Originally Posted by
jandl100
I know 3 folks whose ears I trust that rate the valved Jolida DAC very highly.
Personally, I'd recommend a Beresford Bushmaster DAC as well.
In my system the Jolida is the most LP sounding Dac Ive ever heard. Its seen off quite a few other dacs that I have had the pleasure of listening too at home, some of which Ive actually owned, these being
Owned and sold by me at a considerable loss since I brought them all new
Cambridge Dacmagic
M2Tech Young
Audiolab CDQ
Eastern Electric Tube Dac
Borrowed and tried in the system when evaluating the options
Naim nDac
Northstar Essensio
Metrum Octave
Its quite amazing that apart from the Dacmagic the Jolida is the cheapest on the list Ive tried and its the one thats staying, Im no longer looking for a Dac and I no longer spin cd's, all my files are played on a Mac Mini straight into the Dac via a Hiface for coax connection.
Hope this helps
Lee
Vinyl rig 1 - NAS Spacedeck / FR64s / Lab 12 Melto / Denon SUT / Ortofon GM SPU. Vinyl rig 2 Mono Set Up - Lenco GL75 c/w Jelco 750D / AT33 Mono / EAR 834P Modded. Amplifiers - Audio Note Empress Silver / Hattor Passive Pre. Digital - Fanless Mini PC / Lampizator TRP / Linear PSU / Hummingboard Network audio adaptor. Speakers - Horns.pl Mummy's. Cables are Audio Note / Albedo / Furutech Speaker wire. Power conditioner is a Gigawatt PC2 EVO