Bladelius Oden II - Stereo Amplifier

In Norse mythology Oden was the king of all the gods, the wisest, the most powerful and the creator of mankind, who gave the gift of life to Ask and Embla.

This Swedish-made integrated amplifier embodies all the accumulated experience that we at Bladelius have learned over the centuries. With its two gigantic toroidal power transformers it generates a whopping 400 Watts at 8 ohms. Although very powerful, its main focus is on musicality and not just raw power. It truly lives up to the Oden name, offering impeccable speaker driving ability, symbolizing the uncompromising design and quality that Bladelius has set as a pure standard in the industry.

The positive and negative current path through the voice coil must be completely symmetrical to accurately drive the speaker diaphragm. So, naturally, symmetry was a special concern when designing the ODEN II. The search for complete balance in the amplifier circuit, power source circuit, and structural aspects.

With the Simpler is better design philosophy, we have reduced the voltage amplifier stage to one for the shortest possible signal path. ODEN II offers a rarely found truly balanced design with no ground as a reference for the highest possible performance. A high performance DC servo that operates outside the signal path. The input stage is driven by a pair of manually matched current loaded JFETs in a foldback cascade arrangement that offers very linear performance regardless of playback level. This combined with the current feedback provides extremely fast and stable performance.

To increase power purity and achieve more responsive and consistent audio reproduction, the rectifier stage has been completely redesigned, and an even larger bank of over 260,000uF European-made slotted foil capacitors effortlessly helps deliver the smooth, dynamic sound with excellent transient response that the ODEN II was designed for. True to Bladelius’ long-standing design philosophy of Simpler is better, the ODEN II minimizes the number of components required for the first stage, allowing music to be amplified in its purest form and pass through the circuit without losing even the most subtle information.

A pair of JFET devices carefully hand-selected by our production line specialist have been incorporated into the amplifier's redesigned input circuit. This improves the operational stability of the amplification. As a result, each production unit of the ODEN II has identical performance characteristics, and the ODEN II delivers identical performance between the left and right channels. In addition, the new DC servo circuit stabilizes the amplification, is resistant to changes in operating temperature and input signal magnitude, and will also eliminate fluctuations in sound intensity. All this attention to detail ensures that these amplifiers produce powerful, condensed sound with deep, rich bass, allowing the listener to have a truly immersive stereophonic experience.

From the remote control the user can conveniently select to operate the unit in heavy Class A mode or in a more standard Class A/B mode.

The chassis is made of non-magnetic materials machined to create the lowest possible electromagnetic field for the best sound quality. The clean design of the ODEN II represents both the Bladelius philosophy of Simpler is better and classic Scandinavian design.