Quietest amp you ever owned ?


A few years ago I had the little Antique Sound Labs MG SI 15 DT integrated and was impressed how quiet it was; in other words with the amp on and no music playing it was dead quiet when I put my ear right up to the drivers on the speaker. I am curious what other amps out there are as dead quiet since most amps have a slight hum or hiss that can be heard when music is not playing. At the time I was using Coincident Conquest speakers which are pretty efficient.
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My nomination is a tossup between the Tom Evans Linear A and the Wavelength Triton. Both are quieter than any of the SS amps I've owned - so quiet that with my ear inside the 97dB speaker cones I can't tell if they're running. This is with the Tom Evans Vibe line stage, because all the other preamps I have except for a TVC add way more noise than either of these amplifiers.

Noise on the Wavelengths was measured during construction at .12 mV or 120 microvolts... Both are super-quiet, but the Linear A manages to put more music in front of that black background - but that's a topic for another thread.