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jolida issues? first tube amp

this is my first tube amp.
i have been a memeber for a while and a owner of some wonderful proac tablettes for about a year. listening to them on my sony es digital amp. they sound great. all i keep hearing is about tubes tubes... so i purchased a jolida 150 rc hybrid amp. problems. first the speaker post isolator discentgrated, so i sent it in. now the fuse in the back keeps blowing when i plug in the amp w/o anything or speakers connected. when i called about the shipping they said it was ont eh bench being tested- a park bench? spent $100 on shipping and fixing the GD speaker post. now i have to send it back for this. are all of the tube amps this quality? if so i will stick with my mass produced sony. the sound cant be worth all this headache. i cant imagine if i spent over 1k for this.

-pissy
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mwilson
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I (very briefly) owned a Jolida 102b and it was also a piece of junk. Very poor manufacturing - a whole laundry-list of issues, both cosmetic and functional. The worst was the controls - the volume/balance pots made tons of noise, and the unit was only a couple years old. I also had to have the unit repaired. It didn't even sound all that special. A complete and total waste of time.

There's magic to those "tubes tubes tubes", but there are brands at the low end that aren't all that well built. Poor build quality and its resultant problems can take the joy out of the experience.

I'd suggest checking out Quicksilver and Rogue for some very nicely made (and great sounding) tube gear that is still affordable. They're both way out of Jolida's league.
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