Are Monoblock s worth it?


Would like your collective Wisdom on the subject of Monoblocks. I have a single Odyssey Stratos and the cost to convert to Mono's are not that much additional. However, I do not play my existing system at very high levels and almost never turn the volume beyond half-way (normally around 11:00). Is this an advisable upgrade? I know that I theoretically should have more dynamic headroom, but I do not know how this translates into real world listening.

System:

Maggie SMGa (soon to be Newform R645's in next week or so)
Morrison Elad pre-amp
Cambridge Audio CD500-SE

Musical taste - 50% Classical Symphonic, 30% Classical instrumental and 20% rock/pop
sibelius

Showing 1 response by beemer

Dynamic headroom! Interesting words. The stratos is a good amp according to what I read, but I have not heard it.

Do you currently find that when listening to large scale orchestral passages that the instruments all get jumbled together instead of remaining in their places in your soundstage? The monos may help alleviate that congestion.

This is a hard thing to describe, but I call it "the space between instruments", where all are distinct and easily identified in the mix.

I hope this poor scribe may have helped shed a little light for you!

Paul