Wow I want to thanks all who have responded, much appreciated. It looks like monoblocks are too expensive and means id have to power each one on manually. I know you can get some unit to power things on but I'd like to have the simplest solution with acceptable warm flat sound. A good solution might be to get stereo tube amp for the fronts and just use my denon for centre and rears. Just wish there were more multichannel tube amps, because then the sound from 5.1 would be more even between the speakers but I guess it would be too massive in size and not as reliable.
I spoke to a reputable amp repair guy I'm my area and he says that warm sound can be had from SS by maybe replacing some parts. Says that tube amps are not reliable as most have to be hybrid in order to dish out a lot of power. I'm not very technical in this aspect. All I know is that with my denon 3801 with about 150w or so at 4ohm and listening to Chris botti 5.1, when Yo Yo Ma begins playing, the cello doesn't sound as deep and full as when I was using the butler 5150 with 225w. With the Dared multichannel hybrid at 65w per channel. it was even worse. The repair guy suggested get affordable parasound SS and make some relatively cheap mods, as he says the design is decent and easier to repair than other brands.
I spoke to a reputable amp repair guy I'm my area and he says that warm sound can be had from SS by maybe replacing some parts. Says that tube amps are not reliable as most have to be hybrid in order to dish out a lot of power. I'm not very technical in this aspect. All I know is that with my denon 3801 with about 150w or so at 4ohm and listening to Chris botti 5.1, when Yo Yo Ma begins playing, the cello doesn't sound as deep and full as when I was using the butler 5150 with 225w. With the Dared multichannel hybrid at 65w per channel. it was even worse. The repair guy suggested get affordable parasound SS and make some relatively cheap mods, as he says the design is decent and easier to repair than other brands.