Is age bad for solid state amps?

i should be so lucky to reach the vintage that is steve and swampwalker. mucho respecto. (head bowed down)
cheers

Jorge- You flatter me, but to be mentioned in the same sentence w Steve Mc is an honor I do not deserve. I am a consumer of high end audio; Steve is a creator! There is no comparison. But many thanks for the kind words. As far as the OP's question, yes of course everything deteriorates w age ('cept for vintage winos like me and Steve) but unless your particular amp was v early in that model run, or was pushed hard w/o adequate ventilation (heat is a major killer of electronics) its likely to be good for quite some time.

Cheers
the muddy one

To sum up: Tubes die the quickest followed by hot running class A stuff. So there. I shall stick with my beloved 13 year old Class A/B amp until it leaks, blows up, or I feel like trading it in for something else...like a really expensive tube amp. Heh heh.

Output tubes die the quickest but they are user=replaceable in most cases (certainly in any amp I would buy, thank you very much ARC)

Transistors can be replaced. If matching transistors are unavailable, often times sets of different transistors can be retrofitted. Though this would probably be a relatively expensive procedure, one would have to consider what the costs would be compared to the much more likely need for frequent tube replacements over a similar time span. Furthermore, the quality of new tube replacements are somewhat suspect, which is evidenced by the ever escalating costs and decreasing availability of of NOS tubes. The likelihood that such a problem will occur with transistors in the realistic need/use of a ss amp is extremely low.