Mountainsong your comment ''Ayon gear it is hard to beat in many ways including aesthetics and 3D sound''
Everything is subjective of course. I owned a nice Ayon Orion integrated for about a year. Identical family styling genes to the Spirit of course. I liked the design myself. But almost everyone ''non-audiophile'' who ever saw it thought it was pretty ugly. One of my close friends actually called it ''a mini nuclear plant'' ! It IS pretty dominating in a room and does look very industrial and should I say - masculine- in ways as to not be of a very high WAF factor.
I sold the Orion in favor of another integrated, and not because of the looks, but for sonic preferences - but that's another topic of course.
Still, the Ayon is a very nice machine.
Everything is subjective of course. I owned a nice Ayon Orion integrated for about a year. Identical family styling genes to the Spirit of course. I liked the design myself. But almost everyone ''non-audiophile'' who ever saw it thought it was pretty ugly. One of my close friends actually called it ''a mini nuclear plant'' ! It IS pretty dominating in a room and does look very industrial and should I say - masculine- in ways as to not be of a very high WAF factor.
I sold the Orion in favor of another integrated, and not because of the looks, but for sonic preferences - but that's another topic of course.
Still, the Ayon is a very nice machine.