Tube or solid state rectification


In regards to tube preamps and amplifiers what are the benifits of tubes for rectifiers? and what advantage if any with interstage transformers in place of a quality coupling capacitor such as a vcap or mundorf? High end tubegear seems split with these choices.

Thanks
Charles
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I like tube rectifiers more because the ones I've heard
usually sound more natural and musical.I've have not been
able to compare enough of the interstage transformer amps
vs. coupling caps.Freinds of mine that like high end Triode
amps lean toward transformer coupling if design permits.I
don't think anyone could really say one is better than the
other in every case though.