Copland

Why it is renowned

Copland has sold its amplifiers abroad since the 1990s, when the CTA401 valve amplifier found buyers well beyond Denmark.¹ Today it has distributors in more than twenty countries, among them Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Australia, Malaysia and Argentina.² The British magazine Hi-Fi News reviewed the CTA407 in 2023.³ It named the amplifier an Outstanding Product in its November 2023 issue.⁴ The CSA70 won a Diapason d'Or award, presented in Paris in January 2023.⁴

Recognition

• Hi-Fi News, UK⁴2023the CTA407 reviewed and named an Outstanding Product
• Diapason d'Or, Paris⁴2023a Diapason d'Or award for the CSA70

The story

Ole Møller began at Ortofon, working on phono cartridges, cutter heads and low-noise amplifiers for the recording industry, before founding Copland in Copenhagen in 1984.¹ Its first product that year was the CTA15, a 12-watt-a-channel valve power amplifier.¹⁵ From 1990 the Swedish firm Xena Audio built Copland designs under licence for more than a decade; in 2001 production moved back to a factory outside Copenhagen.¹

In 1993 the CSA14 introduced Copland's hybrid circuit, a valve input stage direct-coupled to a solid-state Class A output, which carried a line of "CSA" amplifiers.¹ The first CD player, the CDA288, followed in 1996, designed with Morten Simonson, formerly of Philips.¹⁵

What to know it by

• CTA15⁵1984discontinuedOle MøllerValve power amplifier, the first Copland
• CTA401¹1990discontinuedIntegrated valve amplifier that set the look of the range
• CSA14¹1993discontinuedFirst hybrid valve and solid-state amplifier
• CTA405⁵2005discontinuedIntegrated valve amplifier
• CTA407⁶Integrated valve amplifier with automatic bias and a phono stage
• CSA70⁷Integrated amplifier with DAC, 70 watts a channel