I fully understand the question/poll on the subject but after another week I can absolutely say the monos are pretty damn awesome. Weather they help accent the cobs I wouldn't have a clue. But the additional temperature diodes does make sense to me.
Under the Amare I have 10 plants in flower using cobs and monos. In another room I have 5 more in veg just under the Amare monos, then in another room I have 5 under a 315 lec. From all my reading everyone has always said the lec was one of the best veg lights going and it even has enough to bring plants to produce well in flower. Lec pulls around 340 at the wall and the Amare monos are pulling 168 watts at the wall and the Amare side is just a touch bigger and at half the wattage. When they grow a little bigger then the option to flip the cobs on and another 300 watts of power.