Powerful Push Pull Triode Amplifiers

Thanks to all.
If I won the lottery, the amps that I would buy first are the Atma-Sphere MA-3s. I think they would sound glorious with my speakers.
In lieu of a lottery win, I will stick with my Manley 250s and try and squeeze a bit more juice out of them by adding some big Elrod power cords. I am also going to try and lighten their workload by adding an electronic crossover. They will then only have to amplify frequencies over 75Hz (maybe even 105Hz; we'll see).

Altec 1570B monoblocks (when modded by Tom Tutay) using 811's in triode for 160 wpc...

This is what I've discovered regarding authority and ease at high volume levels...

1. Adding a 20amp Elrod Statement power cord to my power conditioner made a huge difference. (It replaced an excellent Harmonix Studio Master 20amp cord).

2. Adding an electronic crossover didn't make any difference.

3. Using 450 wpc amps (VTL 450s) in place of my 125 wpc amps didn't make any difference.

This has me thinking that I may just be in need of -better- power, not -more- power.

There is a lot to be said for clean power! Clean power means you can run the amps close to (but not) clipping and still have them be musical.

MBLs being what they are it is nice to have some power behind them, but FWIW the difference between 220 watts and 440 is only 3 db, which is only just detectable as a volume difference to the human ear- IOW, slight.

So if you have things set up right you should be able to get by with less power. That will open the door to a number of excellent possibilities!

It sure will and at the top of my list of "excellent possibilities" is your MA-2 mkIIIs.

One question...what difference would the:

"1/4 Farad of power storage capacity per channel" in the MA-3, make vs. the MA-2 mkIII's "1100 Joules/chassis".

Since I don't know how to do the Farad-to-Joules conversion, I'm not sure what these numbers are telling me.

For what it's worth, my amps are "3800uF x 2".

Thanks.