Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better?

Ahem....*clears keys v. throat, which y'all wouldn't hear anyway...*

A little virtual demo....*s*

I have 2 stakes at hand, and a large primitive mallet in hand.  The ss and tube entities are trussed, unable to escape.

*Drives stakes into both....(sorry y'all miss the choreography involved in doing the driving simultaneously, but....a bit of forced mind expansion is good for one....)*

...well, we used to cop that as an excuse for the '60s' into the early '70s', but you get my drift.....;)   😏

There.....task complete....

Now...*jerks stakes out; the entities tremble, and rise up and return to biting the random individuals in the scattering crowd.....zombie-like, they turn to bite those still stunned by the whole event...*

See?  Not a damn thing has changed, the ss zombies are a bit more quick about it so their numbers increase faster....

The tube zombies are more limited, but they don't move as fast.  I think it's a 'warm up' issue....🤷‍♂️

There's is a small group that's getting bit simultaneously....but they're a little confused for the time being....need to watch over them.... *G* ;)

@mahgister ....to wit... ;)

Hilde45 do you suffer from a mental problem with my presence here?

*L*  If anyone should ask that, I think it ought to be me...*vaguely distracted look, having sat on one of the stakes...*

MRI & CT scan analysi came back....CT showed arthritis in my neck...probably from that bunch that tried to string me up with string...(idiots couldn't find their way out of a wet Kraft bag...), the MRI showed the typ deteriorata from age and my left sinus was blocked (which I knew going in...), but the 'funny music' it made has changed me Forever....

....just have to wait 'n see if it was a Good one....or a Badd one.....

Meanwhile....Y'all....Look, Pay ATTENTION....*shesh*

Enjoy what boats your float....sumptin' like that, anyhew....

*drifting off into the distance....*   ...don't make me 'demo again'....it'll just get messier....

...chow ....

@skippytate ...Thanks, Mike...*fist bump*G*

This whole premise (ss v. tube) has been dis-cussed at into the ground ad absurdum with the same dame finality in ones’ lap...

You’re either ss’d....or tube’d. Some ’X-over’, but not lots...

I grew up with tubed things. Yes, they do have their characteristics, and their PIA issues that one can either live with and loved for that.

And that’s Fine.

SS is where the technology went, and is where it’s continuing to go; perhaps to the point where an AI will scan your room, ditto your head and your finances, and ’suggest’ what may make you ’happy’.

....and for many, that’ll be the end of their ’story’, put the book on the nightstand, and go to sleep. Dream of dancing ’bots in tutu’s.....or whatever...*L*

@wolf_garcia ...Hey, I can ’roll’ the chips in my sound card within my ’puter....

Does that count? ;)

There’s ’pro audio’ items of various sorts ’n apps that’ll give you ’tube’ characteristics on demand or in spite of yourself....*LOL*

Does That Account?!

*more L’ing*

You’ve read it here 1st....Soon, coming to a website in your face...

The app-ability to flick between the 2, and to ’dial in’ the amount of the characteristics you yearn for or ’have’ta have’.

’Roll tubes’ without burning your fingers.

Dogs ’n cats procreating; ’dats’ & ’cogs’, and ’fats’ & ’fogs’, when the goldfish get into the mix....

Wait until it gets to US ’umans.....

I might really end up appearing to look like my seagull.....WTF would it feel like, conversing with a bird? *ROTFLMAO*

We’re doomed...enjoy the ’floor show’, even if I don’t want to ’be underfoot’.... ;)

@wolf_garcia :

..serious pricey horn systems are generally powered by pricey tube amps. 

Good point and observation....👍

I've a pair of vintage Utah horns with their matching woofers that are driven with an ss amp and would agree they'd 'prefer' to be driven with a tube amp....and likely, the pre as well.

I snatched them up for being in flawless but dusty shape in trashed cabs for reference' sake.  In the era they were made, tubes were what they'd get attached to, and would perform best with.

Vague plans to treat them to a 'proper' amp at some point....

...speaking of 'snarky'...

I'm happy to see y'all have more/less adhered to topic, and not gotten into 'tube v. ss' and how their cables can affect their appreciation.....

(Will check back later, to see if this has set off the eq of an IED..😏...)

Do carry on....

" @emergingsoul  went fishing one day, hoping to catch a bass or another tasty tidbit......

....what surprised was 'the hit', followed by the reel exploding from the speed strength and heat, hooking the Great White....."

It's all in the bait....;)