Warm sounding ss power amps

I have a Audio Research 100.2 SS amp. This is a beautiful sounding amp. All the beauty of tubes without the hassle of warm up time, tube biasing, etc. This is a real sleeper in the Rudio Research line. Almost never seen on the used market. People really hang on the this amp.

Bright systems are often a function, in part, of bright rooms. Acoustic damping/diffusion could help a lot, especially sidewalls at the point of first reflection. I agree also that cleaner AC will really open up the upper-mids by removing grain and hash. You might try cables, too. I've found solid core copper to be the warmest type.

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Since you didn't indicate what budget you have, I can suggest to you the following ss amps: McCormack DNA-0.5 or DNA-1.0, Classe CA-10 and Plinius SA-100II. These amps have enough muscle to drive almost any speakers out there and have a warm presentation AS WELL as being transparent/detailed. As for the brightness factor, it really boils down to one component or a combination of different things (as mentioned earlier). Although, some people have indicated that a room has as much play in bright-sounding systems as the components themselves, then again, if the whole synergy of the system is INHERENTLY bright, then room manipulation could only help so much.

Check out the Clayton Amplifier line...they have a remarkable, warm but detailed, tubey quality midrange.