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REVIEW: Jolida Tuner 601 Tuner Review by Dave L at Audio Asylum

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This diminuative Jolida tuner is based upon a Denon SS chassis. It does share performance with some of the middle of the road Denon tuners. The exception is that with the tube stage, this tuner does have a slightly warmer midrange. For it's price class, it has a satisfactory low bass and instrument separation.
It's selectivity and sensitivity were fair, not great with a variety of input antenna that included standard wire dipole, rabbit ears, and a Terk pro. It clearly did not have the selectivity or sensitivity of a $399-$499 Yamaha or Onkyo. Sound quality was very good for it's price on a strong signal.
Classical and jazz fm stations were pleasent, and were less sterile than most sub $400 ss, but I was never at a point where I considered this tuner more than "decent entry level tube ".
My biggest complaint: it is smaller than a standard component. It looks like a cheap rack-system toy. It would not look good next to your other components. If it was a normal size, yet spartan I could forgive it. It gets LOW marks for looking like a tinkertoy.
If I was asked to recommend this I'd have to say no. It really does not perform as well as it's slightly more expensive SS counterparts, and it looks....well...terrible.
For $350 it is better than mediocre sounding, you could do worse in that area, but performance and looks wise it gets handily defeated by a number of tuners in the same price range.
If you have a cable/fm signal or a strong set of stations to listen to it's not so much of a factor. Musically, I can recommend it for an entry level tube system.


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Topic - REVIEW: Jolida Tuner 601 Tuner Review by Dave L at Audio Asylum - Dave L 10:29:08 11/17/99 ( 0)