Personally I would try a tube amp. I have the 30.8 and the First Watt J2 and F6 and have compared many other solid state amps to my Decware Zen triode as well as the Feliks Arioso 300B amp. I always hear what I would call grain from the solid state amps. I am using very efficient speakers so I can get away with 2 and 8 watts but I think there is some tube magic that is hard to get from solid state. The 30.8 is a real powerhouse and sounds more like 3X that much power to me. The F6 is a more delicate sound and the J2 is somewhere in between. The 30.8 is the only amp I have that will power the Maggie LRS and I hear it's character different with those speakers compared to the couple different high efficiency Klipsch speakers I have here. As warm as the 30.8 is compared to other solid state it's still nothing like a tube amp to my ear and hard to come back from that grainless and seductive non fatiguing sound.