Need help picking my first tube amp

Chinese tube amps are good. Many mainstream manufactures like PrimaLuna are made in China. No worries. I'll look for a basic push-pull EL34 tube integrated that is hard wired because the circuit design is simple and repairs are as well down the road.

Yeah I actually watch his reviews he's very good and I've been looking at some of those amps but I need to have a headphone jack too.

I have a Yaqin mc 13s with gold lion tubes I don't currently use. I have had it for several years and have enjoyed it toughly. No headphone jack though.

My advice would be choose your speaker matching well. 8 ohm , high efficiency speakers will sound the best. In your price range, you will be underwhelmed with tubes + <4 ohm 84db speakers. I matched the Yaqin to a pair of ELAC Uni-Fi bookshelf's at first and it was meh. Built some DIY high efficiency speakers and it was magic.

My question is, to get the warm tube sound that I enjoy, do I get a tube preamp or power amp to start. I would also be interested to hear what everyone’s take on a good entry level component without having the budget constraint.

Well I can get an excellent deal on an emotiva base x a-100.  I'm thinking of buying that because it has a headphone jack and it's got a crazy insane headphone power and then trying to hook up some type of tube amp to it a little small portable one that could sit on top of it I may go that route.