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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,967
    edited December 2013
    I think Fred was just yankin' Jessie's chain on that remark. LOL
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,566
    edited December 2013
    Greg, that was a carry over from the Blu-ray Audio thread, http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?155039-Blu-Ray-Pure-Audio/page2
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  • FTGV
    FTGV Posts: 3,649
    edited December 2013
    Smileys not showing in the right place.
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited December 2013
    Ooops. Thanks guys. I totally forgot about that thread actually..... (I guess I need to keep up now! :smile:)
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    My response is: If you need 60 seconds to respond in one sentence, you probably should't be evaluating Polk speakers.....

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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    edited December 2013
    It was the only reason why I sold my jolida. The problem after that was everything I got with sacd I kept compairing it back to the joida. That took me on an a journey to find a tube sacd player that would sound as good as the jolida did on redbook.


    To the op. Unless your going digial like flac files or sacd, with the right tubes, you will have to spend a lot more $ to better the sound. The jolida also is a great traspor and I don't think spending money and a seperate transport through your dac is going to change the sound much if at all. Is there a difference in transports? Yep. When I ran a denon into my w4s dac2 vs the pioneer d9 I had, on redbook the pioneer won hands down. The jolida running through the w4s vs the pioneer, I could not hear a difference. The transport was that solid.
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  • acmf74
    acmf74 Posts: 936
    edited December 2013
    I did some careful listening to the DAC vs the Jolida. So far Jolida is in the lead by far for sound quality.

    I will let the DAC burn in a little more to see how it stacks up.


    PS the the DAC is the PS Audio NuWave.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,967
    edited December 2013
    Do you have the Nuwave on Native ? Same IC'S going from the dac to the pre as you do the Jolida ?
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  • acmf74
    acmf74 Posts: 936
    edited December 2013
    I have tried both native and up-sampling.

    yes.. the same IC's MIT CVT-2s
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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    edited December 2013
    I bet the joida is more warm or musical vs analytic. The dac might be more accurate but the jolida is probably more friendly/musical sounding. It all depends on what kind of sound you like.
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  • acmf74
    acmf74 Posts: 936
    edited December 2013
    erniejade wrote: »
    I bet the joida is more warm or musical vs analytic. The dac might be more accurate but the jolida is probably more friendly/musical sounding. It all depends on what kind of sound you like.

    Exactly.
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  • Obsession18
    Obsession18 Posts: 191
    edited December 2013
    The lead that the Jolida has over the DAC is due in part to the Psvanes tubes acmf74 is using. I was shocked at the improvement the Psvanes made in my JD-100 after I pulled out the stock Chinese tubes. I don't understand why they ship these CD players with those substandard tubes.
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  • acmf74
    acmf74 Posts: 936
    edited December 2013
    Plus the upgraded PC made a positive improvement.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,967
    edited December 2013
    erniejade wrote: »
    I bet the joida is more warm or musical vs analytic. The dac might be more accurate but the jolida is probably more friendly/musical sounding. It all depends on what kind of sound you like.

    That is the sound I like, warm and musical. Digital seems to suck both those characteristics out and lean towards the analytical side. Trick for me is how to combine both worlds together without losing the warm musical aspects. I need a tubed pre amp....bad.
    HT SYSTEM-
    Sony 850c 4k
    Pioneer elite vhx 21
    Sony 4k BRP
    SVS SB-2000
    Polk Sig. 20's
    Polk FX500 surrounds

    Cables-
    Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
    Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
    Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
    Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable

    Kitchen

    Sonos zp90
    Grant Fidelity tube dac
    B&k 1420
    lsi 9's
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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    edited December 2013
    Or a tube dac lol.
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited December 2013
    tonyb wrote: »
    That is the sound I like, warm and musical. Digital seems to suck both those characteristics out and lean towards the analytical side. Trick for me is how to combine both worlds together without losing the warm musical aspects. I need a tubed pre amp....bad.
    erniejade wrote: »
    Or a tube dac lol.

    Or both! :smile:
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    Taken from a recent Audioholics reply regarding "Club Polk" and Polk speakers:
    "I'm yet to hear a Polk speaker that merits more than a sentence and 60 seconds discussion." :\
    My response is: If you need 60 seconds to respond in one sentence, you probably should't be evaluating Polk speakers.....

    "Green leaves reveal the heart spoken Khatru"- Jon Anderson

    "Have A Little Faith! And Everything You'll Face, Will Jump From Out Right On Into Place! Yeah! Take A Little Time! And Everything You'll Find, Will Move From Gloom Right On Into Shine!"- Arthur Lee
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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    edited December 2013
    I have tube pre and a w4s dac2. it is a good combo. My sacd is tube also.
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