Amp for rock/metal with high efficient speakers

you asked,is a tube amp worth considering,NO they are not.

ive read your tastes in music but more important is your choice in speakers,im sitting here loking at your description & assuming that anybody who chooses speakers with 2 15 inch woofers plans to really get down & that you also like a good STRONG bass response,am i correct?

even though your speakers are 99db efficent your gonna need an amp with some serious balls to drive both them 15 inch woofers & a tube amp will get the life sucked right out of it,i have owned speakers that were 104 db efficent & tube amps did sound very good at lower listening levels but when i really wanted to mash on the volume the bass got very loose & squirley.

im sure there are guys who will dissagree but my belief is that tube amps are not well suited to heavy metal music at all,i listen to metal too & i have yet to find a tube amp that didnt turn to mush when i blast some tool or pantera,tube amps are not well suited at all to your music preferences & will sound very thin.

if you want to have the ability to really drive your speakers to their maximun potential then solid state high current high wattage amps are the way to go,everybody has their own idea of what loud is,my idea of loud music is when my neighbors windows rattle 3 houses down the street.

look into some of these amps.

krell, ksa 150 & ksa 250.

pass labs,x150 & x250 & x350

aragon, palladium monoblocks

mcintosh, mc2500 , mc2600 & mc500

parasound, halo monoblocks

bryston,way too many to list.

mike.

I have a pair of Klipsch Epics. They are 100dB efficient, yet can handle 250 watts continous with 1000 watt peaks.Even though yours are efficient as well, I am pretty sure they can handle some serious power. Hooked up to mine is a Rotel Rb991. It is 200 watts at 8 ohms and over 400 watts at 4ohms. They both rock together quite well. Just for fun look into the Rotel Rb1090. That will give you 350 watts per side and your speakers will rock.

I think Bigjoe said it best, I know what you're looking for, I have a pair of re-built/re-finished JBL-L200's circa 1973 and whereas with older 1960's jazz records, say Louis Armstrong with Duke Ellington, a tube amp is right, however with Robin Trower or Jeff Beck I think a good Krell, Bryston, or especially a Threshold 150 watter would do the trick.
Something about those 15" woof woofs! a certain visceral impact that smaller subs cannot emulate IMHO.

Gotvai, ten inch midrange drivers are an oxymoron. Please research this for your own sake; midrange cannot be produced effectively by this size of driver. It's a matter of physics. What you will get with such a driver is, at best, upper bass, but not true midrange.

Bigjoe - yes, I do need to let 'er rip from time and
time, and I am a bass freak. I've been leaning towards
SS because of good potential syngery with my tubed pre,
and I want speed and solid authority of the 15" woofs
at higher volumes. On the other hand, perhaps I will try a
good tube amp, just to satisfy my curiosity if nothing
else.

I am surprised to hear so many people suggesting beefy
high-powered SS. I was thinking such amps would be overkill
in my setup. Maybe not!

Stevecham - interesting point you raise about the 10"
mids, will have to ask Ty about it.

Thanks for all the responses so far!