Hello, I spoke with Klaus on Friday evening - he'll be out until early June.
I just ordered the Odyssey Stratos Extreme amp & Tempest preamp (w/remote) combo for 2 channels yesterday, delivery should be about 6/20/2006. I paid about 3 grand for both as a combo, & Klaus was real helpful in making my order go through... I know some German & we talked about other things besides the combo as well...

My amp I'm replacing is a NAD C370 @ 120 wpc (a nice amp in itself). This will power the Klipsch RF-7 references for 2.1 (along w/a custom 15" Tempest Signature subwoofer). My CD/DVD player is an old model Toshiba SD9200 refurbised unit I got for a "steal". No surround (yet), my current room is a bit small (13x24) to fit everything - it's my main playroom.
The amp is 150 watts/channel with a massive 180,000 uF capacitance with "power reserve for bass" & heavily biased into Class A operation. This would make an excellent reference musical amp.