Affordable SS that sound like Tubes

I second the McIntosh MA252. I have mine sitting next to a Rogue Audio tube amp because I like to go back and forth between the two and sometimes I couldn’t tell you which is which depending on the music. I switched out the input tubes with Mullards and that seems to have made the difference. The only bad part is that the McIntosh is easily punchier in the bass and dynamics so sometimes my tube amp doesn’t look so hot. Yes it’s $4500 but it has a bunch of cool features for the price and 160wpc rated drives my Maggie’s easily. I’d suggest you audition one if you can swing $4500. 

Any Pass amp, Any Parasound amp designed by John Curl, the Atma-sphere class D amps. 

@tonydennison "..I am looking for suggestions on affordable SS that sounds as good as Tubes."

Aren’t we all. Best of Luck on that.

Plan on spending 5x the cost of your Quicksilver tube amps to try and get closer to "there" with solid state. I say this having an upgraded true Class-A 50w SS amp sitting here from Pass/Forte’. When you find affordable SS that sounds "as good as tubes", let us know. People have been trying and wishing for this, for decades.

You might fool yourself for a while with a used Firstwatt SIT-3 for a while, if you wanna try. They come up for sale every once in a while from the last try’er.

@vonhelmholtz  I use streaming services only to audition music. If I like a record enough to purchase I look DSD or as high a resolution I can find and purchase it. I am a DSD file guy. I look at streaming like someone in the 70's looked at radio.

Tube smoothness and musicality with SS detail and impact:

Atma-Sphere Class D. $5400 Killer!