Best Class A amp with SLAM

Thanks Bo for the clarification and interesting comments. I don't want to hijack this thread into a cable discussion. Er, well maybe too late...

Not got the Atma yet, taking very long :-)

I have tried a dozen Class A Amplifiers which I settled for the Clayton M300. It had everything I was looking for. At the moment they are running my Legacy Whisper XD with DSP in the chain and the transparency with the liquid midrange is as best as I have heard in any SS Amplifiers.

I am in the process of modifying my Bob Carver 305 Amplifiers with Caps upgrade.

The BEST amp with slam is probably the one that can do it best with most any speaker that is up to the task in most any room.

This cannot be held as a universal truth. The problem is that certain speakers will not have the right impedance curve in the bass to allow a solid state amp to do its thing, yet that same amp might be find on other speakers. Matching plays a big role.

Probably true.

Amp + speakers both matter. Biggest baddest amp + biggest baddest most efficient full range speakers with slam to match probably wins in the end. COuld be a commercial system geared towards a large venue or arena most likely and overkill for most any home.

In most peoples homes, even with larger rooms and higher volumes, it might be impossible to determine the best amp or combo in that many could test one's slam tolerance in practice. It's just a much smaller scale problem there.

I have to say that with Audyssey pro I can play so much louder than without would be possible. It is a way of freedom what is priceless.