Any experience with a Wadia 6?

Hi, hope this is not toooo late ;-)
I am a satisfied owner of a Wadia 6 that's been with me since 1984. It's simply a great player that satisfies my taste. For 16 years, I used it to directly drive my Threshold T1, bi-amped Forte, and bi-amped MF X-A200. I haven't found a player that can better it's performance and reliability (except Wadia's). I now had to run it into a pre-amp because I went back to analogue - still, it is a player to contend with. There are 2 downsides I see: 1. it is definitely old; 2. it has no digital input (which I needed to use a W17 ADC for my analogue source); between those two, it is probably the age that you have to consider. But I must tell you - most other CD, DVD, SACD players sound inferior to this 'old model'.

enjoy!
edgar
from the Philippines

.music is all that matters.

Interesting! the wadia 6 was first released in 1992.

I have an early Wadia 6 I bought 10 years ago. Never any problems. Always used bal connectors direct to the amp. It really does sound best this way. I also have a Wadia 830, which functions very much like the 6 , except that it has the internal dip switches to adjust output to match amp/speaker combinations. The 830 has updated Wadia tehnology and sounds a bit more "open" than the 6, but they are definitely cousins. I'm selling my 830, keeping the 6, in order to give priority to speaker replacement.

I have a Wadia 6 bought in the mid-90s (220 volt) and never had any problems with it. I haven't found the need to upgrade (IMO, it still outperforms many CD players to date), except perhaps to the Wadia 9 itself. It's very well built, at a time when they were less commercial than today.

I listened to their PowerDAC (Wadia 790) once - it has an improved and "cleaner" sound than the 6, but you can definitely hear the same Wadia characteristics.

Its been about four years since I owned a Wadia 6. I had it from 1991 or 1992 to 2000. In that time, it worked flawlessly. In 2000, when I switched to a Sony SCD-1, I noted that the Wadia sounded a bit more polite and less dynamic than the Sony, but it certainly was not creamed by the Sony. I'm sure that in many applications, the Wadia would be preferable to the Sony.