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.

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Thank you all I think under these economic stresses & supply issues I will stick with SS amps. I am looking at a Parasound classic 2250 v2 vs Emotiva DR 2 anybody ever own either ? 

Thx you again. 

Keep rocking today alittle Joe Cocker & Leon Russell

I didn't have any interest in tube based amps, until I purchased an efficient pair of speakers. After researching various amps, I went with an 845 18W SET 'A' IA, and have throughly enjoyed listening to the music it conveys. I also replaced my SS DAC, with a tube based DAC. My knowledge of tube families and how they sound is shallow, I have swapped tubes in my DAC. 

Tube or SS?  Who cares listen to the music not the gear.

Says you.

I like to listen to the gear sometimes. I like to focus on the sound not the music. 

If music was the only point, as you suggest, no one would be filling this forum about how things sound. But they do. 

"Audiophile" is a lover of sound. 

 

In the field of electronics and sound production, HiFi has a requirement to produce and electronics that is purifying the sound being produced.

All other electronics produced for sound production are usually designed to distort sound in some shape or form, or control sound that is to be recorded.

In the world of listening to music where electronics are involved, it is nearly all listening to the Gear and the Sound that is a result of the Gear.

Meet an Acoustic Guitarist Performing in an Open Place with only the guitar, is as natural a sound as one can hope for, meet the same Acoustic Guitar and a Microphone and Amp is involved, not so Natural a Sound, meet the same Acoustic Guitar Plugged into an Amp and sound produced via a speaker, not natural.

Meet an Electric Guitar plugged into a selection of foot peddle sound control boxes and Amp, listened to through Speakers, definitely listening to the Sound produced by the Gear, as a result of the Guitarists capabilities.

Put any of the above into a recording studio, and through a mixing consul.

Well the gist is outlined.