Why Don't We See More High Current Electronics?

Foster,

Sorry to hear your still fighting bass and other issues. Your case is a tough one to get a handle on because I know you've tried so many things, including subs, and still have not yet scored completely.

Even if everything is matched well electronically, room acoustics and individual preferences still come into play in determining what sounds good.

Maybe a near field setup of some sort might be the best approach if you can get to that kind of setup in your room.

My best guess is the thing you need new most is a new room. Unfortunately, that is one of the hardest things to have to deal with.

My wife's very lively sun room, 12X12 with a cathedral ceiling, lots of windows and a hard tile floor is that way. What sounds spot on other rooms never quite gels completely in there. Generally there is too much bass and imaging and soundstage is not totally up to snuff. Fortunately for me that is only an auxiliary listening location so I am able to live with what I get there, though I have not given up on trying to get it perfect.

Wow, Map,
That would appear to be an awful space. Headphones, anyone?
I had some MG-1s in a 10x10 room with an 8' flat ceiling. now THAT was terrible. I had to swap the speakers L/R (they are marked) to make is sound right.

Current matters when you're driving difficult loads, and as Tvad mentioned, there's no real drawback. I value systems as follows: source=>preamp=>amp=>speakers. There's a ton of excellent speakers that are hard to drive (I've owned Apogee's, Eminent Technology, Celestion 700's, etc)and of course many excellent speakers I'd like to fool with at some point. I don't want my speakers telling me what amp I should use... I'm not sure why anyone would think this is not a sensible approach.

Peterayer, we agree on that- all the system can do is reproduce the recording as accurately as possible.

Hack, a high current amps prowess might be lost on a speaker with a 16 Ohm impedance.