Parasound JC5, Pass X250.8, Coda No. 8 V2 Recommendation

The Coda amp is extremely transparent and smooth- heard it briefly in a demo.  I owned the JC5 and next model down Pass labs amplifier.  The JC5 has a pronounced bottom end and is deeply powerful and dynamic but IMO at the expense of midrange.  The Pass labs amp was too colored euphonically in my system.  I wound up with the McIntosh MC312 which is absolutely perfect in my system.  

I had a JC5 for a few years. A good amp, but i also thought it lacked in midrange and back ground. I ended up going for the AGD Duet mono blocks. I ended up with more dynamic and fuller sound in my room. I could hear more of what i was missing when i had the JC5. After owning the AGD,s for nearly a year. I made up a set of power cables with furutech FP-TCS31 cable. After bedded them in for a few hundred hours the music {punk rock} got even clearer.

Thank you everyone for the good advice! The Coda No. 8 seems to get a lot of praise. I do want a glorious midrange, spatial imaging, and extended highs.

I’ll be biamping the speakers, where I’ll be using a separate class AB amp for the woofer, and a high-end amp for the mid/tweeter cab.

The Schitt Wotan at $2k compares well with the CODA #8 v1 that I owned. I now own the CODA #16 which is better than the Wotan (own it) and CODA #8.

The Wotan need a lot of hours to get some top end hardness to totally go away. I use the amp with the Benchmark HPA4 preamp and if there are any issues with the amp the HPA4 will let you hear it.

The Wotan sounds as good as a few $8k amps I owned in the past.