You've tried other amps and ended with Pass, please discuss

@gdnrbob 

@three_easy_payments,What speakers are you using?Bob

Spendor D7.  It actually said in post above.

Coda amps are a good alternative to Pass (owned by ex-Threshold engineers). A big difference is the level of marketing.

Hey @vinylvalet - Can you talk about the sonic characteristics between the two? I heard Coda’s a long time ago and from a sound quality perspective, I would not have naturally put them next to Pass. What have you heard that is different or the same?


From the designs then, Coda was a low negative feedback, and very high number of transistors, to achieve remarkably low output resistance. Doesn’t Pass favor the opposite? Zero feedback and simplest possible designs?


In addition, AFAIK, Pass favors rich even ordered distortion, while Coda is attempting a straight wire with gain approach.


Clearly both brands have engineers with an enviable pedigree, but to my ears and knowledge of their PR, they are taking divergent approaches.


Best,

Erik

This may answer some of your questions.

https://hometheaterreview.com/coda-technologies-continuum-no-8-stereo-amplifier/

Huh.

From :
https://hometheaterreview.com/coda-technologies-continuum-no-8-stereo-amplifier/

and copied here under fair use guidelines:

The Pass Lab sound is slightly warm and velvety while the Coda is smooth and silky in its overall presentation. Both are great. Which one you would like better would boil down to personal taste and system synergy. Both amps offer a liquidity and grainlessness that normally is only associated with tube-based amplification. The Coda is very musical yet very detailed in ways that make me think that a fairer comparison would be my Pass Labs XA-60.8 monoblocks, which is a significant accolade for the Coda No. 8, as the Pass 60.8s are mean competitors costing far more money.