I own the JD100 (various NOS tubes, mullards greats many 5751s great, new varieties are probably fine too) and have spent a LOT of time with Sim amps and cd products...
Definitely disagree with the poster who commented above about a tube lover not liking the Sim...(own supratek syrah, have owned bottlehead foreplay, paraSEX, anthem EL34, EE Minimax, MG head, Jolida amps, ah tjoeb, etc) Sim, yes, is a very high energy, detailed, resolved sound... but all in a very good way that makes music very intrigueing to listen to. Very airy. The Jolida sounds very, very good (go un modded, if for resale value alone + going for the mods is a big risk, based on many varied opinions on these forums you may or may not like the change to the sound), but cannot compete with the Sim in many areas such as prat, resolution or neutrality and soundstaging in a high end system. If your system is already thin sounding, I'd go for the Jolida, for the extra body and warmth to the sound. If your system is neatral or borders on the warmer-than-neutral side, def. go for the sim if you can afford it. It is a higher class player.
Note- only sim amps I've worked with are w5 and w6. Both AWESOME amps. Similar signiture to CD players. I have no experience with their preamps or integrated. Actually yeah, I spent some time with the P5. I didn't like it. Maybe their pres aren't as good as their other stuff
Definitely disagree with the poster who commented above about a tube lover not liking the Sim...(own supratek syrah, have owned bottlehead foreplay, paraSEX, anthem EL34, EE Minimax, MG head, Jolida amps, ah tjoeb, etc) Sim, yes, is a very high energy, detailed, resolved sound... but all in a very good way that makes music very intrigueing to listen to. Very airy. The Jolida sounds very, very good (go un modded, if for resale value alone + going for the mods is a big risk, based on many varied opinions on these forums you may or may not like the change to the sound), but cannot compete with the Sim in many areas such as prat, resolution or neutrality and soundstaging in a high end system. If your system is already thin sounding, I'd go for the Jolida, for the extra body and warmth to the sound. If your system is neatral or borders on the warmer-than-neutral side, def. go for the sim if you can afford it. It is a higher class player.
Note- only sim amps I've worked with are w5 and w6. Both AWESOME amps. Similar signiture to CD players. I have no experience with their preamps or integrated. Actually yeah, I spent some time with the P5. I didn't like it. Maybe their pres aren't as good as their other stuff