You're comparing apples, oranges, and kumquats. Here are the basics:
There are two basic kinds of amps: solid state and tube.
An integrated amp is a combination of a preamp (the control center, with volume and tone controls, among other things) and a power amp, which does the actual amplification. An integrated can be either solid state or tube.
A monoblock amp is a single-channel amplifier. In other words, for a stereo system, you'd need two of them, one for each channel. Again, they can be either solid state or tube.
Tube amps generally offer much less power than solid state, and have much higher measured distortion. Tube partisans offer a variety of rationalizations for why this is irrelevant, and why tubes are better anyway. To each his own.
But tubes are definitely not for neophytes. I'd strongly recommend that you stick to solid state until you've moved further up the learning curve.
There are two basic kinds of amps: solid state and tube.
An integrated amp is a combination of a preamp (the control center, with volume and tone controls, among other things) and a power amp, which does the actual amplification. An integrated can be either solid state or tube.
A monoblock amp is a single-channel amplifier. In other words, for a stereo system, you'd need two of them, one for each channel. Again, they can be either solid state or tube.
Tube amps generally offer much less power than solid state, and have much higher measured distortion. Tube partisans offer a variety of rationalizations for why this is irrelevant, and why tubes are better anyway. To each his own.
But tubes are definitely not for neophytes. I'd strongly recommend that you stick to solid state until you've moved further up the learning curve.