ago with a new Ayon CD35. The reason - they sound incredible! In terms of USA Tube service they have always been fine to deal with for me. Examples: 1. Very early with the CD5s there was an intermittent problem, I sent it to them for repair, it came back to me and same problem showed. When I told them this they sent me a brand new unit Fed EX Air arriving in 2 days (While I still had the original one, and me not having requested a new unit) saying it was Ayon's policy that if they attempted to repair once and were not successful, they send a new unit immediately. New unit then worked flawlessly for 8 years. 2. USA has repeatedly sent me excellent tubes and quickly, for free, replaced them for any issue, again before they even got the questionable tubes back to assess. The sales person, Paul has been my contact there and he has always given un-hyped advice, quick call backs and works hard to have you happy. They were even happy to help me sell my CD5s, doing work for free to make sure it was ready for sale. So yes, pay attention to people's feedback here, but with thousands of units sold know that there may be few unfortunate happenings.
Ayon CD transport problems
I have an AYON CD-2S, purchased new 3 years ago. About 6 months out of the 1 year warranty, the transport started to exhibit occasional reading problems.
A CD would be inserted, play for a short or longer while and then play would stop with the display reading LOAD!
This persisted on and off on a rather random basis until yesterday when it happened repeatedly. I turned off the player, let it sit for about 5 minutes and then proceeded to play 3 discs at which point the player would read the disc, start playing, stop, display read load, would read the disc, then the display would read LOAD.......etc. Same issues today.
Contacted AYON USA to find they wanted close to $1000 plus approx. $300 shipping to replace the Phillips transport! When I commented that I had every CD player I had ever bought in the last 30 years and that they all still worked and that I had never had a transport fail............I was told it was bad luck!
Having spent what I consider to be a huge amount of money to purchase the player originally, I feel as if I would be spending good money after bad to get who knows how much or little time out of my player with another transport.
Has anyone else had this type of failure from an AYON or any top loading CD player with a Phillips transport?
A CD would be inserted, play for a short or longer while and then play would stop with the display reading LOAD!
This persisted on and off on a rather random basis until yesterday when it happened repeatedly. I turned off the player, let it sit for about 5 minutes and then proceeded to play 3 discs at which point the player would read the disc, start playing, stop, display read load, would read the disc, then the display would read LOAD.......etc. Same issues today.
Contacted AYON USA to find they wanted close to $1000 plus approx. $300 shipping to replace the Phillips transport! When I commented that I had every CD player I had ever bought in the last 30 years and that they all still worked and that I had never had a transport fail............I was told it was bad luck!
Having spent what I consider to be a huge amount of money to purchase the player originally, I feel as if I would be spending good money after bad to get who knows how much or little time out of my player with another transport.
Has anyone else had this type of failure from an AYON or any top loading CD player with a Phillips transport?
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