Hey, look, we found another guy that cares about his stereo but doesn't want to hear about making things better for a single other human being on the entire planet.
For him and guys like him, I'd like to make two further observations.
1. 2 + 3 = 5
2. Whomever you love on this planet, it's been too long since you told them.
Tube amps? Hey, I had to give mine up due to thermal constraints so sometimes the other senses have an objection that the sense of hearing must hear. The hybrid tube/ss topology is soooo intriguing, that, well, why mess around, now that you've landed here you'll HAVE to try it... you know it's true...
But, you know, here's another approach--vet the manufacturer first. Since you know already that you can live with a mere 35 watts, get an ultravalve... confirm that AVA makes great amps... then dip your toe in the hybrid pool?
I tried both and they were really very close. Frank makes that statement from time to time, that his amps are converging in sonic qualities and it's an interesting process that is unfolding (on the scale of decades, now?) in the tube-ss contrast, as distortion gets systematically eliminated from systems when new designs emerge. So in some sense, it's a bit of a freebie as to where you start, since what you get from the AVA brand nowadays is not so much a topology as a steadfast attack on distortion, slew rates, and all the usual gremlins that remind us that the performer is not in our living room... together with the kind of honesty and ethics that is both normal and rare.
