Amp for rock/metal with high efficient speakers

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!

gotvai,somthing that ive found out is that there is no such thing as overkill or having to much power,the key is to chose amps that produce lots of CLEAN undistorted power,its far easier to overdrive a speaker with a weak amp being driven to the max than it is with a powerfull amp because the powerfull amp is always loafing,i know the speakers that you are refering to from discussions ive had with another member who is also buying them & from what ive seen of them they should be one hell of a speaker for you.

stevecham is correct that a mid that size will not give you a true midrange but i would think that the designer chose a mid that large to compensate for the horn tweet & to tame the normal horn sound that so many people find hard to listen to,i wouldnt sweat it too much as the types of music you listen to are not highly dependant on having world class mids,im pretty sure that your speaker will also have the option of having either the horn tweet or a ribbon tweet.

what ever you end up choosing for amplification your gonna end up having a lot of fun with your new speakers :)

mike.

some PA systems by JBL contain 10" "mid" drivers... basically if the woofer is 18" or 15" then 10" sounds kinda small.. you want to be on-axis when listening. midrange in this respect is probably between 350 and 2200 Hz. Older two way designs of course used 10" woofers crossing over to a tweeter in the 2k range: Dynaco's, Advents, JBL's, AR's, EPI, etc.

You need one of the higher monster amps, not only because of power or the fact tubes won't drive those 15's to well but fact is any high efficiency speaker in order to drive rock bottom bass in my opinion and experiance Needs as Much Current as possible, this has nothing to do with the size or Wattage an amp can produce really in comparison, because you can buy a Coda amplifier running 100 watts and still have 100 amps of current per channel, most large amps have this without needing to go to such high priced pieces and that is why most of the suggestions have been of high wattage amps, not really because you need 300 watts to drive 99 db speakers, but you need it to control those woofers and that comes in the form of HIgh current capabilities per channel, and many times equates to needing dedicated power supplys and many switching devices(Transistors) to do it, so you could go mono blocks and achieve all this as well. I suggest for the money, 2700.00 will get you about the highest current possible with high efficiency mono blocks on top of it and they don't even create heat in the room, ant those would be Odyssey Extreme mono blocks. Take a look at audio review.com and you will find how stellar these monos rock if you are truly interested in bullet proof and 20 year warranty amps. Oh and they sound incredible, but I do not own them, many here do however.