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Solid states more accurate than tubes?

Ever since I changed speakers from a pair of Maggie's to Proac's, I find the tonal balance more accurate with a ss, especially acoustic wood instruments. Tubes seem to lack that tonal accuracy. I believe it's a more realistic and accurate rendering. Is that a fair assessment? I'm not arguing tubes don't sound good with it's rich, warm sound but just not as accurate. 
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papafrgog
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Personally, I prefer tube sound over the SS gear I have listened to. But I have listened exhaustively to SS gear. I have all Aesthetix Eclipse models -Atlas, Janus, Romulus playing through new Raidho TD3.8s.  I've rolled low-noise NOS tubes (Tele & Amperex) to get the sound that I love. 

My only thought about using SS would be as separate phono pre, bypassing my Janus phono stage to lower the noise flow and to eliminate a low-level tube rush. I demo'd a new version Krell phono pre and really liked it.  Maybe the quietness of SS made me perceive the unit as presenting more accurate/detailed information.  

So as a follow-on question, which component benefits more from SS over tubes, or vice versa? 

  

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