Your tube preamp and ss amp thread


Last night I was listening to my tube preamp and my tube mono blocks, noticed an imbalance in the sound, and as usual I traced it to a tube problem in the mono blocks. Luckily, I also own a ss stereo amp as a 'backup'. IME, ss amps tend to be a lot more reliable than tube amps. Nonetheless, I would be interested in how many other folk run a tube preamp and ss amp combo, and if so, what are your choices.
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Most guitar players I know, including myself, utilize tube amps for the simple reason that we want a tube amps distortion capabilities, along with the clean channel. Not because we believe the tube amps to be more reliable. YMMV.
Pass XA25 with Linear Tube Audio MZ2. I’ve enjoyed this combo more than the Supratek.
Pre-amp:
PrimaLuna Prologue 3 running all NOS tubes. 
Power amp:
Audio Research D400 Mk2.
I run a modded Dynaco PAS3x into a pair of Hafler xl280’s vertically biamped into Vandy 2ci’s