Ayon Audio Forum- all questions and suggestion

@ Melkior, Thanyou for the very informative answer!, very good explaination, Do you believe the Dr tubes are worth the up-grade for $275.00 a tube x 4??, cheers!

Quite cheap for a 6H30DR quad ! If you can afford I think you will be granted for your investment :-)

I don't know how long you have been living with the Ayon, but to enjoy better the DR tubes benefit, you should maybe live enough time with the original tubes in order to have your ears used to its sound, and be sure everything is broken in. Then you switch to DR tubes and listen to several pieces of music you think you know by heart. Then see what happen.. :-)
If you hear things you did not noticed previously or if something surprise you, a detail in the background, a voice more sensual, you're on the right way !
When I bought my DR's I wait several months before switching (Ok I was a bit lazy..) and then I appreciate them a lot. If you starts with, you'll never know where they are better.

@ melkior,, I will take your advice, I have close to 300 hrs of burn-in time now with the new Ayon 2s, It sounds to me like the unit may need 400 hrs to do the trick,,running the player direct to amp like I do, the player is not running full signal, the tubes do not get as hot, so to radify this, I will be turning the amp off and play the Ayon at full volume-signal to get the tubes as hot as they can get to help the burn-in process,, I will take the time, as you said, to get to know the player, then change out the stock tubes,, let me know what year of the 6h30p-Dr tubes you have?,, Thankyou, always a joy to talk to you!, cheers!

@ Melkior, My Ayon cd-2s sounds really good now!, I believe 300 hrs will have most of the burn-in done!, Does the nos 6h30p-DR tubes have this fleshing out sound like these stock tubes?, I did not know a 6h30 tube would do that like 12ax7 and 12au7 tubes Do!!, cheers!

Hello Audiolabyrinth :-)

I was not aware that 6H30 DR could sound as 12AX7 or 12AU7 when I bought the Ayon. I had a small stock of NOS 12AX7 and 12AU7 in the past, and was pleased to play with them. According to my experience I would say 6H30 are better for soundstage and micro dynamics, but not so much for sound, I think they are more neutral. But when very well optimized like in the Ayon, yes it looks like other NOS preamp tubes :-)

I received at last my Russian 6C4P, so I could open the Ayon to replace the chineese ones. I Checked on the 6H30 DR tubes and found 9106 and 9107, so I guess they are from 1991. I think the production stopped in 1992-93 and started again in 1999 but not with the same quality. I found strange that only the date is written in black when other inscriptions are white on the tube. They are real 6H30-DR but sincerely I'm suspicious about the date.
Anyway they sound fine :-)