Is there a SS amp that can offer tube bliss?

The Carver series of TFM...transfere function modified...amps, monos 7t, and 9t, and various stereo models, are transistor amps specifically designed to sound like tube amps. Carver built the Silver Seven awsome tube amp, then copied its transfere function into several subsequent transistor models, to prove that two amps can be made to sound alike if their transfere functions can be matched. He had this theory that the transfere fuction of an amp is what gives it its particular sound. Anyway, I believe that there is a March 1993 issue of Stereo Review or Audio magazine where you can read about this. According to what I have read, he did seem to prove his theory about transfere function and the sound of an amp. Also, I personally think the whole thing about tube sound is over rated: I have had lots of amps, both tube and transistor, and I personally prefere the transistor ones. I still keep my Marantz 8b on display in my room, and will probably never sell it. It was the frist 'high end' piece of equipment I ever saw when my father brought it home in 1963, so it really has (nolstalgic)...if I spelled that right...value to me. But you know how I get around the tube /vs/ transistor (delimma)...if I spelled that right also...I use a tube preamp, with a transistor amp. This way, I have the best of both worlds: I get that tight controlled fast bass that good transistor amps are known for, with all those sweet mids and highs, and supposidly great imaging, that tubes amps are know for. This might help psycologically also: I ultimately chose this route, because I read an article in Stereophile magazine that said this was the best way to go. But don't ask me which issue, however, because I chucked them all out years ago. So there you have it, a solution to your problem, and from, indirectly, an authoritative source. Oh, by the way, the being who wrote the article in Stereophile was an alien from a planet in the Andromedia Galaxy. It was later learned that he traveled to earth specifically to save mankind from ultimate cataclysmic war over this debate. His hearing range, it was also later learned, was far beyound any signal capable of being generated by primative earthling audio amps. As good as some 'audiophiles' in fact. lol.

I've been using tube amps for 36 years, and the closest solid state amp, that I have listened to for a length, is the Parasound Halo amps. I've only listened to the big monblocs, so these would be my choice, instead of tube amps.

i have tube 300b pushpull. the ss is proceed . they only differ in the low bass and how loud they can play.

Best substitute: Pass Labs Aleph amps. The Aleph 3,5,or 4 amps or any of the monoblocks will offer the jaw-dropping tube bliss. They can be bought on Audiogon for peanuts considering the incredible value you get but careful system matching can be tricky.

Dear Samwise: You, like the 95% of the people in this forum are tube lovers: I respect that, anyone have the right to live in the mistake for ever. Let me explain: all tube electronics are the more expensive equalizers that you can find ( a bad one ): when a signal goes through a tube the tube generates harmonics that does not exist in the signal ( so the tube function like a sound generator ), the problem is that we can hear that inexistents harmonics in the original signal, great!.
Other issue with tubes: the frecuency response of a tube amp changes with the changes in the impedance of the speakers: great equalizer! ( this is one of the reasons why the tube electronics have a degraded sound reproduction at the extremes of the audio frecuency response ( for understand this issue you have to have a full range loudspeaker in your audio system ).
So: When do you really can hear what is in the recording when you are using tube electronics?, answer: NEVER, nobody can, the phisics laws are the phisics laws and nobody can change it.
I know that everibody there loves this equalized sound, no problem with this, understand: I'm not against the tube electronics: I'm in favor of the music, that's all.. But all of you are very far from the music than the people that have SS electronics ( today there is no SS sound. This is a myte of the past ).
All of you, music lovers, have to give you a chance to hear the reallity of the music reproduction with SS at your home: it is a different sound?, shure it is: it is nearest to the music. Yes, you have to re-equalized your ears and mind.
Not only I but anyone can probe what I'm speaking here. All the tube manufacturers knows that ( but that is their business ), the reviewers knows that ( but that is their business ), the dealers know that ( but that is their business ). ( take a look to the review of the Wavac SH-833 amplifier that has a retail price of only: 350,000.00 dls ).
Tube lovers ask you why John Atkinson, Larry Greenhill, Anthony Cordesman, R. Harley,... use SS electronics in their audio system.
Sam is up to you.
Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.