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| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! laginz, Sorry I seemed to have missed your post. Currently with the Denafrips Hades preamp > CODA S5.5 > Clayton Shaw Caladans, the soundstage is more similar to what I would consider a live performance. Soundstage is outside of the speaker... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! +1 for speaking with Mike Kay at Audio Archon. He's a great guy to talk audio with, and he carries some high end brands including CODA and Harbeth. What was really helpful to me personally, was that Mike is friendly with Aric Kimball of Aric Audi... | |
| What do you like to see included in a manufacturer's website? Large high quality high resolution color pictures (your current site does not do this), make the site attractive (not black and white), site organized by product type (amp, preamp, speakers, etc) not by class (gold series, premier series, etc), pr... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Let us know your thoughts when you receive it....would love to hear your impressions | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Congrats Fred, welcome to the club; you're going to love it. | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! I have no personal experience with the Serene or the MicroZOTL (though I considered it), but the Rhumba Extreme 1.4 is the real deal. In the end I chose the Aric Audio Motherlode XL, but it was not an easy decision....it's really good. | |
| Anyone else order Caladans from Clayton Shaw? I'm not sure how the invoice numbers work, I'm not positive there is a correlation. I ordered on 11/1/2023 with Invoice #179, and received SN 00023. It was hard for me to be patient, but in the end I have an amazing pair of speakers for what I co... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! tmac1700, The inputs to the CODA S5.5 is what we are discussing. The RCA unbalanced 50K ohms are no issue, it is the 10K ohms on the XLR inputs. It was not a big deal really, I believe Aric is adding a couple of 1.0 uf caps.....maybe another chan... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! minatophase3, I am currently using a Denafrips Hades preamp, which surprisingly has not been a bad combo with the CODA S5.5. I initially thought it would be totally outclassed, but it's held it's own so far....but yes more performance is there to... | |
| Integrated amp: Component weight If I were in your shoes, I'd look at: Ayre EX-8 (24 pounds), Aavik I-180 or I-280 (20 pounds), Hegel H390 (40 pounds), or CODA CSiB....but that is definitely pushing it at 50 pounds. | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Minotophase3, Congratulations, you will love the S5.5! I'm driving 93db 4 Ohm Clayton Shaw Caladans with it, and the Spatials should be amazing as well.....love my combo | |
| The time has come and I request advice... The Pontus II 12th isn't (and won't be for some time) the limiting factor in your set up......it will be a very good pairing with an updated streamer | |
| Not enough outlets The problem with some of the strips is that they use the same OEM low quality cables as you probably already have. Cullen Cables makes very nice power boxes with an upgraded cable, and nice receptacles.....hand made in the USA and a great bargain.... | |
| Anyone else order Caladans from Clayton Shaw? the_nick, Let's go Hokies! Feel free to reach out any time, love to talk audio | |
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