Ayon Audio Forum- all questions and suggestion

@ Yul11375, Hi, You have had me thinking for hours that I would like to ask your opinions, I would appreciate you thoughts and your help,,Can you elaborate more on the sound differences of the Esoteric k-03 and the Ayon 5s?,, what player has the deeper more impactfull bass?,what player has a full bodied richer sound?,what player has the deeper sound stage?, what player has a bigger sound stage?,what player has better focus and resolving power?,What player sounds more steril and analitical?,what player has the better mid-range, snare drums, vocals, guitars,that are full bloom and realistic sounding, not thin!, full and rich,with full body sound scapes?,, Likly neither player does this!, I still would like to know, I am going to search long and hard for a player to do all these attributes!, they exsist!, I had one!, and it was only $2,800.00, I got a refund on it cause we believed it was shutting my amp into stand by mode at the time, It was not the digital player!, Its gone now, It was a vincent player that bested the ayon 2s in every way imaginable!, go figure!, I want something even better than the mighty vincent player, the vincent was the most musical player i have ever heard, and thats going against players in the $20,000.00 class, so really, cost, when it comes to digital has nothing to do with it!,, cheers.

Hi Audiolabyrinth,

In order to provide my own personal expression more correctly and to avoid prejudicious judgements, I am adjusting my system by experimenting different cables and damping tweaks now. I have about 20 CDs which are considered my testing tunes. To go through all of them I need this whole weekend for a fair conclusion. Please be patience with me.

In terms of tube based CD players, I can sense your sufferings as I had 2 tube based CD players in 15 years. I am lucky enough for not having premature tubes issues.

In brief, if soundstage is your major concern then Ayon CD5s can't show its forte in that category.

Details will be provided later.

They should have provided the dr 6h30 tubes if they are the best. I'm hoping I can tube roll into a bigger soundstage and Better. I will report back after I hear both sets of tubes in my player. I will be trying the eh 6h30 pi gold pins and the 6h30 dr reflectors

@ Yul1375, Hi, thankyou, you are a gentleman, I look forward to your findings and opinions, I am on my 3rd digital payer since april of 2012!,,,unless you bought a 5s used, you will need 500 hours of burn-in to come to conclusions if you bought a new unit, Happy listening.

@ calvinj, Hi, I agree with you 1,000%, As much as the ayon 2s and 5s cost, they should have the better tubes in the player!,, You may know or may not know, you will need 100 hours of burn-in on the tubes you roll into your player!, eany set!, eany tubes need atleast that many hours on any player, you may ask these gentleman If you are not sure of what I am saying is true, I will not be offended, Its always a better feeling to have more opinions, I look forward to your findings as well, please share your experience with us, thankyou calvinj, cheers.