Audioman, I don't doubt your findings however I think that most owners would not want to depart too far from the warm, rich house sound of their Ayon component. The f/b I received from my audiophile friend was he felt the HFT fuses thinned out the midrange & highs slightly and he ended up going back to the factory fuses. Btw he fitted just 3 HFT fuses initially, but he later fitted all 12 and allowed 50+hrs run in before forming any view. I'm sure Ayon are well aware of the resistance of the factory fuses & they give the sound Gerhard wanted. As for the rectifiers, they are much less critical than the output tubes, but having said that I upgraded mine to NOS matched Russian rectifiers. I don't think the CD-5s/Skylla 2 need tube dampers if you're using a good isolation rack. They already using a well damped chassis & isolation type feet. Your mods might sound good in a system with tube or tube-like power amps, and with sub-optimal isolation, but in that case I would prefer to run a solid state cdp such as Esoteric. Ps: I run Marten Coltrane speakers which are also easily capable of picking up sonic changes.
Ayon cd5-s or Skylla -2 dac. Big improvement
There is 11 steel fuses in the Skylla dac and 12 in the cd5 player
First Synergistic research Big MIGs under the unit are a noticeable upgrade
A good quality aftermarket power cord, plug all open RCA, and xlr openings with the Cardas caps, to block rf noise from entering,
And the biggest by far is replace all the fuses with Hifi tuning Supreme
20mm T fuses yes it is a $500 bill but a small price to pay for
These Silvergold fuses have 8x less resistance vs steel just check the Silver resistance, the level of low level detail , resolution, and stereo separation is Very apparent as well as dynamics being a bit quicker.
If you have invested this much in these units already this is ano brainer
This is possibly better then a cable upgrade and all that steel in
Common fuses is a Huge bottleneck and all that low level hash
Is Gone,clarity you didnot realize was there before. P.s
Ifyou need assistance with values and direction of signal path
Just email me. At audioman58@live.com .
First Synergistic research Big MIGs under the unit are a noticeable upgrade
A good quality aftermarket power cord, plug all open RCA, and xlr openings with the Cardas caps, to block rf noise from entering,
And the biggest by far is replace all the fuses with Hifi tuning Supreme
20mm T fuses yes it is a $500 bill but a small price to pay for
These Silvergold fuses have 8x less resistance vs steel just check the Silver resistance, the level of low level detail , resolution, and stereo separation is Very apparent as well as dynamics being a bit quicker.
If you have invested this much in these units already this is ano brainer
This is possibly better then a cable upgrade and all that steel in
Common fuses is a Huge bottleneck and all that low level hash
Is Gone,clarity you didnot realize was there before. P.s
Ifyou need assistance with values and direction of signal path
Just email me. At audioman58@live.com .
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