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| Ayon Audio Forum- all questions and suggestion To be fair to Ayon, Gerhard explained to me when they released the CD-5s around 1 year ago they did not yet have the 24/192 board ready at that time. In fact it needed a further year of development of their own Windows 7 software for the USB drive... | |
| Ayon Audio Forum- all questions and suggestion Gammajo, I discussed this with Gerhard Hirt & he made no mention of any offer from Ayon to offer recent buyers free upgrades. Apparently an upgrade kit is still not available for previous spec units, but will cost.MG | |
| Ayon Audio Forum- all questions and suggestion I received news from Ayon that they are about to start delivering CD-5s units with a new 24/192 USB board. The price of these updated players will go up modestly which is to be expected. At this stage, Ayon are still working on upgrade kits for ex... | |
| Brinkmann Bardo vs Transrotor Fat Bob Reference Hi AQ, the Fat Bob Plus is really excellent, very smooth in operation and as you say it has a stunning musical presentation. Thanks for your further insight into their design. Transrotor have just superior design, engineering & forward thinkin... | |
| Brinkmann Bardo vs Transrotor Fat Bob Reference Well Hiho as they say ignorance is bliss. Enjoy your dd deck.. | |
| Ayon Audio Forum- all questions and suggestion Hi Gammajo, just repeating my reply from another thread fyi..In regard to the metallic "ping" which you hear when you press play on your Ayon, this comes from the 6H30 tube filament and is very normal. Ayon do not use any negative feedback or comp... | |
| Ayon Audio CD-5 versus CD-5s 02-27-12: LeicachampI have heard the KWA-150 set up with a CD-2s as source run single ended into the MW. The speakers were Wilson Benesch ACT's. This combination sounded wonderfully warm & liquid. Very tube-like! I'd definitely go single ended... | |
| Ayon Audio CD-5 versus CD-5s Hi Mn9394, i'm not surprised your CD1s is struggling up against your Lamm amps! It sounds like you're looking for a warm, analogue sounding cdp. My advice is, give most consideration to the dac section, digital inputs and how it handles server bas... | |
| Ayon Audio CD-5 versus CD-5s Denon, i'd agree the preamp section in the CD-5s is good enough to knock off the Ref 3. In regard to your Krell 302, the imput impedance is set very high on xlr & should be benign to even the weakest tube preamps. In regard to the metallic "pi... | |
| Ayon Audio CD-5 versus CD-5s Hi Leicachamp, I asked Dan this very question previously, and this was his response -"Hi, first of all, it is true that the input impedance of our amps is 15K at 50Hz. Our peamps range from 100ohm-300ohn-600ohm and I have driven our amps WELL with... | |
| Ayon Audio CD-5 versus CD-5s 02-26-12: Danielk141,Well I guess it depends on the level of deck we're talking about. The vinyl rig I heard demonstrated this to me was a Transrotor Rondino with an SME-V arm, Miyajima Shilabe cart, Vitus SP-101 phono stage & Siltech Royal Si... | |
| Ayon Audio CD-5 versus CD-5s Hi Antrigrunge,I agree some cd treatments such as Ultrabit Platinum Plus can make a qualitative difference to the sound of cd's, but it's not really arduous; one treatment should last for years of normal use. It's interesting you mentioned your mo... | |
| Best Sounding CD / SACD player under 15K Joe, I read the K-01 retails for $22k (and that was 12 months ago), so you'd be looking pre-owned, and it's unlikely any examples will come up soon, but it looks like an impressive deck. | |
| What Integrated Amps have the sonics of Separates? An old thread, so not sure why it has been exhumed?...but anyway resolution, gain are noise are usually the areas integrated amps fall down vs separates. With that in mind, the only integrated amps which have tempted me to go for a one box solutio... | |
| Best Preamp for Ayon Orthos II monoblocks? Audioman, i'm a bit confused as you remarked earlier that the Orbis is a noticeable improvement and were prepared to put a number on the difference, but you haven't heard the Orbis in your system? FWIW, I think the CD-5s as a cdp is an outstanding... |