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Sad news for fans of the Wadia:

""...As you all know, the Wadia brand enjoys “legacy status” as one of the founding firms that pioneered high-performance digital audio over twenty five years ago - and how times have changed since then. Clearly a move away from music bring stored on optical media is happening today and Wadia’s future products will embrace this new market reality. Simply stated, the current product category of CD players, can no longer sustain growth in any meaningful way. Consequently, Wadia will cease manufacture immediately of the 381/381i and S7i CD players, 571 CD Transport and 521 Decoding Computer. These products are now officially discontinued. Please note that there is limited inventory remaining of these models and these will be made available to our dealer are a first come first serve basis. Additionally, the parts and service warranty on these discontinued models will be honored. Remaining models that will continue to be available going forward include the 121 Decoding Computer, 151 Power DAC Mini and of course, Intuition 01.
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chris10an
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marakanetz
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Mallen123,
Even if Esoteric is more expensive than most of Wadia, it doesn't mean that these prices make sense. They all don't at least to me and I guess to many more. Otherwise, Wadia would've been sold out instead of going out of business alas from McIntosh for instance.
If Wadia beats Oppo, than I'm sure and I know that there are many CD players that beat Wadia or perform to the same level at substantially lower cost...
zd542
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"Wadia is not going out of business, but rather, are going to discontinue the 381/381i and S7i CD players, 571 CD Transport and 521 Decoding Computer and are going forward with the 121 Decoding Computer, 151 Power DAC Mini and Intuition 01.

Lets get the facts straight."

Sorry. I failed to mention Wadia is still making the stuff they don't make and is just discontinuing the stuff they do make. I've been a Wadia customer for many years. Its easy to get confused.
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ajay555
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I demoed the Wadia intuition with the new Sonus faber Olympia III speakers. The music sucked me in right away...very musical and tube sounding..I only spent 10 minutes with the system. I personally own 300B monoblocks, very expensive tube preamp and expensive cables...
But the wadia/faber was more musical...
I am confused what is the deal...how can that be? Anyone experience it too..?
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audiolabyrinth
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@ Ajay555, Hi, What is the wadia intuition?, Is it a media player?, does this product have a volume control like past wadia componets?, thanks in advance.
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bombaywalla
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Audiolabyrinth,
the Wadia Intuition is a (digital) amplifier meaning that it can directly accept a digital signal from a source. It has a built-in DAC & a class-D power amplifier. Yes, volume control is included as well. I heard one at RMAF2013 - it sounded very good indeed. I cannot make the same comment as Ajay555 as it was a show condition & playing music that I not familiar with. Nevertheless the sonics were very good - I enjoyed my stay in that room.
You can read more here:
http://www.wadia.com/en-us/products/intuition-01
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