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CD harshness and human conditioning (Reply to this comment)
by akshobhyavajra
Thanks for the comments. Jolida products are rather nice for the money. They produce quality push-pull and hybrid designs. I owned one of their integrated models many years ago and enjoyed it.
I suspect most tube amps will "soften" so-called CD harshness by presenting a different sonic signature. All in all humans are "conditioned" to the sound of CDs, that is to say during the transition period of music media in the early 1980ies humans hearing gradually adapted so as to conform to the digital sonic environment which was presented. Thus the sound of digital media, i.e. CDs is not viewed as harsh.
After many years of listening to CDs I returned to vinyl. Every once in a while I listen to one of my CDs after weeks or months of exclusive analog listening and find the harsh sound more obvious.
I still like CDs, of course. They offer advantages of portability, ease of use and a more ergonomic design. To my ears, however, there is nothing better than the synergy of single-ended tubes and analog (vinyl) reproduction.
Happy listening to us all
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Sep 06 '02
7:40 pm PDT
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I am listening (Reply to this comment)
by Horswispr,  in Electronics
to Greg Brown through a Jolida 202 as I write. There really is nothing like tubes. It's the effortlessness that gets me. But the Jolida, and its little brother the 102, in spite of NOT being rolled off in the highs (my old cj MV-50/PV-10 combination WAS), lessens CD hash and harshness for some reason. Thanks for a thorough review of an amplifier with which I was not familiar.
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Sep 06 '02
6:44 pm PDT
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