Best SS amps with sound similar to tube amps

darTZeel NHB-108.

not ss sounding; but not warm and slow either. sweet and smooth as butta, but with slam and micro-dynamic life. very neutral and very low noise floor.

clarity, clarity, clarity......but no sterility or brightness.

needs a speaker with reasonable efficiency and benign impedence curve. 100 watts into 8 ohms (Stereophile measured 160 watts before clipping).

mated with the darTZeel NHB-18NS battery powered preamp it has astonishing performance.

best amp i have yet heard.

sounds like music.....not ss.....or tubes for that matter.

a sge gentlemen named victor khomenko from BAT informed me after he introduced Bat's first solid state amp that in spite of his best efforts, he could not create a tube amp which was indistinguishable from the sound of his tube designs.

after careful listening the presence of a solid state amp is evident.

it is interesting to try to find a solid state amp which has the "warmth" of a tube amp, if one ceepts the premise that tube and solid state designs sound different.

i have personally listened to numerous soild state designs.
none of them resemble the sound of a vintage tube amp.

if one is referring to amps in production in 2006, i am not aware of any amplifiers--tube or solid state, with power rating excceding 75 watts which sound warm.

I totally agree with Mikelavigne. The darTZeel sounds the most like music vs other amps I have tried. I call it my music machine.

AYRE is the only way to go

Conrad Johnson Premier 350 tube like solid state is their forte.