Tubes vs Solid State

I think what sounds best is more dependent on the rest of your system. I personally have never cared for tubes in my system but I have very laid back components and tubes made it sound mushy. Thats not to say that tubes cant sound good only that it wasnt a good match for what I had.

tubes will reproduce good recordings closer to the way they were intended to sound then s.s.-that is with the right mix of equipment and room acoustics.basically trial and error-hopefully less error!I don't think I will ever have my system perfect,but it's fun trying.

Degustibus non disputandum. Hey folks, we are talking about audio perception (and that's all it is) that is so refined that we are detecting bats in the belfry.