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| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! I'm gonna try and get my thoughts together and get an opinion posted here in the next couple of days. Had to do extra work, because I was also breaking in a pair of Clayton Shaw Caladan speakers.....and needed to make sure what I was hearing was t... | |
| Streamer/DAC combinations Davegolf2424 Upgrade to a good DAC; the Denafrips Pontus 2 (used $1,400 or so), new $1,850 would be a great addition. It will work great with the Node, but is good enough to keep through your next round of upgrades.....and yes this will be very n... | |
| Cd player Jay's Audio CDT-2 MkIII, it's a great transport and definitely ups the SQ game. I own an Audiolab CDT-6000 (which is a very good transport), but the Jay's blew it away. It's what I'd buy as of today, but I'd definitely test the Teac 701 as well. ... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Wonder why the last 3 posts have been deleted? | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Jfrmusic, Call Doug Dale at CODA, he is easy to talk to, free with his opinions, and an all around great guy. I've spoken to him a few times before and after buying the S5.5, and he was easy to reach.....actually he picked up the phone each time.... | |
| 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. |