"Warm Sounding" Solid State Amplifiers


As a Canadian I am naturally a huge fan of Bryston products but not long ago I switched things up for a NAD C355BEE integrated amp and instantly realized what I had been missing in terms of warmth, sweetness and overall pleasant sound.

I'm interested in moving up from there into some Class A or A/B amps but I don't know of any other warm sounding Solid State amps other than Pass Labs which are out of my price range at the moment.

Tubes are obviously "where it's at" as they would say but the maintenance factor is somewhat of a deterrent for me. Should I just go for an M series NAD amp or is there another intermediate product between that and Pass Labs??
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Old Audio Research SS amps {from 1989 to 1993} are warm sounding. So is GAS and Sumo.

All Pass Labs "Class A" and Ampzilla 2000 power amps are warm sounding IMO.
+1 Csontos

There are quite a few "great" sounding SS amps, now, and, as far back as the late 70's!