hey guys. got my jolida dvd and cd players. they came rather quick for such a long trip from china. i have been playing them now and have about twenty or so hours on them. i was doing a a/b comparison to my long loved pioneer cld704 laserdisc player and all i can say is wow. it's like a layer of muddy, bass heavy, colored midrange with an attenuated treble has been lifted. these jolida's are so much more natural sounding that i am at awe. i listened to my pioneer and compared it to the carver sda-490t and truely,really did not hear any kind of difference. well, that made me kind of weary of getting a new tube player thinking i might just be ordering much of the same. well, that is not the case. best of all, the price is unheard of at 469 and 479 delivered to your door. for those that are in need of a great dvd player in this age of blueray, the 700mkII is great. the only drawbacks that i have, which they at jolida will resolve is that when playing a cd, the output a slight mute/drops for a split second when it changes tracks. the output goes to zero every time the player is turned off, and only is able to be turned up via remote on the tube output section(that is not the case with the digital outputs) everytime. the part that is truely dissapointing is the remote, it is a cheap qeneric type, not at all like the all aluminum one supplied with the 100a or 100se. if those issue's are resolved, i feel that it is a bargian for sure, otherwise i will probably sell the dvd player as i listen to music primarily on it. the dvd part is nice. 5.1 decoder built in, vga output for projectors/monitors, balanced outputs, as well as optical and standard outputs. build quality is rather nice, i think it is more impressive over the 100se for that matter, not that the 100se is a slouch in any case. anyway, the price's are really attractive for such a player with the law suite they have going on with jolida america. they say that they are indeed the original jolida , and that the american distributor is making perfect clones of their products. so with that happening, they are factory direct at the moment with prices at half of the american counterpart. jolida.net is where i went and paid via paypal. just for your consideration guys.
