Is there a SS amp that can offer tube bliss?

What is the "tube sound" anyway. What I remember is a faint hissing, and then a soothing hum when the volume is turned up.:)

How old is that memory?

Eldartford - the only "hum" I get from my system appears to be coming from Glenn Gould.

The nice thing about buying well-engineered tube gear is the silence that is broken only by the appearance of musicians in the listening room :-)

Gliderguider...I hope you realize I was jerking your chain :)
Yes, engineering does have a lot to do with it. Many years ago I built a Heathkit preamp. It had what seemed to be miles of hand-twisted and shielded wire, some of it encased in spring-like outer sheaths. It was very difficult to construct. It hummed. The next preamp I built was a Dyna Kit. It had not a single piece of shielded wire, was easy to construct, and (almost) dead silent.

The good tube equipment that I have heard does not hum enough to be a problem. (Audible only with volume up and no signal). On the other hand, I have never had any hum from SS equipment, except when there was a ground loop needing correction. I think this is because ss circuits run at low impedance, and are less susceptible to magnetic fields.

Yes, I just couldn't pass up the "Glenn Gould" crack :-)

It has amazed me, though, to hear less noise from a combination of tubed DAC, tube preamp and tube power amps, than I was used to hearing from my SimAudio 4070 sand amp.

Engineering is king.