Cables more hype than value?

I checked the inside of the cd s7 dac and cd a7 on the Vincent website.

there is no evidence that the tubes are hard wired.

I also called a California dealer, who said the tubes are not hard wired.

@ Mrtennis, Hi, Thankyou, looking at the audio visor catalog, they show the tubes with no pins for tube sockets, It clearly shows the tubes with wires coming straight from the bottom of the tubes, It is a pic with the tubes out side of the unit, they have showed this pic many times with the vincent cd-s7 player, I hope you are correct, That would be grand to be able to tube roll the unit my self if I get another vincent player.

@Audiolabyrinth: I will ask my technician, I don't know either.

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@ Mrtennis, Hi, Thankyou, looking at the audio visor catalog, they show the tubes with no pins for tube sockets, It clearly shows the tubes with wires coming straight from the bottom of the tubes, It is a pic with the tubes out side of the unit,"

Definitely check with Vincent first, but I'm almost certain you're talking about a tube that hasn't been terminated (terminated may not be the proper word for it). But if its a bunch of solid core wires that come out of the bottom of the tube, they get snipped off. After that they put the plastic housing over the bottom of the raw wires. The housing has the key way and the pins that actually go into the tube socket. I think they are showing you a picture of a tube before its finished being made.

@ Zd542, Hi,The pics are decieving!, Had me fooled!, I hope you are correct, it seems I am in the market for another player if Paul of usa tubes is seriously going to give me a full refund for my Ayon cd-2s player?, I may have to buy another vincent to have a player now, versus having what I want in the spring, the vincent player I had thus far was the most musical player I have ever heard!, not the clearest with analitical detail that people love these days, just darn right real sounding, way more enjoyable than Ayon digital, 12au7, 12ax7 tubes that are in the vincent versus 6h30 tubes that are in the Ayon, who knows, I suppose I might move forward and look for a Esoteric K-03 used to, what are your impresseions of the K-line Esoteric players?