All depends on your speakers. If you have fairly efficient speakers and enjoy buying power tubes then no problem. Tube amps are great but there is cost of running them and most don’t play well with some speakers. Cost wise for most it’s better to run a tube preamp with a SS amp. I feel in general there’s a bigger sound difference between preamps, so buy the best preamp you can and spend what you can on an amp. Tube amps tend to cost more per watt, and in some cases it can cost more to re-tube an amp than the value of the amp on the used market. Again, I say a lot has to do with the speakers you own and your budget.
