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| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! sim__audio_nerd, Congrats! You are in for a lot of musical pleasure. I would not call the Coda amps as sensitive, but revealing to the quality of power cords and wires you run in your system. The footers that the S5.5 comes with are first rate. ... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Hey vthokie83, Congrats! Both on your vacation and your purchasing the S5,5 amp. Mike Kay is a very close friend of mine and his customers at Audio Archon love to do business with him because he's a straight up guy, carries great lines of equipme... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Hey sim_audio_nerd, You are welcome. I have a great SET 2A3 and 300B tube amplifier, both two chassis AricAudio designs-one of my favorite tube companies, and of course you have to use the right speakers with flea SET amplifiers. However, when us... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Hey riaa_award_collectors_on_facebook, Very interesting. Your statement, "I can't put my finger on anything specific wrong with them, and yet...". My friend's way of trying to explain his discontent was that the music he loved sounded boring and ... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Hey riaa_award_collectors_on_facebook, He had the Vivace MKII mono-blocks, which I heard in his system. I heard one of the single chassis models in my system that someone brought over to compare to my Coda #16 and SPL S1200. Don't remember the mo... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Hey, To be quite honest I believe the AGD amps are good , but very over rated. A dear friend of mine with very good ears bought the hype about the AGD amps and sold off his Coda #8 to buy one. Very quickly he had great regret. As he said it to me... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Hey hanki, I don't know what your front end gear is, analog or digital, but you would get a very different perspective overall on the music if you went from the Luxman amp to the S5.5. You would unlash the potential of your S5's dynamics/alivenes... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Hey hanki, I would love to answer your question, but Coda only sent one S5.5 for review! What are you trying to power that would require a bridged pair of S5.5? Teajay | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Hey sim_audio_nerd, I'm very familiar with your XA30.8 amplifier. Actually your amp and the XA-25 are my favorite amplifiers in the .8 generation of Pass Labs amplifiers. I don't believe that the Coda S5.5 would be a lateral move for the follow... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Hey vthokie83, Congrats, on your AricAudio Motherlode XL preamplifier. I own the Motherlode MKII and its a great line-stage. If you do purchase the Coda S5.5, you will have a killer combo, indeed! I know because I have heard the combo in-house. ... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Hey vinylvalet, Totally agree, most of the Coda pieces that owners are selling don't last to long before they are bought up. Secondly, most of the owners of Coda gear that I communicate with keep their pieces for long periods of time and then mov... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Hey grk, Forget the diagram. When I face the S5.5 head-on the left channel is on the left and the right channel is on the right, like every other amplifier I have in-house (five). Teajay | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Hey ddafoe, I did a review on the Pass Labs X250.8, excellent amplifier, and the bass control on all the Coda amps, including the S5.5, is much better controlled/dynamic because of the loading of 100 amps of current based on their giant power sup... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Hey tuckia08, Remember, for certain people not having meters would be a deal breaker! That's why the meters are an option. I ordered my #16 without meters, because I too I'm not attracted to them. The S5.5 does not have the meters, just a half in... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Hey speedthrills, To be quite frank, Coda does not spend their money either to get reviews in the magazines (the payola is that you have to sign up for very expensive advertising for a period of time) and does not get rooms at great expensive at ... |