Baloney to a couple of posts here...there are plenty of inexpensive tube amps out there that I’d wager are far superior in every way to cheap SS amps...I owned a Jolida 502 tube power amp for years and it sounded magnificent relative to some well regarded SS amps I’d owned...my bought used but 3 month old Dennis Had single ended pentode tube amp is world class...got it a few years ago for 1100 bucks or so. Also, your speakers don’t know what kind of amp they’re getting and unless they’re very inefficient they’ll likely sound great with even an inexpensive tube amp, relative to mediocre SS. My original version Schiit Freya preamp allows bypassing the tubes (no other preamp I know of does this) which I find useful simply to see if the tubes are wearing out, which is a good thing. I currently rotate my Had amp with a brilliant Pass XA-25 and both are astonishingly good and surprisingly similar in tone since Nelson Pass likes his Class A amps to be "tube like."
Why do Tube Amps sound more romantic v SS amps
Question newbie on tube amps, why are tube amps according to people who own them say the sound is more say romantic sound vs SS amp ?
What is better to own cost wise sound advantage single ended and push pull ?
Thanks guys excuse my inexperience on the tube issue.