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
Probably blashpemy, but why not one or two Crown K2's to run the low end?

S/N ratio >100dB
Damping factor >3000

500w/ch @ 8
800w/ch @ 4
1250w/ch @ 2

1600w bridged @ 8
2500w bridged @ 4

All stable/continuous power ratings...

Not saying it's the baddest, because Crown also made a 10kW amp, but it required a 3-phase power circuit.
Here's another pair of big tube amps,

Tube Research GT800

4 Chassis, 1240 pounds and a bargain at $140,000.00 :^).
Whoaru99

I thought about Crown briefly, in particular the Crown "macro reference" which was monstrously powerful, but also had a bit of an audiophile reputation.

But I never heard one, and it mysteriously disappeared from the ratings as well as the audiophile scene.

So I dont know if they are really worthy of our hall of fame discussion here.
classe cam 350's.... finess with incredible current.... steal at the price imo....( i might be a bit biased since i own a pair)...

btw, muse monos are pretty good too...
Cwlondon, perhaps not. But I think often gear that does not have a certain name is usually deemed unworthy by audiophiles.

However, one thing that occurs to me is that reproducing "live" sound in the home is sometimes referred to as a goal. The point is that pretty much any live sound that is amplified is almost certainly amplified by pro audio amps such as Crown; not Levinson, Krell, or Halcro, et al.