Is it any surprise that people describe tube components as sounding "warm" considering many tubes produce tactile heat? Whoever started that silliness didn't work too hard to come up with it.
Are tubes psychological?
This just occurred to me this morning as I listened in my rather dark listening room with the soft glow of tubed amps on the floor in front of me between the speakers: How much of my enjoyment of tubes gear is due to the relaxed state the glow puts my mind in?
Thoughts?