Dreaming of a DIY 8W Class A amp designed by Nelson Pass?

Is this DIY 8 watt amp a chip amp?  What about the Nelson Pass First Watt amps, are they chip amps too?

I'm looking for an inexpensive SS amp to go with my Museatex AVC-1 preamp.  I have a PP EL84 amp already but don't want to run tubes all the time and would like to be able to have a relatively low powered SS amp to compliment this.  The speakers are 90 db Castle Durham 900's that are rated for a 15-85 watt amp.  I normally prefer a class a/b/ab Mosfet amp.

Thanks in advance! 

Good, as I'm not a huge fan of the chip amps.  I've owned at least 7-8 of them with different chips and while they all sound pretty amazing, in the end, they alll seem somewhat sterile and lifeless.  IMHO, they all need a tube preamp to warm them up

 
they alll seem somewhat sterile and lifeless. IMHO, they all need a tube preamp to warm them up

@lou_setriodes Nelson understands the importance of lower ordered harmonics since you can't eliminate distortion altogether (this is a lot bigger topic than there might be room for on this thread!). So his stuff doesn't have that dryness to which you allude above. But a good tube preamp shouldn't be particularly warm- just neutral :)

Perhaps using the word "warm" to describe tube sound isn't the right word.  Sweet sounding might be better, at any rate, with tubes, there's a certain something there - warm, sweet, euphonic whatever it is that just sounds so right and is to me more appealing than listening to solid state.  Maybe even order distortion is the term I'm looking for.  
 

Thank you Erik!

Tomorrow I'll be receiving an inexpensive Amp Camp clone that appears to be very well made; however, it's only 5 wpc instead of 8.  If it weren't for this thread, I would have probably never considered one of these.  Many thanks!  Looking forward to hearing it.  

https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649568662-amp-camp-amp/images/2473892/

Erik,
Sorry, I see I never responded, sobered goes, better late than never.  I liked the Amp Camp Amp @ 5 wpc, but just didn’t have the right speakers for it at the time.  I’d didn’t stay around that long because at the time I didn’t want to build a system around it. Later, I got a beautiful matching custom Fleawatt 20 wpc amp (3118dt chip) and tube-based passive line stage preamp that was truly gorgeous & outstanding matched with Omega Super 3XRSs