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Newbi seeking advise - why tubed pre-amp?

I am looking for an integrated amp for my small home office to drive a pair of Energy Veritas 2.1 bookshelf speakers, and am thinking about getting a tube integrated amp, although I have never owned any tube equipment before. I see there are some amps, such as Julida 1501 that comes with a SS amp section but tubed preamp. I understand why people may want a tube amplifier with how it handles distortions and etc, but why tube pre-amp? Why adding coloration to the signal before it reaches the amplifier? Don't you want it to be as pure as possible? This is just as confusing as tubed DACs (some Sonic Frontier I saw before). Please advise.
loujo

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Tubes are not always the key for bringing musical reproduction from any given system IMO, on one hand it softness some of the digital sonic artifacts that many CDPs bring into the signal chain but on the other it may bring some colourations not present in the original recording event.

I like tubes, and have had them for a while (currently in my CDP), but there are some trade-offs one should always consider.

My two cents

Fernando
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