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Pass X150.5 or Odyssey Stratos monos?

After months of research and mental anguish ;) I've narrowed down my search for new amplification to the two in the title. There are obvious differences like the fact that one is a stereo amp while the other are monoblocks. Anyway, if you had to, which option would you go with and why? Thanks!
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georgehifi
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Can't take the truth?, then don't try to justify falsehoods.
rodman99999
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The One Note, One Lyric Samba: Yada, Yada, Yada (ad nauseum).
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You need to educate more, https://ibb.co/x5CGWHQ

Better still find "just one amp designer" that doesn't bridge amplifiers to sell. To back bridging to have the same quality measured specs as the same amp non-bridged, into todays high end quite hard to drive speakers. 
rodman99999
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Gotta wonder: how does the Odyssey Stratus Mono SOUND on a test bench?         It's been my experience: dummy load resistors have a very limited frequency response.      
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Do you think that’s all it is, driving a dummy load resistor? you have a lot to learn.

And a non bridged amp will drive a 2-4ohm load better than the same amp bridged if you’d like to know.

Don’t you guys think a designer like Nelson Pass would have just bridged amps like his stereo X250 to make his mono X600????? or his XA30 stero to make his XA100 monos???
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