My experience with Odyssey was not so good. I had a Stratos, a Tempest and the new Candela when it came out. I had very low hum and low level spurious noise coming from the components. After not months, but over a year of dealings with no satisfaction I sold the equipment at a loss. YMMV. No experience with Bel Canto.
Looking for an amp....Opinions about Odyssey or Bel Canto audio anyone?
Hey people,
I'm looking at purchasing a new amp, stereo or possibly monos, and I've read very good reviews regarding Bel Canto, but not much regarding Odyssey audio and their offerings. Anyone with experience with either? I realize I'm comparing vastly different amps, but I need more power than my current class d amp gives me--I think my speakers would really benefit from the higher power. Odyssey amps look nice, but you have to spend a good amount of money to get anything over 180 watts.
I'm open to suggestions, but I was looking at a used pair of Bel Canto REF 1000Ms or a new Odyssey.
Thanks in advance.
Jerry
I'm looking at purchasing a new amp, stereo or possibly monos, and I've read very good reviews regarding Bel Canto, but not much regarding Odyssey audio and their offerings. Anyone with experience with either? I realize I'm comparing vastly different amps, but I need more power than my current class d amp gives me--I think my speakers would really benefit from the higher power. Odyssey amps look nice, but you have to spend a good amount of money to get anything over 180 watts.
I'm open to suggestions, but I was looking at a used pair of Bel Canto REF 1000Ms or a new Odyssey.
Thanks in advance.
Jerry
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Jonas, I know many people have had a good experience with Odyssey Audio. I cannot, nor would not, argue with that. In my own experience, after sending equipment to him twice, it was not fixed and I still had the same problems. I found out later his Tempest preamps has buzzing transformers from people who wrote on his own forum on audiocircle.com. So I had wanted to like and keep the equipment, but Klaus kept telling me it was a problem with my AC, which it was not....clearly after much testing. Ended up selling the gear back to Klaus and at very big $$ loss to me. If it were me, I would get the Bel Canto gear over the Odyssey if that was my two choices. |
Jonas, worth a look here.. Parasound JC5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTBTDX4uPcI have the A21 stereo amp and it is very good. This amp is about 3 steps up. The Parasound sound HINT has the preamp bulit in, but I like the JC5. |