Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ?


Just wondering, with this audio merry-go-round of buying and selling, if anyone has an amp that will be a keeper for life. I haven't yet but came verrrry close once...
sonicbeauty
All very well unless you have owned a Coda S100 or their new 15.0! Or for that matter a Coda of any vintage!
Coda is two ex Threshold guys.
They have been producing as Coda for over 25 years
Then we'll talk!
I've mentioned my Edge NL 12.1s previously; they are definitely a keeper. The big Karans (don't own them but have heard them) certainly make the list. The entry that has my attention right now, and something I am dying to hear about and hear in person is Tom Maker's (Maker Audio) NL14 stereo and the NL14+ monos....I have to find a way to hear them but surmised based upon details I was given about all the lessons learned that have been applied to them, I suspect they will find a place on this list.
I thought my h/k citation 19 would be until someone told me the caps were like listening through mud.
I've recently uped to a rotel rb-1080.
Opera Consonance Cyber 800's, built like a tank, purposely good looking, excellent quality of manufacture, dog reliable, gutsy, great dynamics, musical.
Cheap to re-valve and affordable to purchase.