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This fairly small but substantial box 203 x 178 x 76 mm, 3. Jolida fx dac with modwright cap upgrades trade news. The dac comes complete with the original doublebox packaging, power cable, manual and sovtek valves. This unit will maintain the purity of your digital sound with the latest in chip technology, galvanic isolation, and a circuit design giving you the smooth and rich analog sound only vacuum tubes can deliver. For sale jolida glass fx tube dac iii mk 3 with upgraded. I needed a nice dac to connect my laptop to my stereo. South chinabased driver manufacturer markaudio loudspeakers. On removing the amp from its sturdy packaging, i was impressed by its solid feel and fine build quality. A 24 bit player with a zippy quick remote and the ability to hook up to my jolida dac. Amazing performance and gorgeous looks shouldnt be this affordable. This is part 3 of my investigation of the black ice audio range of tube based components. It was a dac even a hardened vinyl lover could embrace.
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Jolida black ice integrated tube amp fusion 3502 wel34 tubes. Jolidas fx tube dac dsd anddsd wifi are the latest models of our best selling dacs. An update to jolida s innovate fx tube dac, fx tube dac has modern digital features with an oldschool tube analog output stage. The glass tube dac has the same footprint as the fx10 amp, measuring 8 w x 3 h x 7 d and weighing only 6. Jolida glass fx dac digital to analog converters audio. Jul 27, 2016 rarely available in the uk and a reluctant sale, but its time to move my jolida glass fx tube dac iii on. Replace resistors and add a resistor array to the input and driver. The fx tube dac iii allows you to convert your digital files via spdif, toslink, and usb using the newest burr brown dac chipsets, and then sends its allanalog waveform through a pair of 12ax7 tubes for the sound all analog lovers. Lampizator level 3 gen 4 versus jolida glass fx dac ii page 2. We stand by all of our products, striving to give you the optimal sound stage environment with quality tube amplification products. After digging around, there were a few places for a while that offered some upgrades t. If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the faq by clicking the link above. Jolida sj502a home audio stereo kt88 tube monster amp demo duration. Jolida repairs, jolida upgrades, jolida audio equipment, jolida.