The ups and downs of tube vs. SS...

"Should I go for it?"
Yes!  It reputed to be a very good push pull tube amplifier. Put a tube amplifier in your system, listen and judge for yourself. I believe that you'll like what you hear. 
Charles 

It isn't "baloney " If someone prefers tubes compared to solid state,  just as it isn't baloney if the preference is for solid state.  It isn't baloney if someone says that they enjoy tubes and solid state  equally.  Subjectivity allows all of these preferences to be perfectly valid (and expected).

Tweed,
Tubegroover makes two really salient points,
1 Proper speaker and amplifier mating is mandatory, it truly is the metaphorical marriage. A high  quality tube amplifier can sound poor with the wrong speaker choice.

2 There are definitely tube power amplifiers that are very easy on tubes and there are tube with inherently long tube life. In some cases you can go years before having to change these tubes. For one example I currently use a tube (EML XLS 300b) where older versions are approaching 40,000 hours of use and yet continue to test new! That’s a lot of years of music loving enjoyment 😊. I believe for another example that the Atnma-Sphere OTLs provide long tube lifespan. These in addition to what Tubegroover mentioned above.
Charles

Hundreds of threads on this topic over the years with hundreds more to come. As most here will likely concede either choice is capable of producing very good sounding components, that has been my experience.

If I could only have one I would choose tubes. Why? In my opinion tubes at the end of the day just sound more natural. I believe this is what Schubert, Lou_setriodes and Atmosphere are expressing. The ear has the innate  ability to detect and identify natural character (real vs artificial). I believe that tubes come "closer" to real.  I concede that transistors will win the current standard of measurement battle. They can look beautiful on paper.
Charles