@mclinnguy Thank you! Best $5 I've spent in a long time. And my retinas thank you.
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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Does anyone at al lother than Terry London write reviews for Coda? I'm serious. He's the only person reviewing them ever. No Stereophile, No Absloute Sound, Part Time Audiohphile etc. really weird that if they're so good no mainstream credible mag will or has reviewed them -ever as far as I can tell. |
Good. That keeps the costs lower for the consumers. It costs money to send your product to reviewers such as the ones you listed in the form of required advertising, from what I have read. Those "mainstream credible" mags don't review the best gear, they just review the gear that gets sent to them where the manufacturer chooses to pays the price, and as a result must pass the costs onto the customers. If a company sells enough of their product by word of mouth, what would be the point paying several thousands (*I am not exactly sure) for a review?
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@mclinnguy +1, exactly. Coda doesn't advertise in the mainstream rags, making a review highly unlikely even if they were to send them a unit. It's why folks pick Pass over Coda even though Coda sounds about the same or better at far less cost. |
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