Hello from AZ!
Long time reader and just wanted to introduce myself. I started in this hobby at the age of 12....by 16, and living in Germany, I had a Grundig amp, Dual turntable and home built speakers. In college we used my rig for all the dorm parties....luckily most of those LP's survived! My first large audio purchase was a pair of ESS Towers, paid $1600. for them in the late seventies. My current main rig consists of Odyssey Stratos Extreme Monoblocks upgraded recently by Klaus to Kismet status. I use a Modwright LS100 pre with Soviet era 1578 6SN7's and GEC U52 rectifier. Currently running in a pair of Stirling Broadcast LA3/6's with Lumin A1 Streamer with a Kenneth Lau Silver Edition LPS. Dedicated heavily treated room with a soundstage that is crazily immersive. I had a small fortune worth of SR cables but a very good audiophile bud and a crazy engineer type built me a full loom of cables that allowed me to cash out of all the super expensive SR cables with a nice gain in sonic density and no loss of detail, air and nuance that I can detect....incredible!
Over the years I have had several amps and thus far I find the Odysseys to be my keepers. I have a McIntosh C500T pre amp that is the finest I've ever owned and next week plan to integrate it into this rig. Looking forward to hearing it.
I am still a large SR fan and have had great improvement using their fuses....currently the Purple fuses. Any Stratos users out there that have tried them in their amps? With 4 internal and one in the IEC connector....that's 10 total fuses and quite the investment! Has anybody determined the correct orientation of the 4 on the internal boards?
Look forward to being a long term member both reading and contributing in any way I can. A wonderful life long hobby!
Thanks!
