Troll question. How old are you?
Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better?
Yes tubes are more involved and require periodic maintenance. Hybrid tube components need not apply, these are really solid state.
Tubes are better for multiple reasons and yet the world and the trade prefers solid state. Those rare audio shops that are geared toward stereo listening and serious connoisseurs tend to Focus more on tubes. Those in business who like to improve volumes tend to offer solid state. All the YouTube channels looking to improve their business tend to be solid state. Maybe because tubes require much more expertise to sell, and there's lesser and lesser to go around. Solid state is more of a fast food commodity.
Tubes are difficult for businesses due to all the maintenance and complexity so you see it less often. Much much easier to sell hybrids or solid state.
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@jumia Actually its easily supported if you understand how distortion interacts with the ear. If you lack that information, then solid state appears the winner hands down. FWIW, tubes have been around a long time since being declared ’obsolete’ (which was the 1960s- imagine that idea in the face of germanium transistors 🤣). They’ve actually been around longer than when they were the only game in town. So there is an economic ’support’ as well- if tubes were really inferior they would have been gone 6 decades ago! So you don’t really need to know the engineering about why solid state has had troubles ending tubes in audio. The economic reality is enough. I outlined what the engineering problem with solid state is in prior posts so will not repeat myself here. Despite all this I’m not saying that tubes are superior at this point, as you will see if you read my prior posts.
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