A few years back I purchased a Jolida 202 amp EL34 tubes 40W pc. Once the amp was broken in I thought it was incredible. Soundstage was huge but most important was that I felt the sounds became real, I felt like the voices and the instruments were in the room with me. I have owned/listened to B&W 800's, 803's, 805's on Rotel and Macintosh solid state, also Magnepan's, $50,000 Magico speakers, sonus faber and paradigm on solid state as well as others. I thought my little $1000 40w jolida with $1000 paradigm studio 20 speakers sounded overall more realistic than all these others with solid state amps driving. The $50,000 magico speakers even sounded harsh in the higher frequencies??? For 50K no way!!! Tubes are easy on the ears.
So here are my questions:
1. Why does the high end community seem to ignore and/or dislike tubes so much?
2. I know jolida does have some build quality issues but I think the sound is incredible and watt for watt they seem to be unmatched in price for tubes. A prima luna with comparable wattage output will run almost twice the price sometimes more. Why has Jolida been so ignored in audiophile world?
If anyone can enlighten me?
Thanks
So here are my questions:
1. Why does the high end community seem to ignore and/or dislike tubes so much?
2. I know jolida does have some build quality issues but I think the sound is incredible and watt for watt they seem to be unmatched in price for tubes. A prima luna with comparable wattage output will run almost twice the price sometimes more. Why has Jolida been so ignored in audiophile world?
If anyone can enlighten me?
Thanks