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Jolida JD603
Jolida JD603
MSRP: $ 550.00

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Rating
Reviewed by:
Leonard Rosenblum
(AudioPhile)

Review Date
January 17, 2004

Overall Rating
 2 of 5

Value Rating
 2 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

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Review 1 of 23

Price Paid:  $450.00 from Galen Carol Audio

Summary:
Great Sound while it lasted.

Strengths:
With old stock tubes it was a sonic dream, now I can only tolerate vinyl and DVD-Audio.

Weaknesses:
Lousey build and finally Jolida gave up on repairing it.


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Reviewed by:
manmarlboro
(Audio Enthusiast)

Review Date
March 13, 2002

Overall Rating
 2 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

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Review 2 of 23

Price Paid:  $600.00

Summary:
This is one of the most musical CD players I have had the pleasure to use. It is too bad the reliability is so bad. After 5 months of use my first unit would not open either by remote command nor by pushing the button on the unit. The replacement worked for one hour and the same problem occured. I will return it also and purchase another manufactures product. I have owned many different manufactures CD player over the years and never had an operating problem.

Strengths:
Musical, easy to operate, tube analog stage.

Weaknesses:
Breaks too easily. Jolida apears to have reliability problems with this unit.

Similar Products Used:
Mark Levinson, Sony, Camelot, NAD and Dennon.


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Reviewed by:
Ken
(Audio Enthusiast)

Review Date
November 29, 2001

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
1 to 3 months

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Review 3 of 23

Price Paid:  $400.00

Summary:
So far mine hasn't missed a beat. Has worked flawlessly (knock on wood) The sound is incredible. Beautiful, smooth, almost anolog sounding with incredible detail. Changed the stock Chinese tubes to NOS Sovtek 12AX7 LPS. Gives it a more focused soundstage greater punch in the bottom end. It's to bad that the 603 has so many negitive reviews. I think Jolida got stuck with a bad batch of drives/sensors and most of them are ending up here. I here Jolida is coming out with a new model soon. Lets hope all production quality concerns have been addressed. Any way, I'm very happy with mine. So Far!

Strengths:
Incredible soundstage, smooth smooth sound.

Weaknesses:
Tray and drive a little on the flimsy side, Looks and colour.

Similar Products Used:
Rega Planet, Marantz 6000 OSE, NAD etc.


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Reviewed by:
eric the red
(Audio Enthusiast)

Review Date
November 23, 2001

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
3 months to 1 year

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Review 4 of 23

Price Paid:  $140.00 from Audiogon classifieds

Summary:
Just think of this player as a little finicky and you'll be fine. So it skips every once in awhile on some discs...for the price-who cares? With some 35.00 NOS tubes from Galen Carol Audio, the Jolida smokes all the players listed above that have spent extended time in my system. I would have paid full retail for this player if I wouldn't have found a great deal on one now that I've heard it. If you can find one pre-owned-BUY IT NOW!

Strengths:
SOUND SOUND SOUND!!! RETAIL PRICE IS A BARGAIN FOR THIS SOUND!

Weaknesses:
None for this price-ZERO!

Similar Products Used:
Rega Planet 2000, Classe CDP.5, YBA Special, Rotel RCD 991, AH Tjoeb 99


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Reviewed by:
David Stomackin
(Audiophile)

Review Date
October 18, 2001

Overall Rating
 2 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

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Review 5 of 23

Price Paid:  $500.00 from United Home products

Summary:
In my review of the JD603A I raved about the sound quality and hammered the build quality. The hammer came down even harder shortly after that review was posted.

The deck stopped scanning discs consistently and developed some annoying distortion in both channels that was especially bad through the headphone jacks. These problems made me realize that Jolida hadn't made much progress at all in addressing the quality concerns with this unit and I called United Home Products for return instructions.

UHP was very accommodating and took it back, no questions asked. They did point out that I was the only one of over 35 buyers that was having a problem, but I didn't want a repair or exchange and they have agreed to refund my purchase price.

I found a used CAL Aria Mk. III and I'm back in sonic heaven, but I can't help feeling dissapointed. Jolida wouldn't have to do much to improve the build and function of these decks and they would have a true giant killer. As it is now, I wouldn't recommend anyone purchase one of these. Jolida still has some work to do.

Strengths:
This is a follow up to the review below.

Weaknesses:
Build quality and poor function have sunk this ship.

Similar Products Used:
Now using a CAL Aria Mk. III


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