Coda no.8 Vu metres question


Ok, so to those who have experience with coda amps, the VU meters have two settings, in first setting the meters are not moving very much and in the second they move quite a bit and at relatively moderate listening levels, with certain music can even flirt with the red. I can only assume the first less sensitive setting is watts? But the second....? Can anyone enlighten me before I start to bother the good folks at Coda?

 

lukaszwk

Still looking for any reviews whatsoever on Coda amps (that aren't by StereoTimes who raves about them and is the only review ever I see). Yes, I know, I know, they intentionally don't advertise, don't need to and keep their prices low by not advertising, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyone have any reviews from any credible source - other than Stereo Times? If the amps are so incredibly good I'd expect there'd be other reviews. 

Well, I can't point you to any reviews but I can describe my experience. This is by far and away the best amp I have owned or had over here or heard at other homes. It's staggering. It's delicate and powerful at the same time, you can inject any audiophile superlatives here because it does them all and this one is still breaking in. Every few days I sit in front of the stereo it's a surprise and a revelation and it just keeps getting better. I believe the word of mouth is a far better indication of an amplifier or anything for that matter than any paid review out there and by the way they are all paid. Especially ones in any magazine. So there is that

I think the fact that they are as popular as they are, without advertising, says a lot.

I have managed to find out little more about the meters because frankly, after some thought I really wasn’t satisfied. So the upper portion is actually a decibel scale, in my case it’s -20 to +3db and the lower portion which goes from 1 to 100 is the power percentage meter. This actually makes quite a bit more sense. Also apparently some early models had different meters so that is likely contributing to confusion, in my case at least.