@ejr1953 The Cary Audio link you posted is a general description with some general guidelines for Cary Audio amplifiers. Having owned various Cary tube amps and Cary SS amps both, I can share their solid state amp offering has its own sound signature too compared to other manufacturer SS amplifiers. Each of their tube amps sound different within their line as well.
With a SS amp, you are more pinned down to one sound of that amp. You can play with interconnect and speaker cables to help fine tune it a little more. With tube amps you can alter the sound with different input & output tubes some; while speaker impedance and speaker efficiency becomes more critical. Selecting well matched speakers for a particular tube amp can make a huge difference in how the entire systems sounds. Speaker selection is a key first step and it dictates what type and power level of amps to use in either case if you are looking to achieve a well matched setup.
With a SS amp, you are more pinned down to one sound of that amp. You can play with interconnect and speaker cables to help fine tune it a little more. With tube amps you can alter the sound with different input & output tubes some; while speaker impedance and speaker efficiency becomes more critical. Selecting well matched speakers for a particular tube amp can make a huge difference in how the entire systems sounds. Speaker selection is a key first step and it dictates what type and power level of amps to use in either case if you are looking to achieve a well matched setup.