Why so many tubes?


Many of the most expensive tube amps/preamp have multiple tubes...6, 8, 10. If direct path is preferred in the speaker by most, why the acceptance of a glass army in one's amp/preamp? 
jpwarren58

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if the op is seriously asking the question, the answer is quite different from preamps and power amps

each has reasons, different reasons, to use few vs multiple tubes 
@jpwarren58

Not a troll thread at all. Seems like a complicated way to reproduce music.
please enlighten us, what would be a simpler way?

So some of tubes are the same as the power transformers?

https://splice.com/blog/vacuum-tubes-in-music/

https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/transformer/audio-transformer.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_audio_amplifier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj3LNHqUt3A

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/building-a-valve-amplifier-part-1-design-components-and-layout

as you posted the original query, hope you have the patience to absorb the info above for some basic knowledge on the subject
One would think after 117 years of evolution (1904, invention of the vacuum tube) and with only 4 other components involved (R, C, L, transformer) engineers would have reached the optimal configuration for a tube amplifier by now.

when did they invent the cow?

would think they'd have figured out the optimal configuration for cooking a steak by now...