Pass X150.5 or Odyssey Stratos monos?
I’ll keep mine until I have the $20-30K to buy a Pass product. Don’t know where you buy used Pass X150.5 that we're talking about here, but they go for $1500 to $3000 all over the place. https://www.hifishark.com/model/pass-labs-x-150-5 Cheers George |
georgehifi I would disagree with you regarding my speakers/amp combo. Actually at the time my speakers were Dali Rubicon 6's that actually had a nominal impeadence of 4 ohms when I aquired the Kahrtargo monoblocks. The Kahrtargo monoblocks had a input impedance of 10k ohms My Dehavilland UV 3 had a output impeadence of 800 ohms so that was the deal breaker. At minimum my Dehavilland needs to "see" 18K ohms per Kara at Dehavilland. Happy Listening Mark |
I have Odyssey Kismet Monos (In Kartango Cases) & they are fabulous. Significantly cheaper than Pass & with somewhat better Specs in Damping Factor & Slew Rate, which are important in Bass & Slam. I do use Sub Woofers, as I am somewhat of a Bass Freek. Pass is a Class act, but Odyssey Monos will stand up to Pass, check out this review of Kismet Monos ~ https://6moons.com/audioreviews/odyssey2/1.html Mine are driven by an Assemblage Pre-Amp; both Amps & Pre-amp were purchased used, @ significant savings. Amp SN's are in the 52xx range & may even have better parts than those reviewed in the link above, as Klause of Odyssey is continually improving his products. When I got the Odyssey Amps, I used my existing 8 Foot Twisted Silver Plated Copper Cables on my Anthonney Galllo 3.1's Later, I replaced these with 3 Foot, 20 Gauge, 5 Strands ,Twisted Pure Silver Wire with Teflon shielding (wound myself from wire of which I had bought some 30 Years ago). WoW did the HIGH Frequency Response Jump out! Yes, a big advantage of Mono's comes from using Much Shorter Speaker Wires! Best of Sound as you continue your quest for Audio Perfection. |
