stereo amp vs monoblocks, any advantages?


Are there any advantages to using a pair of monoblocs as opposed to a single stereo amp, apart from extra power, that is. If so, what do you gain sonically from this?
thomastrouble
I went from 1 amp to 2 and aside from the obvious power increase and all the benefits from that, I'm now getting better channel separation and imaging. As an unintended byproduct, they also provide nice heat sources in the winter for a north-facing living room as well as the aforementioned "cool" factor as all those tubes just glow their little hearts out... Now that I'm there, I wouldn't have it any other way.
you guys are funny. 1)Less cross talk. 2)no distortion caused by the propagation of the two channels through the system(signal Interferance). 3) indvidual power supplies, which are the most important part of the amp. it's what serves the juice to drive the speakers(cleaner stronger power do to the fact that two channels are not sharing one power supply transformer. especially during the most demanding times.). 4) more powerful, watts per channel. 5) monos tend to be the flag ships with the latest and best available technology. and besides much cooler looking.
O.K. I'll bite and leaving "cool" aside.Kindly explain,if you have one amp that employs two separate amps in the same chassis utlizing individual power supplies,no sharing of transformer,no cross talk and the equivalent power output to both speakers,what,other than shorter speaker cabling are the sonic advantages.
Markwatkiss - no advantage but I can think of one disadvantage: two power cords (good cords might be expensive).
Whenever I lift my 75 lb stereo amp, seems like monoblocks would be pretty nice. They'd probably even sound better to me.