Ayon Audio Forum- all questions and suggestion


Since there has been quite a bit of questions of upgrades and speaker synergy and tubes, some of us Ayon Owners decided to start a little thread.

Questions of how,what,when and have are all welcome

Have Fun and Be Positve !
sionlim
Experimenting with my dynaudio C1 signatures is been great fun and rewarding. I start with SS system from Audio GD that was amazing for the money. All the detail and good high end stuff one could ask for. After a couple of years and having no experience at all with tubes, I made a choice after much research and comparison between PCM and DSD to get a lampizator 4 DSD DAC and HQ player for my computer. What a surprise, not only I liked DSD better but also the tubes made the sound stage wider taller and deeper, textures, clearer and smoother sound, details and tones that to me sounded more like real live performances. After this dose of tube injection like a junkie I just wanted more. Next I rebuild my computer complete fan-less with linear PSU, Jcat USB card and DSD 512 capable, another big step on the right direction. Then I found a good deal on a used lampizator big 6, major steps forward. Finally I sold my Audio GD system to buy a Ayon Spirit lll generation 4 and never looked back. From the first listening sessions I liked this integrated a lot, but though bass was definitely good it was not near as powerful as the SS gear. Then my journey with tubes and cables rolling began. After I research some NOS tubes and experimenting with it, the sound got moving in the right direction again from top to bottom, better stronger and deeper bass. Now for cables at the time I was using Acoustic Zen Holograms for speakers and Krakatoa for power with great success with SS system. Finally I started messing with cable rolling and wasn’t until I tried some High fidelity cables that I felt the system was rewarding me with great improvements across the spectrum, but it was when I added the High Fidelity CT-1 speaker cables that the low end came to a level I could not believe possible for a cable alone to accomplish . Anyways the Ayon spirit lll is a great integrated amp for the Dynaudios and more, they have enough power and great synergy.
Hi everyone!I have an Ayon Spark ll amp which has two 6c33 power tubes, two 6h30 driver tubes and two 12au7 input tubes.I had two 6n1p tubes and replaced them with 6h30 tubes.I believe after this change, my amp's sound was improved in terms of both power and clarity.I just want to know could it be dangerous for my amp because of this tube replacement?Thanks
Do not recommend Ayon products. I have very bad experience with it (Orion II in repair once a year on average). I don’t know what parts are inside and whete it is assembled, but it does not look good (another Chinese product, just extremely overpriced...?).
Here I have put details of my experience https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/who-owns-ayon-amps so do not want to repeat details.
I could have swore I've seen $40,000 Ayon amps listed here on AG (too lazy to check right now). I would expect VIP service for such high prices.