@paoz I have an Aric Audio 6sn7 Linestage.
The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"!
I have in-house the New Coda Technologies S5.5 amplifier for review for Stereo Times website. It will be awhile before I write the review. However, I'm so impressed by the performance of this petite amplifier, it only weights 45 pounds, that I wanted to give a heads up to you GON members if you are in the market for a balanced pure class A amplifier, delivers 50 watts @ 8 Ohms, and can drop 100 Amperes of current on a peak!
The world class build quality of Coda amplifiers is on display with the S5.5, along with the most beautiful purity of tonality, precise sound-staging, complete liquidity offered by pure class A design, and what might be the best top end regarding details, decays, and a natural shimmering without brightness or any edge at all.
The S5.5 uses extremely wide bandwidth output transistors instead of the usual TO3 devices used in most transistor designs. I own the Coda #16, which is great, but the midrange/high end is taken to another level of musical enjoyment with the S5.5. The S5.5 has a sense of speed/aliveness that is exciting to listen to that you experience in live music. The amp is dynamic as hell, has driven with ease any speaker I have tried it with, hence my nickname of the "Petite Beast". Remember, 50 watts pure class A, can drop 100 amperes of current and only weights 45 pounds.
Teajay (Terry London)
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I have been holding out purchasing electronics for my recently acquired Focal Sopra 3's. Have read a lot about the Coda value for the $. Am wondering if anyone has matched either of the more budget versions of Coda with Focal Sopra 3's. I"m considering the following: Coda S5.5 with a matched Coda preamp, or CSIB Hegel 590 600 Gryphon 120 |
Maybe I’m naive, but this is the first time I’ve heard that the major mags require you to do paid advertising to get reviewed. Other than one manufacturer apparently suggesting this, is their other evidence confirming this is the case? It sounds like a pretty serious charge to be making or repeating without such evidencr. To be clear, I hold no brief for the major mags, but would just like to know if what is suggested in this thread is correct. |
sim_audio_nerd55 posts Just got my Coda S5.5...havent taken it out yet..will do this weekend..
The manual online the speaker terminals seems to be opposite..the left channel terminals are on the right and same for the right channel.. Do I just ignore it? Put the left speaker cables to the left amp terminals and so on? minatophase330 posts @sim_audio_nerd Yes just ignore it. Put left speaker cables of left side when looking at the amp. I asked Doug about this and he said this is the way some older amps used to be labeled. Not sure why they did it that way only for the S5.5 but they did.
I called Doug today and he told me the same thing, but this can't be correct. The only way this would be right would be if you also switch the left and right input cables. If you use a test track it will show left channel on right and right channel on left. |
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