33 p10 copy.pdf, Design philosophy 5 – Coda 60.0 Mono Amplifier User Manual

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I. Design Philosophy and Approach (continued)

To maintain “Precision Bias” requires an advanced bias circuit that must have a very

high degree of stability under a wide range of temperatures and load conditions.

networks are of such high impedance and poor thermal regulation

that at the extremes of operation, bias currents are

controlled. Advanced

tracking techniques used in the 60.0 result in absolute control of bias currents under all

conditions.

The main power supply of the

consists of two 2000VA toroidal power

transformers (or one 3000VA transformer in the EU) with independent

to

isolate the channels from one another. 184,000 microfarads of total capacitance

provide

These attributes result in a

of such extreme linearity and bandwidth that no

overall feedback correction is required or used. One advantage of this is a high

degree of immunity from interactions with loads or cables and a superior transient

response. An extremely low nonreactive output impedance is maintained well beyond

20,000 hz. The resulting uniform damping factor is not commonly found in other

designs.

The chassis of the 60.0 is constructed of machined aluminum milled to very close

tolerances yielding the seamless appearance characteristic of previous products

from Coda. As with all high-power

heat dissipation is important. The 60.0

uses six massive aluminum heat sinks without fans for

noiseless, and clean

thermal relief. The thermal

of the 60.0 heat sinks is one of the lowest and

most

in the audio industry.

DESIGN PHILOSOPHY

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