I give UP Aerial 10Ts and Power Amps

You keep playing it loud to determine the limits and then you hit a limitation and you don't know what to do.

It's possible that at that high current your amps may be running out of power if they are on 15 amp circuits.

Also, the amps may be running out of juice if any other component is drawing power from/sharing the same circuit as your amps.

Also, the amps may be running out of juice if the amps are sharing the same circuit.

Each amplifier should be on it's own dedicated 20 amp circuit and circuit breaker.

I've been informed that if you have a high powered amp, that a 15 amp circuit at the service panel can actually limit the current to the amp acting as a govenor. Even if that's not true, you should still have 10 gauge wiring, 20 amp wall outlets, and a 20 amp circuit breaker at the service panel for each amplifier. At your volume levels you're liable to trip the circuits or start a fire.

Nevertheless, since you insist on playing your system at full volume (even tho you won't admit it), you should dump whatever amps you have at the moment and pick up the used McCormack DNA-2 Deluxe Rev A that's for sale right now on audiogon.

Most amps start straining or getting congested at higher volumes, but, as Internation Audio Review pointed out, this one stays clean, clear, and unflustered.

-IMO

Sean, the amps do not have to be 'starving' to experience some to many of the affects of being starved. Simply being a little hungry is enough seriuosly hamper an amps ability to perform. And I have no idea what affects a little hunger may have at full volume, but I'm sure it's not pretty.

For example, I have a 600 wpc @ 4ohm amp on a dedicated 20 amp circuit. However, until I installed my 3rd dedicated circuit/line, my preamp shared the amp's line. The preamp only consumes something like 36 watts or so, hardly anything. When I moved the pre off the amplifier's circuit, the amp just started singing dynamics. Huge difference in the dynamic headroom.

And I 90% of the time I play my music at just over 10 percent of full volume.

Sbruzonsky is correct. Monster is usually good to stay away from anyway. But with the current draw from your amp, you would need a very high powered AC regenerator which are very expensive.

I'm using a Foundation Research LC-2 in-line power conditioner but even that is only rated for 200 or 250 wpc so I'm suffering just a bit in that it weakens the bass ever so slightly. But it works wonders otherwise and I don't need an aftermarket power cord since it is 'in-line'. On top of that it does more that most power cords can do and costs about the same as a very nice power cord.

Very good point, Sfstereo.