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Coda CSIb - what loudspeaker would be perfect?

Hi, I'm considering buying the integrated amp. CODA CSI balanced and I'm wondering what loudspeakers would be a perfect match. Can someone share his/her experience? As my source will be Oppo Digital 95 mod (just waiting for ModWright to work on it.....), such loudspeaker will have to "handle" in addition to classical rock/classical/smooth jazz also audio from video.
Cheers and thank you
mikefi

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herman
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The perfect speaker is one that sounds the best to you in your price range. In other words; your quest is backwards. Since the speaker is by far the most colored of all components you must first find a speaker you like and then find an amp that is a good match for driving it.

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herman
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6550C,

It doesn't work that way. Assuming you have decent quality gear and you don't have a gross mismatch between amp and speaker (like trying to drive an inefficient speaker with a flea powered amp) the speaker will always be the overwhelming factor in determining the sound.

A speaker is like a piece of salmon and the amp is like spices. If you don't like salmon then it is just about impossible to cover it up with spices, that salmon flavor always comes through; but if you like salmon you can enjoy it with a wide variety of spices. You can enjoy a speaker you like with a large number of amps but if you don't care for a speaker you can't hide it's flavor.

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