Playing with the idea of solid state amps

I would highly consider CJ's premier 350 it runs warm but not hot. The pass will run quite warm to hot because of circuit topology. Both are exellent amps.

Chuck

Go odyssey, maybe the extreme dual mono, I went from several tube units, Rogue, Cary, love the odyssey, I heard and liked a Ayre for about 1500.00 used, and Threshold, Sunfire, mcCormack, forget it the odyssey takes the cake, especially with the low risk of money... The extreme gives you 120 amps of current per channel, 180,000 mf of capacitance, and built with Plinith transformers, and WBT binding posts standard,,, none of these amps for anywhere near the price get you that close, The sim audio I think will only get to 30 amps per channel peak, And most other manufacturers do not even give you those specs. In my experiance the Higher current Solid state design you can get the more liquid and tube quality(closer) you can obtain. Plus You can try an odyssey for an audition and no questions asked return, but they take a nasty amount of breakin time just like the rest of the Transistor based units.

Hi,
if you 're coming from "tubes", like me , a Plinius Sa Ref. is ,imho,a must to audition.

Sandro

I too have had a long held bias (no pun intended) for tubes, but there are some very nice SS amps out there. I respect Ayre and Sim Audio but they are not quite my cup of tea. I think the McCormack is very good. My favorite, though, enough so that it will soon be a new addition to my household, is the Hovland Radia.

My experence and recent desires are just like yours. I just sold my Wright Sound 3.5 SET tube monoblock amps for a 400 watt/channel SS amp. I tried many.

I purchased a Mcintosh MC401 SS amp. It is wonderful. I also suggest these,

Blue Circle SS amps - any of them!
Belles 350 or 150 reference

The Mac is the best of this group in my home, but these are all what your looking for.

Bill