What Integrated Amp do You use



        What integrated amp do you use, i picked up a Parasound Hint6 and totally fell in love. This thing is such a perfect all around performer, i was curious as to what other Integrated Amp people where using and why
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I use the very underrated Coda CSIB integrated amp just bought 
3 months ago with VH Audio Adam capacitors
in the preamp section.
for $7 k there is no Integrated out there that that offers so much 
most integrated amps have a 750 va or smaller power transformer 
the Coda 3,000 Va and it’s potted for lowest noise over
80k in capacitance a pure class A preamplifier section 
40 matched  Bipolar transistors on the output and mosfet,fet on the inputs, and a Zburr Brown 100 step electronic volume attenuator ,not a cheap Alps pot that really degrades the sonics but is still used by many mfg  because they are low cost .
Coda made in U.S.A  10 year warranty , great current review in Stereo times and 2020 best of , 3 choices for power output 
I have the lowest in power but highest in pure class A 18 wpc 
150,300,600 wpc .
I use the Exceptional U.S made Coda CSIB integrated amp
it has 3 power choices all doubling down into 2 ohms.the lowest power 150,300,600 has the highest amount of pure class A -18 first watts , these guys are very understated ,stereotimes best of 2020 , and great review.I feel the best integrated in the $10k and under group ,Before Nelson Pass went on his own these were his fellow engineers, the Torroidal transformer is potted for very low noise and huge 3,000 va ,and pure class A preamplifier section,
mosfet,fet, and 40 bipolar transistors on the output section ,     Burr Brown 100 step volume Attenuator  high current 120 Amp capability .
10 year warranty , 5 year transferrable.for $6500 is a heck of a
bargain and sounds very natural .

Hello The Coda is a very smooth but dynamic amplifier 
I have 18 1st watts in pure class A  then 150,8 ohms 300,4 ohms 
I use modded Elac Vela speakers 86 db , and tried on my  brothers 
spatial audio open baffle X3 speakers 97 db efficient as well as Wilson Sabrina X speakers which sounded incredibly good,with Bricasti front end.
and did fabulous in both great microdynamics deep image depth 
and large Soundstaging . And bettered the $10 k Passlams 60 integrated amp , the 3kva gives it incredible current on demand 
my friend drives hisMaggi  3.7 with ease ,all coda can be sent in for any one of 3 power outputs.