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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This thread is really old - BUT - Are the Pass monoblocks bridged stereo amps? They have two sets of binding posts.

Sorry topside3, but I don't know. I kind of doubt it. A lot of manufacturers will put dual binding posts on mono amps for flexibility in connections to the loudspeakers. PS Audio I know does this.

 

On an unrelated note, I have been reading through this old thread and quickly realized that georgehifi is COMPLETELY CLUELESS and sounds like a broken record.

 

 

georgehifi makes it very clear that he has zero concept of the various mono amps that Odyssey offers. No matter how many times he's told that they are NOT true "bridged" amplifiers like he thinks, he can't get it through his thick skull. He keeps blabbering on about "bridged amplifiers have lots more power and all of the other specs decline.

 

 

georgehifi keeps completely ignoring the fact that the Odyssey mono amplifiers are ONLY about 20 watts more powerful than their stereo versions, yet damping specs in the mono amps are substantially higher, and said mono amplifiers are still fully stable down to a 2 ohm load, just like their stereo versions. 

You CAN'T do that with true "bridged" amplifiers like you keep blabbering on about, which is EXACTLY why Odyssey mono amps CAN. 

 

Owners of these very amps, one of which modified his stereo pair to a mono pair via Klaus' instructions, and Klaus himself replying to this clown, and he STILL goes on sounding like a broken record saying the same old garbage over and over and over again. Everything georgehifi is told goes in one and ear and right out the other. 

 

Like I said, georgehifi is COMPLETELY CLUELESS! 

LOL... I just stumbled across this thread again, and ol' broken record georgehifi still amazes me at how clueless and incompetent he is. 

 

Refuses to simply go to Odyssey's site and look at the stereo vs mono amp specs, or even read published reviews of the amps for that matter from 3rd party. 

 

Of course georgehifi won't do that, because he will instantly prove himself wrong.

 

Let's see...

Stratos Stereo amp - 150W x 2 @ 8 ohms - 500 damping - 45 amps current 

Stratos Mono amp - 180W x 1 @ 8 ohms - 800 damping - 120 amps current 

Both amps are 2 ohm stable. Both amps are rated at 0.04% THD. 

 

Yes, poor ol' incompetent georgehifi STILL hasn't a clue as to what he blabbers on about. And to no surprise at all, he is a major Amir butt-kisser over on that stupid ASR site, where mastermind Amir is also totally clueless and typically wrong 99% of the time with his measurements and very poor execution (a.k.a. - improper) of gear reviews. Amir and that site is the laughing stock of the hifi community. 

 

Oh well, sucks to be them. LOL