Solid State to replace Audio Research REF110?

I found a Pass Labs XA30.5 in the second hand market and bought it. After some setup with cabling I find it sounds really well, mid bass is characteristic of solid state, it remembers me the AR 100.2 I had some years ago. Mids are very good, maybe not as good as REF110, and highs are very clear without sounding hash or analitical at any time. Soundstage is terrifing, I would say in the same league than REF110.
I have to listen it and take conclusions if it is enought satisfactory to replace the REF110. Both amplifiers sound different but enjoyable, I think.

My other doubth is if a Pass Labs XP-10 preamp could sound better than my AR REF 3 with the XA30.5. Maybe I will open another post.

Many thanks for posting and give advice.

Ayre - can't think of another amp that would be comparable

I guess I would ask the OP if the blown tube was an ARC tube, or from a different seller. ARC stands by their tubes and offers a warranty for a time period to include repairs. I have owned five different ARC tube amps, VT100mk2 through my current Ref150. The only time I had an issue was when I bought tubes from another supplier to save some cash. That cost me plenty, so I recommend ARC tubes for ARC gear.
Also, ARC does not fuse the amps in this way for performance reasons. If you want a lower performing tube amp which will blow a fuse, those are available.
I will say that I am seeing these solid state amps recommended as alternatives and having owned many of them, well, they are not in the same ballpark as your Ref110. That said, I do own an Ayre VX-5 which is a great solid state amp. Note that this is NOT the V5xe.
Just my .02

There are lots of tube amps that can equal or out-perform ARC amps AND have fused protection for the output tubes. Any output device tube or solid state can fail. A design that results in a major, $$, cascading failure as a result of a reasonably anticipated event, IMO, is not "good" design. Flame away.

Swampwalker, I've been down "tube arc road" several times. Yes ... it's true, most times the tube arc took a bias resister out. But no flames, explosions, cascading oscillations that blew speakers, or Fourth of July explosions and sparks.

Yes ... it's also true that replacing the bias resisters is a PITA. Fortunately, there's an ARC authorized service tech about a 30 to 40 minute drive to my house who happens to make house call. It takes the rep about 30 minutes to pop in a new resister and I'm back in business pretty quickly.

Gary (Hifigeek) is an authorized ARC service tech. Perhaps he can bring some perspective to this issue. My guess is that this is more of a tube thing than a design thing. Tubes arc -- period. When they do, they will pop a fuse or a resister. If one owns tube gear -- this goes with the territory. Just my opinion.