Verity audio finn

Agree the OP should change for the right reason.  Looking at the preamp and sources are important.  

 That being said, not all tube amps are noisy.  Art Audio is highly selective with its transformers to ensure the amps are absurdly quiet.  Part of that is driven by our amps mostly serving height efficiency (100dB+) speakers that are very sensitive to even the tiniest amount of transformer hum.

These auto bias, have solid state rectification and typical tube life is 3000 hours.  These are as good as it get with tube amps.  Replace the tubes every few years and it’s like you have a new amp.  

Also, these generate no more heat than a typical Class A amp.  That being said, Class A amps do generate a lot of heat.  

No verdant all tube amplifiers have a much greater amount of audible noise vs solid state amplifiers.

Even with the worlds best output transfomers you still have audibile noise. 

Listen to the best in solid state you will hear 0 noise through the speakers.

Not to mention there are a ton of great tube amplifiers as well.

Agreed that they are noisier than solid state but “noisy” is relative.  There are lots of tube amps that you hear the second you turn them on.  Others are really quiet.  Not as quiet as a fully balanced solid state, no question, but they don’t need to be noisy.  

Cheap tube amps have an audible hum from the transformers and lots of noise through the speakers.  Better amps with better transformers are much quieter.   

Verdant of course the amplifiers you import are magically quiet.

We have sold  many major brand of tube amplifiers out there, from Mastersound, Unision Research, ARC,Vac, Conrad Johnson, Manley Labs, Cary audio, and others.

We have sold Class A, Class A/B, push pull, single ended and hybrids.

All tube amplifiers have an inherantly higher noise floor compared to solid state devices, most audiophiles consider this part of the natural limitations of a tube amplifier.

We are not saying your tube amplifiers aren't good, but sheesh man, the first thing you do is hit on this guy to look at one of your amplifiers when the reason for him even moving out of the amplifier he has is silly.

The OP should evaluate all of his components and what he is trying to accomplish. If his Spectral amplifier is a good amplifier perhaps he needs to upgrade his source, or his preamp or his cabling.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ