stereo amp vs monoblocks, any advantages?

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.

I was channeling Bevis with the "monoblocks are cool" statement but that aside other advantages of monoblocks:

if one goes down for repair you still can listen in mono

or run a center channel with the other

fill up the empty shelves on your audio rack

take up more discretionary income

I love monos, because I can keep my SCs real short.