Integrated Amp upgrade path

Coda is one excellent company where you get more sound quality and build vs the competition  per $$ dollar spent and I have heard several over $10k 
not as good and 3 wpc choices ,% into pure class A .I choose the V1 option 150,300,600 wpc ,18- 1st watts in pure class A . The excellent separate preamp section is also in pure class A.
and many class leading  parts in this the design .the build quality is exceptional . I ordered mine with the 1.0 uf  VH audio Odam  ,capacitors which I feel are betterThen the very good stock 
Multi caps and Huge class leading 3k va potted transformer which  produces  over 120 amps on tap with exceptional control and dynamics. It is a steal for $6500 ,the price will be going  up to $7 k soon I suspect.one more things 10 year warranty,5 year transferrable.   http://v2.stereotimes.com/post/coda-csib-integrated-by-richard-willie/

guy-incognito +1 to adding an external DAC; big improvement - not even using a really high-end DAC.

I agree with several other folks who say your sound will be very different switching out from the McIntosh. You need to hear the Bolder or other recommendations before making a switch that big. I am a former Mcintosh owner and in my case moving to another brand gave me a big improvement over the sound of the Mc. But to be clear, nothing wrong with McIntosh, it just has it's own voice. And I realized I liked other amp's sound better. You may not find that to be true.

@deadhead1000: What did you upgrade to?...just curious.


I am a MA8900 owner. I am going to try a Lumin T2 with my amp. I currently have a ~$1500 Teac NT505 which sounds much better than the MA8900’s DAC, so as to streaming I would call out the installed DAC as being inferior. That being said, you can upgrade your MA8900 with the DA2 module which gives it a much more current DAC and more capabilities.

OP, I notice you have a REL 6 pack. Currently I have 2 REL S/812s and am thinking of building up a six pack. How challenging was it to dial in the six pack?

Thanks