Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first?


What do you guys think?

If transistors came first, and then decades later tubes were invented, would we have any tube amps we would call high end?

Wouldn’t they all fail to reach the height of performance and transparency set by transistor amps?

Best,

E

P.S. I love Conrad Johnson. I'm just wondering how  much of our arguments have to do with timing. 
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Or a pseudo sexual sadist. -Lee Deforest, channeled by the Kait thingy. 🍤

I may be dead but I’m not stupid, nor bound to outdated tech. -Lee Deforest, channeled by Kait thingy.
Man, I love peaches, hamburgers and eggplant!  Snakes?  Not so much. 🐍💩
Geoffscat, you are a hoot. But, like a 💩 in a punch bowl, an acquired taste. 🐍💩
No, man, the magic is in the dust taken from old tubes which, by inductance....🐍💩
I’m sure you understand tonnage is a volumetric measure, related to vessel lifting capacity. 🙀
“Tubes are for rubes.” -Lee Deforest, channeled by Kait thingy. 🐍💩

Many of us listen to orchestral music, and don’t care for the screeching wail of electrically amplified instruments, which sounds like a cat in heat.  🙀🐍💩
“Tubes, like me, are dead.” -Lee Deforest, channeled by the Kait thing from reconstituted and revivified artificial atoms. 🐍💩
“Boy, the flapping and hissing doubled once the truth came out.” -Lee Deforest 
Pity the snakes!  Run, boys, the rendering truck is on the road. 💰👀🙀
If I want any more sheet out of you I’ll squeeze your head.

Mrs Kait at conception. 
@analo. “P.T.Barnum is standing next to me, and says there is one born every minute.”  -Lee Deforest, channeled by the Kait thingy. 
Arf, arf!

Well, here I sit, turbine damaged hearing and all, loving my solid state gear. 

Time to light up the wheelchair turbine....🙀
Why not, you do regularly as some weird form of pseudo sexual sadism. 🙀

The guy seems quite sanguine to your fixation with him. 
Oh, he wouldn’t know a differential diagnosis from a hole in the ground. Scroll in the ground?💩🐁
“ The captain made a trumpet of his ass and tooted.“  (ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta)

Canto XXI
More pseudoscience, speculation and conjecture predicated upon ad hominems. Shame on you.

You cite nothing other than your worthless, methane imbued ipse dixit. 💩

Many, I suspect, like me left tubes in the late sixties, and have used solid state ever since, hence your non sequitur.  Regardless of physiologic changes, tubes suck. -Lee Deforest
Pseudoscience, speculation and conjecture, sprinkled with subjective horse poop. 

Tubes are dead. Lee Deforest, somewhere in the Lake of Boiling Bloid.