Tube preamplifier lifespan


Do tube preamplifiers, excluding tube replacements, have shorter lives than solid state preamps?

onehorsepony

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I have a Sonic Frontiers preamp built in '94 that still sounds great.   Many small signal tubes can last 10,000 hours , that's a lot of listening time.   

I've had it about 5 years and it still works flawlessly.