Tube Phono Stage vs Solid State What do you think?

As usual Raul is very positive and as usual I disagree with him. I just sold my Denon DL-S1 as I found my AT 33 EV to be better. My phono stage, the same ASR Exclusive that he warns you not to buy. I have a 2006 version which is the best I have had ; it is well liked by my friends who have chosen tube units. One has the Tron, for example. My version of THE TRUTH is this: both tubes and SS can sound great but they are unlikely to sound the same; the choice is yours to make. Your system and taste should determine which you buy, no one else can get inside your head and hear they way you do. Of course, it is difficult if not impossibe to hear things these days so we are all dependent to a large degree on what we hear from others. What I try to do is find reviewers or posters who like the same type of sound as I do and place some faith in their views. For instance when I was considering Gamut speakers I noticed a positive review on Dagogo about them. I ended up getting the L5s and really like them. A few months later I had a chance to get an Audia Flight line stage at a good price; the fact that the same revewer also used it in his system was part of the reason I decided to get it. I have also been happy with it. So try to identify revewers/posters who share your taste if possible; knowing your own taste is the begining of wisdom in audio,

"But not" is exactly my response to most of Raul's posts. It is facinating to me that after years of recomending obsolete MM cartridges he is now singing the virtues of a moving coil. Does that mean his earlier posts are no longer valid? Unlike him I judge componets by the way they sound and not what is inside; some very good equeptment uses opamps, some junky ones do too. Ditto tubes, ditto mosfets and so on. While we are slinging mud let me say if he had better speakers he might have different opinions.