tube or solid state phono amp with a tube integrated amplifier?

List your equipment. It helps to know what you’re pairing. I run tube phono into tube amps. It depends on budget, space, MM/MC, taste, asthetic etc.

Depends on the sound your looking for tubes are always warmer sounding solid state has better bass.

Tubes are not always warmer. Some solid state amps can be slow and rolled off just like a poorly implemented tube amp. What tubes can bring is a tangible palpability to the music, a more fleshed-out dimensionality, air, space and transparency. There are many variables—circuit configuration, tube quality, uality of the passive components etc.