Jolida JD100. How good is it?

To reinforce earlier comments, I own a Jolida JD-100 and find it imminently pleasing to listen to. It provides good dynamics, neutral or mid-row perspective, and sweet treble and great musicality. Punchy and pleasing is a good way to describe it. A bargain is another.

You will not regret it. I have the modded version from parts connexion. Extremely musical, warm, detailed, but not analytical or clinical. I hear the modded version improves the bass, but I haven't heard the unmodded player. All I can say,is that I auditioned many, many, players and the Jolida has what I was looking for. Immensely listenable.

A question, if I may, about this tube CDP. Is there any tube 'hiss' whatsoever from it to be heard through the speakers? I've had and heard tube preamps and amps, as the stereotype goes, most of course have rolled off highs and soggy lows, and along with the noise I can't stand to live with them. Are these characteristics also present in a tube CDP, such as the Jolida? Thanks!

Socrates, It all depends on the tubes chosen, and how pliable your speakers are. For example, there are a lot of people that just love Mullards, but in my system I couldn't get past the noise caused by microphonics. So I chose tubes that don't suffer from microphonics. Some ATX tubes roll off the highs, and I stay away from those too. All one has to do is a little research.

The Jolida will not load up on treble transcients, if that is your pleasure. It will not give your cds that etched "high end" sound. It will give a marvelously natural sound that is so real.

The Jolida is a very nice unit. I ended up buying a JD100 after auditioning a Cairn Fog V.2, Musical Fidelity 3.2, Classe .3, and an ARC CD2. The JD100 more than held it's own against any of those players. It has an engaging quality to it. Very easy to listen to. Does many of the audiophile things well but most importantly I find myself just listening to the music instead of anaylizing the 'sound'. You can enhance the quality with tube rollling, interconnects, a high quality power cord, or upgrade it via Parts Connexion (mine does not have the Parts Connexion upgrade). Build quality is surprising. The chassis is rigid, the power supply, transport, and output stages are all physically seperated within the box. The power supply appears to be well done with two transformers. The circuit design is free of cheesy op-amps, even the headphone output is driven by a mosfet and not an op-amp. The remote is a surprise, a stout aluminium affair more like you see from the mega dollar manufacturers. The appearance is at least equal to or better than the $1500-$2000 players. A spectacular bargain but more importantly well engineered, constructed, and a fine sounding player.