modified jolida 100, mh cd-25, or audio aero prima

What you have are later date 5751 tubes. The two circular grey things you see are mica discs. The strange looking vertical pieces are grey plates.

Earlier (50's and 60's) have three mica discs, and usually black blates. There are early grey plates, but they will still have three micas.

The stock Jolida tubes are relatively clear sounding, and are sweet, but have a flabby bass.

If you have the money, $45/pair, I would get RCA tripple mica black plates. They are very good.

Distortion,

Any more comments on your new CDP? I am curious to hear, no pun intended, of your experience. Thnx!

I love it. I have about 110 hours on it, although some said it would take a while to burn in, I found it very pleasing at about 60 hours.

I have been using EH 12ax7eh's and really like them, vocals are awesom. Decay is sweet. A very black background. Dynamics are acceptable.

I tried some JAN GE 5751's (grey plate?) great dynamics, solid bass, decent vocals, but lost decay sweetnes and definately lost imaging. So back in the EH's went.

I have ordered Some NOS RCA 5751 triple mica black plates, on Muralmans advice, they should be in this weekend. I will come back and give my impression of these as well.

I only have one complaint, the case is a real bugger to open up. Seeing as you have to remove it to change tubes I wish it had been made easier to do. It is thick gauge steel.

The remote is a solid chunk of aluminum with ball bearings for buttons, awesome. FWIW.

Hi,

Just following this thread for a while, listened to Stock jolida, Midrange, sounstage is great for stock unit, The only problem was Bass, today ordered modified one, looking forward to your impression of this player with these new tubes.

Thanks,

Milind

Milind, no one should give final judgement on the Jolida without upgrading tubes, and without breaking in. Your modified Jolida will come with Svetlana tubes. This will give you the impression the mod Jolida is better. Whereas, I can tell you the Svetlanas can be bettered still.

I can't say the Jolida has the last word on bass, compared with solid state. It is a true tube powered unit. Everyone knows tube bass sounds different than solid state.

I enjoy plenty of bass with my stock Jolida, and it is a musical bass.

A friend of mine and I switched out his Telefunken tubes in his Llano amp with black plate 5751 tubes. The black plates sounded more natural.