Stereo or monoblocks

Especially if you have speakers of less than 8 Ohms, speaker cables can be critical- monoblocks allow the speaker cables to be shorter, thus reducing the artifact they might impose. If the monoblocks have balanced inputs, this can allow the interconnect cables to have no 'sound' of their own as well.

The power supplies of the amps are obviously not shared so the power for the amp will be cleaner. This can allow the amplifier lower IMD which is audible. Because there can be less current limitation to the power supply bass impact can be improved.

I recently went to a pair of Mc611's with a c49 after trying many different stereo combinations. I wish I would have tried mac a long time ago. Speakers are Kef Blades.

Thanks for all the advice guys.

Those are nice speakers and Power amp. 400 a side will do fine The mac is a great brand.

Compression driver means efficiency and Jbl dual woofer want current

he mac should provide well.

Crazy enough Crown Comtech units are cheap and would provide very cost effective power  in mono blocks.

So I'm at a crossroads... I presently have two tube monoblock amps that can act as separate integrated amps (80wpc/8o). I feel like I'm losing some of the value since I'm paying for an integrated amp, but only using one amps features. I do like the sound, but I'm wondering if two 8k integrated amps paired in mono would out shine a 18k integrated amp built specifically that way from the ground up?

So if price being equal, but one is a integrated that can act as a mono amp, would it outshine a dedicated equally priced (in principal more expensive) stereo amp?

Thoughts?