Ayon Audio Forum- all questions and suggestion

Hello Audiolabyrinth :-)

Yes, quite surprising to have a so good midrange with 6H30 ! Believe me, when coupled to 845 tubes power amps, it's just incredible !
For my interconnects I have pure silver cables for digital cables (from http://artisansilvercables.com/what.htm ) Impressive cables, same level as Wireworld Platinium but much much cheaper (I have an USB + AES/EBU).
I/C between Ayon CD5 and power amps are Sommercables Galileo 238+, very cheap cable or Mogami 2549, very cheap also, but they do their job :-) This is something I should upgrade, but no idea at the moment. My monos are located closed to the speakers so I would need 1,8m I/C each side. High end cables for this length will be very expensive. Any suggestion is of course welcome :-)

I use the Ayon CD5 directly coupled to Cary CAD 211 AE 845 monos or GamuT M200 MK3 solid states monos. I also use a Mac Book Pro with Pure Music or Audirvana as players with an Alpha USB from Bekerley to convert USB to AES/EBU. All this ends up in the AES input of the Ayon and later flows out of the speakers like hell :-)

@ Melkior,, wow!, you have alot going on there!,, I just persuaded 3 members to go Taralabs cables, they spent money on the used market here and bought new,, They absolutly love these cables and had no regrets!,One of my member friends is waiting on a 5-meter run of the Taralabs 0.8EX I/C to run from pre to mono amps, He put a meter balanced from analog pre-amp to pre-amp and was astonished!,,, depends on what you are willing to spend, I know the Tara house sound very well, so I believe I can give compentent recommendations for that cable brand,,you may want to buy used to get your feel of the sound first,, But I warn you,once you do that, you will want more with no resavations!,, cheers!

Hello :-)

The GamuT M200 MK3 monos arrived this week, they are directly connected to the CD5 with RCAs, and no ground noise at all, even if their imput impedance is 40 KOhms, no tried yet the XLR input (only 20 KOhms) but I'll do it soon.
At the begining I found the sound too powefull at low volume, but after checking the amps gain, it was set up on 35 db, so I set it down to 23 db (internal switch) and everything came back to normal. The CD5 works on the 4V outup gain and I use the volume between -40 to - 20 ( around 1,5V to 3V) it's perfect.
I'll have a glance to Tara Labs cables, thanks for the info :-)

@ melkior,, Have you got your 6h30p-DR tubes yet?, if so, what year did you get?,, cheers!

I bought the 6H30-DR three years ago, sincerely I don't know which year they have been produced, but I can check in the player if some figures are still written on them. Anyway I have to open the unit to put some Reflector 6C4P I should receive soon.
If I remember I bought them to "thetubestore", they had a few ones in stock at this time, price was 160$ per tube. I put them in the player one year ago only.

Bad news for the XLR input of my power amps with the CD5 = strong ground noise. RCA are OK so I'm saved :-)