Amp/Preamp Asylum: RE: Didn' realize they were $6000 by l1945@sbcglobal.net

When dealing with Odyssey amps, you must consider the fact that they are almost always on a constant upgrade path during their production life span. An older standard Stratos monoblock sounds very dissimilar to a current production amp of the same model. My first Odyssey amps were 11xx S/N amps, and they were considered tobe a bargin at the time of their manufacture. I had them rebuilt to "extreme" specs, and they were a completely different animal. Later I had them rebuilt again to what we refer to as the "glass ceiling" version (mine were the first). Each one was a leap forward, and the latter was more of a giant leap compaired to the other two. How a Kissmet sounds; I haven't a clue! Most folks tend to get an idea what they sound like in the first seven to fourteen days, and this is dead wrong. They are so over built that it takes a minimum of four hundred hours to get tem up to speed (my glass ceiling amps were closer to 600 hours by the way). So when I hear a guy say they sounded like this or that after a week I know he's out in left field.

We all tend to judge an amp differently, and we all tend to look for different qualities in the amp(s). I judge mine by the way the duplicate piano music. Are they perfect no! (perfection for me is a CJ 140 monoblock)

I would be interested to hearing how the Kissmet amps develop as time goes by. So far I've heard nothing but good stuff about them
gary