Jadis amps and pre-amps still competitive?

I know that one guy currently at my dealer (Mike O'Keefe) probably sold more Jadis than anyone in the country for many years when he was at Audio Outlet, and he's the guy who sold me my JA80s and my JP200. I'd nominate him, if the dealer is interested in carrying the brand again. But in all honesty, it may take a bit of work, including a good repair facility network, to undo some of the damage done to the brand name in the past few years.

I have a DA8 and i've always thought it was auto bias. If it's NOT, how do i bias it?? I don't see any little screws or terminals for the voltmeter.

Can someone kindly enlighten me?

Thanks.

Eps, to be truthful, when would I bias my Jadis Orchestra
Reference, it never needed as much adjustment as I expected.

In fact, I just switched from Ei KT90 to JJ E34L, and despite the monumental difference in tubes, I was astonished about how close to being in the new tubes actually were. They were just outside of spec (89 mV, range is 95 - 120 mV, preferably 110 mv), which is probably not that big a deal.

Hopefully, Pierre will chime in on biasing.

I would like to offer that if the DA5 uses the same procedure as the JOR, I have created a document, complete with pictures (because they are truly worth a thousand words) on the bias procedure. It's probably six pages, with maybe 8 or so pictures. I would be more than happy to publish it here on Audiogon.

I had received a document from Jadis, but it was not very intuitive. Because I was selling the amp to Springbok10, I wanted to be sure that the procedure was crystal clear (and again, a picture is worth a thousand words).

In my opinion, the biasing itself, once learned (not at all intuitive), is incredibly easy (the pictures make it easy, even for a first timer). The difficulty lies in that you must remove the bottom and sides with the JOR. It's the reassembly that I HATED! Knowing what I know now, I would drill holes (there are already a lot of holes there already) that line up with the resistors and potentiometers, making it a simple, 3 minute procedure. No muss, no fuss.

Hi - Talked to my friend last night who owns a DA5.

He will send instructions to adjust bias at a higher setting shortly, that by the way were provided by Jadis (so no vudu-like mods in this case).

He told me that it is auto-bias and not (????) and the trick resides in some passive controlers within the DA5 circuit (whatever that means...), anyway.. I will get the instructions from him later and will post it for your info.

Fernando

Does anyone know what type and brand of power tubes are stock in current production Defy7's and JA200's?