Is there a SS amp that can offer tube bliss?

Choice of amps depends more on the speaker. My speakers really need a good SS amp to drive them. The amps I use have a midrange to die for and people think they're tube amps (except for the bass):

Marantz Ma-5 Esotec monoblocs ( 30W class A ).

Also the Forté amps are really good. I have one also.

A great amp is a great amp: tube, SS, hybrid or digital.

What do tube amps sound like? I've heard Cary's, i've heard Audio Research and i've heard Atma-sphere's, etc.... All are tube amps but they sound NOTHING alike. Each has their own merits and run tubes, but classifying them together as sounding the same would make me think that someone was either deaf or there was one helluva "bottleneck" in the system somewhere. Sean
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Hmmm...I notice above that we again have the idea floated here that tube amps need 15 minutes to warm up, as if that were a relative disadvantage. Solid-state amps, in my - and many others' - experience, commonly need in the area of up to 8X that warm-up period or more in order to give of their best. Of course, since transistors for practical purposes don't wear out as opposed to tubes, many SS owners leave their amps always-on, but that option can be less attractive if the amp is biased heavily into class-A, or lacks a standby switch.

Anyway, I suspect the honest answer is "no", but there are probably some that offer transistor bliss...The real question may be: Is that bliss just as blissful? :-)

Plinius amps

The Bow Technologies Wazoo is a solid state design specially engineered to produce a tube-like sonic signature.