TUBE AMP LOVERS - What SS amp makes you smile???


I'm looking for input from tube amp lovers that have switched from tube to solid state amplifiers and not looked back.

What tube amp did you move on from?

What SS amp provided the same level of musicality, keeping you smiling for the long-haul?

Thanks.
barrelchief

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Right now I have only one amp to recommend, namely the H-Cat X-10 MkIII that just far exceeds any amp that I have ever heard. For many years, I had only tube amps and preamps. I loved featherweight 1.56 watt amps on very high efficiency speakers, usually with poor bass response. Larger tube amps for less efficient speakers always lacked the realism I heard with the low output tube amps.

I ended my tube amp life with the Reimyo PAT-777 300B amp on Behold single driver speakers. I fell in love with the Tidal speakers and bought them. The Reimyo would drive them, but when I tried the LSA Statement amp, it was far superior.