Ok, lets clear up this myth about output impedance and also deal with the the question of amplifier transparency.
Most solid state amps have output impedance in the region 0.01-0.1 ohms at low and mid frequencies, rising a little at HF due to the output inductor and falling NFB. Typically you will see around 0.2 ohms at HF. This has practically no effect on frequency response (<0.1db) and ensures good electrical damping at driver resonance.
Now look at a range of tube amps and you'll see anything from 0.5 ohms to perhaps 7-8 ohms for SETS, low/no feedback designs or unusual stuff like Berning. Simon has rightly pointed out the effect high output impedance has on damping but that is only half the story. Look at the other half and all notion that these amps can offer high levels of transparency evaporate very quickly. Such amps are only viable if the impedance curve is flat and I'd argue that they should also be limited to use at MF/HF due to the lack of damping ability and often gross response manipulation at LF.
Some examples will show the effect and I've chosen the Prima Luna PL7 tube power amp as it's different transformer taps give different output impedance and so neatly illustrate the point.
These are response plots of the PL7 driving a simulated speaker load, ie something approximating reality rather than a simple resistor dummy load. The graphs show the effect of 8, 4.5 and 2 ohm output impedance:
With 8 ohms output impedance you can see that response variations reach +/- 3db and even at 2 ohms we are looking at +/- 1.6db.
These are
broad response variations and far more audible than narrow glitches. It blows any notion of transparency of faithfulness to the original signal out of the water unless your speakers have a flat impedance characteristic.
Now let's look at a different tube amp with 0.7 ohm output impedance. Benign you might think?
Oh no:
Here we see +/- 0.4db - better but still clearly audible as these are broad errors.
Now contrast all this with a Bryston 28B-SST amp at 0.06 ohms:
Much, much better!