Odyssey "Khartago" Stereo Extreme" amp compared to Schitt's "Vidar" amp

"Your are incorrect and delusional"? Nah! Just repeated something I shouldn’t have. "How’s $1,000.00 for a preamp, another $1,000.00 for a (150Wpc) amp (the first 35 watts are pure class A)...The sound was excellent with outstanding ability to go way down into the nether regions." That’s a verbatim quote, from the second(Audiophile Voice) of the two articles, regarding the Stratus amp’s output, to which I’ve briefly alluded, twice now. AND- like I said: had no business quoting those two personally unsubstantiated articles(whether correct, or not).

@georgehifi has a bias against Odyssey. It’s obvious and he’s made this clear in more than a few threads. 

Wether you believe in someone who says they are poorly built (but never heard one) is up to you @sunnyjim

Many love their Odyssey gear. That said, Schiit makes decent stuff for the money. 

I don’t feel you can go really wrong either way.

Under the amplifier specification section on the Odyssey site, it states that the amplifiers ( all of them ), indicate : Class A / AB. Who am I to question the validity of the claim. It might be a sliding bias circuit, because what George is saying, I believe, is that if it was a true, common class A circuit, the idle current, with no signal, would be higher than 35 watts, also indicated in the specification section. A $ 200. Technics receiver I see on the Bay, claims class A output, and it seems to be a flimsy chassis. Having owned, and being familiar with, many " true " class A amplifiers, I will say, they all had extremely large power supplies, huge amounts of heat sink area ( some with a fan ), and ran extremely warm, to very hot. And, the electrical draw, at idle, was always, at least 200 plus watts, in most cases much more. I have heard Odyssey amplifiers, and find them to be musical. Enjoy ! MrD.

@georgehifi has a bias against Odyssey. It’s obvious and he’s made this clear in more than a few threads.

Beside the BS calls by a couple of members here trying to con the gullible, that they are 35w Class-A per channel.

The one thing I've always stated is that was not made totally clear to potential purchasers in their advertising, is that the far more expensive Monoblock are just the Stereo version bridged.
And if you have any knowledge of amplifier electronic design, you'll know that all you gain by bridging a stereo amp is extra watts! Every other parameter that makes the same amp in stereo a good amp, takes quite a large hit when it's bridged.
  
And if you need proof once again here are the internals of the stereo v monoblock, if you have a modicum of EE knowledge you'll see that it's just a stereo amp bridged into mono, your actually getting a lesser sound quality amp in monoblock but with more watts than in stereo.

And yes as I mentioned the chassis are the same (no biggie) just with blanked holes for the other input and speaker terminals for stereo.

 

The stereo amp - https://ibb.co/VBbVcFJ

 

The monoblock amp - https://ibb.co/L1wmrP7

Cheers George

Anyone interested in returning to the subject of this thread(WITHOUT the spin)? ie: ’Odyssey "Khartago" Stereo Extreme" amp compared to Schitt’s "Vidar" amp’. NOT amps strapped/bridged mono or a chassis with extra holes, but- a stereo amp, with a plethora of upgrades, from it’s base model. I never intimated the amp of interest to the OP, had 35W of Class A, either. That was PURPORTEDLY the base model, 150W, Stratus, which(again) I never should have mentioned, without personal confirmation. Has anyone actually compared(LISTENED TO) the pieces, mentioned by the OP? Nothing against Schitt's gear here, either. Happy listening!