Intergrated or Solid State Whats The Difference ?

An intergrated just means that there is a preamp and an amp,within the same chassis. They come in SS or with tubes---they both also come with varying amounts of power.

And there are stereo amps and mono block amps. Stereo amps have two amplifiers contained in one chassis, one for each of the left and right channels. Monoblocks essentially split the chassis in two so that there is a physically seperated chassis, one for for each channel. Both of these configurations come in both tube and solid state versions, and, as, Avguygeorge states above, in varying amounts of power outputs. One hopefullly chooses an amp(s), regardless of configurations, that have sufficient power to meet the requirements of the connected speakers.

Hap,

Keep reading, it will start making sense to you in a while. Concerning your questions:

An integrated amp is a pre-amp and a power amp built in one chassis.

A solid state amp uses transistors for amplification and a tube amp uses tubes for that function.

Mono-block simply means that there in only a mono amp built on the chassis. For stereo (2-channel) you would need a pair of mono-block amplifiers.

Tube amps can be anywhere between about .5 watts/channel and several hundred watts/channel. They can come in mono-block layout or they can be stereo (2 channel) amps.

I hope this helps a bit.

Enjoy,

TIC