Best Class A amp with SLAM

Atmasphere, I bet those would drive my OHMs nicely!

Any deep Black Friday discounts coming up?

Seriously, how practically does one keep all the tubes on a device like that functioning properly? I imagine a relatively small investment in a good tube tester would help.

Most slam?

Probably the biggest, heaviest, highest wattage, power gulping, least green, most expensive one out there, whatever that is?

I could have used a pair like that with my large OHM 5 speakers.

But not practical for me (or most) so I tried Class D and have not looked back.

"why did you sell them if you were pleased with them"

Isn't that what audiophiles do? IE get rid of stuff that already sounds good in hope of getting something better? :-)

OR sometimes of course things just break or need service to perform well again and people just decide to move on. Audiophiles are picky listeners and when the sound seems to change for the worse, even slightly, it can be very hard to figure out why and easier to just move on. It's an in-exact science in many ways.

Tube tester included...nice!

Auto-bias...that should help a lot.

I recall VAC features that on some of their best amps and touts how hard it is to pull off properly.

Now I just need the black Friday sale.....

Since we're talking CLass A here, I won't worry about the power bills, that's probably a given for any Class A amp that can realistically lay claim to having the best slam.

The BEST anything never comes cheap.

Chocolate maybe. Having tried many, Hersheys may still be the best.

" the new krell amps have a different sound flavor, some may prefer it, I do not, there is nothing like the old school slam of Krell!,"

What's exactly is different about newer Krell compared to old?

probally really depends more on the speaker/amp combination for the resulting slam."

Absolutely it does. The BEST amp with slam is probably the one that can do it best with most any speaker that is up to the task in most any room.

Kinda like how Peyton Manning and Tom Brady can rack up the yards with almost no regard to who is catching the ball on the other end.

Of how the UFC MMA champion with the most slam is probably the biggest one, ie the heavyweight champion.

The best smaller guys may be more skilled, faster and more nimble though, so that's not to say they might not be able to take out the biggest, baddest slammer on any given day.

SET amps are the featherweights. Talented and nimble but ain't gonna outslam the bigger boys in most cases.

Class D amps may be the "light heavyweights". Talented, lean and mean, slam galore and pretty nimble, but in a smaller, more efficient package. The George St. Pierre of amps! :^)

Probably true.

Amp + speakers both matter. Biggest baddest amp + biggest baddest most efficient full range speakers with slam to match probably wins in the end. COuld be a commercial system geared towards a large venue or arena most likely and overkill for most any home.

In most peoples homes, even with larger rooms and higher volumes, it might be impossible to determine the best amp or combo in that many could test one's slam tolerance in practice. It's just a much smaller scale problem there.