kairosman
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| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! For anyone worried about the S5.5 driving a tough load, it drives my B&W 804 D4s easily, and the D4s are a VERY complicated load for an amp. Lol JA's measurements in the Stereophile review had the ASR zombies frothing at the mouth. | |
| Stuff You Tried To Love My Denafrips Terminator II never convinced - I sold it on after comparing it in my system with a Gustard R26 w/ external clock, which for my tastes was on par with the Terminator for less than half the price. | |
| Yamaha NS 5000 w/ NAD M33 Agree with others here, adding room treatment and a sub will help, but those speakers merit much better electronics, trade the NAD in or sell it and get a Boulder 866 or even better a Gryphon Diablo 333. I have heard those speakers more than once ... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! The Audio Hungary Qualiton C200 tube preamp is a true balanced design and that is what I use to drive my S5.5 - I am getting solid, articulate bass, pure, resolving midrange and sparkling high frequency extension. Wide and especially deep soundsta... | |
| Denafrips Terminator 2 bs. ? I have the following 3 DACS on rotation in my system via the USB output from a Lumin P1 (which has a killer internal DAC btw so I guess that makes 4 DACs actually): Gustard R26 w/ external LHY OCK-2 clock Weiss DAC204 w/ Ferrum Hypsos LPS Lampi... | |
| Help me pick a Dac You have a nice system worth a good digital stack, sell the Node and Gaincell and either go for a streamer/DAC Budget - Lumin D3 or Expensive - Aurender A200 | |
| Benchmark AHB2 in Mono Block Configuration OP, I have owned CODA amps, and previously had a Bryston 4B3. The Bryston was competent but that's not saying much IMO. CODA makes great value amps and currently I am running an S5.5 in my second system, a wonderful amp but perhaps not quite enoug... | |
| recommend PRAT Integrated amplifiers (not Naim) Kinki Studio EX-M1 on a budget Boulder 866 next step up Cost no object Soulution 330 I have a Gryphon Diablo 300 but I wouldn't say PRAT is a strong suit | |
| Seeking Honest Opinions: Your Experience with McIntosh Audio Gear Can't beat MAC on price/value ratio nor for resale and service. Sonics and and build quality can be bettered but only by EXPENSIVE stuff like VAC or Boulder etc. I recently heard the top of the line preamp and it is one of the best preamps I've he... | |
| Meitner MA-3 vs Lampizator Baltic 4 Baltic 4 owner here having upgraded from Baltic 3, big difference in resolution at the frequency extremes. Soundstage is wide and deep. Fed by a Lumin U1 (the big boy not the mini). Previously I owned a Terminator II DAC (fed by an Aurender N200) ... | |
| Songs you use when auditioning gear Art Pepper's Nature Boy if you primarily want to test acoustic instrument fidelity. | |
| Streamers: Lumin U2 vrs Aurender N200 I sold my Aurender N200 to partly finance a Lumin P1, the N200 is an excellent unit but I prefer the P1 fiber optic input's sonic results in my system. The difference between the LAN and fiber optic inputs was not subtle, fiber optic revealed anot... | |
| Looking for 200 watt Amp to drive Dynaudio Heritage speakers Paired with your LTA pre I would definitely go for SS amps a tiny bit on the warmish side (you can get these amps around $6K new, not too far outside your budget): - CODA S5.5 - AGD Tempo di GaN - Jeff Rowland 535 All have the requisite drive... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! @speedthrills yup I think reselling CODA amps might not be as easy as McIntosh, I imagine the circle of CODA buyers and sellers is somewhat self-contained but then also self-sustaining. I’ve owned 3, all were rock solid amps. The S5.5 is $6.5K new... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Yes I had a #8 and a CSIB and ended up with the S5.5 and agree with Terry it's the best of the lot, and by a considerable margin, at least in my system. Yet it is the cheapest amp CODA makes. I have it paired with an Audio Hungary Qualiton C200 tu... |