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In Reply to: Power amp suggestion please? posted by sushii on April 20, 2004 at 23:42:25:
Odyssey Audio Stratos has an msrp of $1070 new. Have not heard it myself but user and professional reviews rate it highly. Supposedly bests many high priced solid state designs and has just a trace of solid state character in the upper midrange, at least on resolving systems. www.odysseyaudio.comUsed Aragon 8008BB go for around your budget. They are very solid and very good sonically for their original price. This amp may not work well in a system with soft or dark character, nor driving inefficient speakers that also have complex crossovers (i.e. Thiel).
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Does Odyssey stratos match with Tube pre amp? Thanks
Well, I do not know about your a match with your preamp. I suppose a good overall match would include your speakers, speaker wire, and the output impedence of the preamp; how it interacts under load with the amp.Being a do-it-yourself preamp, you probably have some idea of its output characteristics (I am certain some on this asylum do), but the folks at Odyssey are very good from what I have read, and may be able to provide information from their amps perspective as well. They are reputable, and being strictly a direct web-based business have an audition return policy.
Sorry I cannot provide accurate and direct information, but just ideas or alternatives.
ThanksMy speaker is Sonus Faber Concertino Home... will probably upgrade to other sonus faber floorstanding if I ever upgrade, I fell in love with this brand :)
Anyway, you think it would be a good match?
Like I tried to allude to before, I do not know which speakers in general the Odyssey Stratos would be an ideal match for, as I have never tried the amp myself, but the Concertinos are generally considered fairly good, as are all Sonus Fabers; if you like their interpretation of the signal fed them. I would not mind trying a pair of the Cremonas in my system.You might try doing a search in the Asylum Amp/Preamp reviews for Odyssey Stratos to get a feel for what others think of the amp, at least under their conditions.
Just remember, your ears are your ears and there is nothing wrong with them. You spent your life listening to sounds all around, and your mind formed an imprint of the way certain things should sound, but also how sound in general functions, and how it should hit your ears (timing, phasing, etc.). If something coming from an audio system illicits a negative response or reaction from your senses, even if you are not sure why, there is probably something very wrong with it.
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