ayon integrateds--USB input... for what?

Thanks Reubent....Of course, I don't mean to be snobbish by my question I just had not heard of such a thing on anything but very inexpensive equipment. And then, only rarely. For the record, I'm running a Musical Fidelity A5 and love it...so again, no disrespect.

So someone, please validate....if there's a usb port on these things, there's a DAC built in?! Of course, If there is I'd have to try it before removing my stand-alone...but could potentially make the Ayons even more of a bargain.

The only other thing I thought...was maybe USB was a service port...but to service what, they are old school tube amps...

Thanks Guys....I did end up talking with Paul at USA Tube (You are correct, easy guy to talk with)... Turns out it is an onboard DAC but only on that one model....for some reason I got it in my head that it was multiple Ayons that had it. Be curious to know how the dac sounds...but unfortunately not on the upper power models (I have Maggies).

A friend of mine just got an Ayon CD player and is more than pleased...(and he's had some great equipment). I have a feeling that's some really good equipment, in spite of the gushing reviews ; )

Thanks all.

Thanks Guys... an Update...my friend got his Ayon CD player...I listened to it....WOW! Hands down the best cd player I've ever heard...and obviously the DAC circuitry is top notch...smooth but not softened analog sound.

Gammajo...that's good food for though...even though I'm past needing the transport part...getting the pre and a (high quality) dac function in one box...may be a interesting/relatively affordable way to go...would then only need a quality amp.

I'll check back with him tomorrow ...but I believe its the cd2 (not the s)....he's had some really nice stuff in his system including the upper model arc stuff (which sounded good too)...but this one's a whole different league...it sounded so analog like (Yes, I know that's overused...but in this case it's true).

His is a cd-1s.