Stereo Amp recommendations for Legacy Audio XDs

My CODA dealer is a huge Legacy dealer. He had a full CODA stack for all the Legacy speakers in his demo room.

I think CODA also built the wavelet for Legacy.

I don’t think you necessarily need to hear from just wavelet/XD owners but rather just amps that exhibit the sound characteristics you’re looking for as that’s the most important thing.  It’ll also get you a lot more good recommendations.  Just my opinion FWIW, and best of luck in your search.

Thx soix, agreed. I’m leaning toward a Coda s5.5, open to advice from others 

I have hunch that Line Magnetic 805 SET will work well with your speaker.

If you care about vocal, it is hard to beat SET.

If you have dealer around you, then you may ask for home audition.

Otherwise, used one is available at US Audiomart.

Thomas

We are a legacy dealer the coda amps are great

 The wavelet is not manufactured by coda it is made in Europe 

As per amp choice there are many

Thecoda amps are great a used krell xd 175 should also be on your short list as well as electrocompaniet 

DAVE and  troy

Audio intellect Nj

Legacy coda dealers 

Legacy makes a multichannel amp you can purchase in different configurations.

I misspoke when I said that CODA may have built the Wavelet. It was the amps that CODA built for Legacy in the past. This thread mentions some past history,

Legacy Amplifiers — Polk Audio Forum

I have an amp that I like a lot and sounds better to my ears than the CODA #8. It is the Sanders Magtech which I got used from Sanders for $4k with 1-year warranty. Clas AB with 500 | 900 @ 8 | 4. Does not have the graininess of most older Class AB amps I have heard. The newer CODA #8 does not have graininess (if I remember correctly), but I seem to like the Sanders better. CODA also was involved in the build of the Sanders Magtech.

I am going to replace the Sanders with one of the following, SimAudio 761 or 861, CODA #16 (own one already), or the new CODA SYSTEM 150 (sp?) coming out next month. The Sanders is really good, but I want an end game amp for my Livingroom speakers.

I will likely need to keep the Sanders around for the very hot summer days in my small office.

BTW - KRELL is supposedly soon coming out with a trickle-down version of the $36k KRELL KSA i400. I would consider that new amp too (I love the new Duo XD KRELL sound which I owned in the past) but it would not match as well to my final Livingroom speaker.

BTW2 - I just noticed the KRELL Duo 175XD was mentioned above. I owned that amp and loved it. I used it with Thiel CS3.7. Only sold it to raise funds for some other gear.

I’ve owned Focus XDs and also recommend the Coda S5.5. I finally got fed up with the heat generated by tube amps in the AZ desert but couldn’t find anything solid state that was better or equal to the Zesto Bia 200 Select stereo 100W/channel class A amp I was using, the best tube amp I’ve owned.. Until the S5.5. Runs warm but not hot. Currently used in my main stereo driving Fyne F703 speakers. Highly recommended.

BTW,I tried several modern highly touted class D amps. Sorry, none of them float my boat. Certainly far better than what folks were raving about 10 years ago. Still not there, IMHO.

Call around. Discounts for Coda gear vary widely.

Thanks for the input guys. I'm going to look at the Coda and Krell.