Ayon Audio Forum- all questions and suggestion

@ Melkior, yes,the compatibility issue, you have to be careful of the impedence matching with Ayon, if you read past post in this thread, you can better understand this,or call u.s.a. tubes, they are good about helping people with their Ayon gear, whatever you use with Ayon, you have to have 50 koms impedence on your amps or better or you will run into this issue, other than that,I would look into your tubes age, and see if any of them may be going out,check the tubes and see if they are working properaly, your player has 8 tubes inside of it, 4 for the output and 4 in the power supply. cheers!

Thanks again :-)

Unfortunately as an old owner of Ayon CD5 I was absolutely not aware of this as I found nothing concerning this issue when I bought the unit..So I bought power amps without checking the impedance value. Anyway I know now how to handle this.
I've found an incredible volume control / preamp, totally transparent which at the same time solve the impedance matching problem, for a ridiculous price (350 euros), it's a SPL Volume 2 :
http://spl.info/produkte/monitor-controller/volume2/beschreibung.html
So in case of noise or too low impedance I just need to put it between the Ayon and the power amps (full XLR)and everything becomes silent, no need anymore to disconnect the ground of the monos power chord.

I Have exchanged the original tube for 6H30-DR, but as suggested I'll put the original ones to check if there's a problem or not (not so hard to find 6H30-DR but real matched pair is an other world).

@ melkior,, I just bought a Ayon 2s,,how long does it take for everything to open up?, the soundstage etc..., I am told these players take along break-in period, 300 to 600 hours! cheers!

Hello :-)

Before the CD5 I had the CD1 (great unit also), both took something like 150-200 hours to open really. Maybe they go on improving after this time but I found that most of the improvements are achieved after 200 hours. The CD5 has Mundorf Supreme Silver oil which are said to need around 200 hours to break in.
300 to 600 hours seems quite a lot, typically the break-in time for some exotic caps but not the Mundorf Supreme.
I guess it depends how fast the capacitors charges and discharges and the number of cycles, according to the kind of music you play.

Any tip to learn the IR codes of the Ayon with an universal remote (I have a Philips Pronto TSU 9600) ? No way to make it work, this is the only one my Pronto can't understand :-(