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Hall of Fame: BIGGEST BADDEST Monster Amps

There have been a lot of posts on:

"tube amps with balls"
"amps to drive my 1 ohm, inefficient speakers"
"amps for rock and roll"
"Levinson, Krell, Bryston, Pass Labs etc"
"sounds more powerful than its rating suggests"
"despite low rating, puts out huge current" etc.

But I somehow find these threads divergent and confusing and still cant seem to short list a new set of monoblocks to biamp (low end) and COMMAND my Magneplanar Tympanis, fill up a large room with EFFORTLESS dynamics and CONTROL the bass with no debates, questions, reservations or tweaky failures.

So let's please hear your thoughts:

What are the all time, hall of fame, MONSTER power amps, where there should be no doubt whatsover about HUGE amounts, of effortlessly dynamic, clean, smooth, audiophile power.

I have to think that for the low end of biamping, this should be a solid state amp, unless someone can really suggest an unusually robust and low maintenance tube amp.

Mark Levinson 20.6?
Pass X-600's?
Bryston 7 B monoblocks?
Parasound monoblocks?

Thank you.
cwlondon
tbg
5,263 posts
 
Only three are notable, the Phase Linear 700, the Ampzilla, and the Sanders Magtech.
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m-db
940 posts
 
I can't speak to the Sanders Magtech amplifier since I haven't had the opportunity to audition it at home. It does have some unique design features most notably it's power supply well worth reading about.

Generally and subjectively, I dislike the presentation of panel speakers especially if they,re curved. I also question my own impressions of demonstrations at audio shows. Life is too short not to mention the very few consistent stand outs that spoke to me.

The full Sanders Sound system with and LP source has consistently, show after show, impressed me. I can't say if the system is simply environment friendly, a synergy matched success, or both.

Most recently the Ayre amplified 9ft tall Soundlab Ultimates in what had to be the worst room for audio, a perfect cube, made side two of "Kind Of Blue" sound spectacular. In hindsight I was fortunate to have the room at the recent San Francisco (Millbrae) Audio Show very early Saturday morning all to myself. I revisited later in the afternoon and the demonstration was more about the speakers bass and SPL performance which, reportedly annoyed many but never the less proved their abilities.
c2300mc275
27 posts
 
There is only one - the Opera Only. Max output of 160,000W.

http://www.onlycreative.it/en.html
tbg
5,263 posts
 
C2300mc275, does it exist other than in prototype?
c2300mc275
27 posts
 
I believe so: http://www.higherfi.com/mobi/audio_amps/1

Yours for $500k.
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