Well a lot of us think that tubes, whether they be in a preamp, amp, or dac, don't necessarily add colorations or distortions. Personally I think a well executed tube circuit, a la my Supratek preamp or Cary amps, is inherently more linear than SS and as an added bonus it sounds a lot better. You really ought to try it some time, you might like it. Really.
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.