Ayon, are there too many ads out there?

Melbguy1, have you owned or actually listened to any Ayon equipment? I have had a Spirit 2 for 5 years, no problems and an enjoyable listen.

Facten, I have owned an Ayon CD-5s for 2 years, opened it up & had my player re-tubed and modded. I have seen Ayon amps on the work bench being repaired. And I was, as I said, given an honest opinion about their amps by a high end audio engineer with over 25 years experience. I might add, I have had more than one A'gon member over the last few years report repeated issues with their amps. Ayon's top model cdp's are their best work. Their amps are kind of dumb when you compare them to well designed tube amps like Audionote or Vac. I'm glad your amp hasn't given you any issues. From what i've heard you can get 9 amps that work fine, and number 10 has repeated problems. If you don't make amps overly complicated, don't use in-house designed software which only one guy knows anything about (who then leaves the company), don't use cheap Chinese boards & don't out-source your labor to China because it's cheaper, you don't get these issues.

Too each his own, but given your critcal view of Ayon suprised you bought one of the CDs versus something else.

Bill K - where in Audiogon are you seeing those USA Tube Audio ads? I got AdBlocker a few weeks back and all the annoying pop up ads have ceased. Curious about the different experience we seem to be having.

They're not pop-up ads, rather an over abundance of product listings for all of their lines which dominate in every category. I suppose that is their intent. https://app.audiogon.com/stores/ch1