Warmer sounding Solid State

"Tres Payments" makes a point I've carped (that's right...carped!) about here and there...all the amp makers claiming a "tube like sound"...tubes are more tube-like than otherwise. Example: I, along with other older guitar players, was tricked (that's right...tricked!) into trying some SS guitar amps back in the day (that's right...the day!) and after an initial seduction period said, "no no no" and went right back to Boogies and Marshalls and Fenders, etc. I like tube hifi more than ANY SS stuff, and so should everybody else...I do have a Class D Ampeg bass amp though...it's actually kind of cool and weighs exactly 1/67th of an SVT, but ignore that for the purposes of this post.

An expert amp designer recently noted here someplace that harsh speaker treble with SS amps is simply the nature of transistors...I've owned SS amps that weren't harsh particularly, but the tube amps I've owned and prefer these days have a more natural treble response.