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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?


nedman52
nedman52 OP
6 posts
 
My gut feeling is that it may be an issue related to the amount of heat generated by the 4-6H30 tubes. The player gets very hot when it is used. The Phillips transport is supposed to be one of the best and is used by many other manufacturers.

I have put a whisper fan on my player to try to draw away heat more quickly.

As to the soft audio start on some discs, my player does that as well. If you hit reverse on the remote, it will in fact give you the whole beginning without missing a beat.

I have no idea why this is the case but my Astell&Kern AK120 does exactly the same thing with FLAC files!
Obviously someone in design thinks this is a good idea.
jafant's avatar
jafant
10,525 posts
 
Thanks! for sharing- guys.
It is imperative to share both positive & negative experiences when dealing w/ these companies, especially, service/repairs.

Dealers/retailers fall into this topic as well.  Happy Listening!
nedman52 OP
6 posts
 
To answer an earlier question as to why buy Ayon...my CD 2S, although problematic, sounds incredibly musical. That's why I opted to have it fixed.

Glad I did. Enjoy the music!
salva66
6 posts
 
Let's keep last Ned's message as a conclusion to this subject!!!
lexphin
22 posts
 

Agree with Nedman52. While problematic, the CD2S is incredibly musical, although my analog front end betters it by far. Originally I thought I was the only misfortunate one having trouble with the Phillips drive. My dealer, whom I trust implicitly, said he sold many CD2S`s as well as CD5`s, and no one else had an issue. I thought, maybe I`m doing something incorrectly? In a strange way, I now feel validated after seeing others had problems, though I don`t wish trouble on others. Done rambling for now.

Happy listening.

Going to spin some vinyl! Yeah!

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