Mono Block tube amp or Stereo Tube amplifier?

Almandog, The Onix really is more a power amp than an integrated. I use a preamp in front of it and it sounds great.

Macrojack, is this why Rush uses tubes? My point is that watts is watts, and tubes do just fine with any type of music : )

Check out -Antique Sound Labs- Hurricane, 200 watts per channel in standard mode and 100 watts per channel in triode mode. They are monoblocks and should work well for your application. I have only heard them run full range and not on your speakers, but they sounded very nice in the triode mode.

Better seperation, less cross-talk, can be place very close to your speakers and away from the rest of your rig. Cons- two PC and access to outlets, long IC but short SC , cost more.
Small gain in performance.......but gain nevertheless. Monos don't guaranty good performance. The synergy and quality does.

Bojack -

I don't know if RUSH uses tubes and I certainly don't know why they use tubes. But if I had to guess I would say it is because of the way they can make them distort.

The point I tried to convey is that tubes are better able to provide the delicate nuance available to the discerning listener of acoustic music. Amplified, cacaphonic noises can be conveyed by any kind of amplification, it is true, but why waste tubes on it?

Similarly, one cannot audition any kind of equipment with electrically amplified music because there is no live standard to compare it to. It always passes through electronics and it always comes through speakers. The best you can do is compare speakers to each other.