What do tube and music have in comon?

All tube system, listening 90% to classical music of all genre (but mostly instrumental), then to blues, folk, celtic and jazz. Almost entirely acoustic music listening, but a small smattering of rock tossed into the mix. Pop does sounds OK here, to the extent the original recording permits, but the system is highly biased to reproducing naturally recorded acoustic music well.
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As with Rushton everything I have comes with tubes. 75% classical orchestral, small groups, and vocal, and 25% jazz instrumental and vocal. My bigget priority is getting the system set up to reproduce the range from 200 hz to 3000 hz as smoothly and cleanly as possible, but I don't mind a bit of really crunching bass for Mahler etc. SS just has not done it for me in the mid/high range. It has always seem sort of flat and undimensional, whereas tubes have been more spacious sounding an more natural. I never buy pop music - if thats on my agenda I find it on the tuner and only then for background.

My system is tube-based, and it sounds splendid with all kinds of music. The choice of tubes you run in your gear is critical. OTOH, I never heard a solid state system that was more than mediocre. IMHO solid state hi-fi is a 45-year long experiment that failed. But if someone wants solid state, that leaves more great tubes on the market for me, and keeps the prices low.

I'm in total agreement with all the above statements. I've owned some decent SS in my day, but since 1996 tubes have been my means for total enjoyment. 95% of my listening is too jazz. I beleive that most of the better recording from the 50s - late 1960s just had a sound that I find more true too the source & were just better recordings. Yes we have firms like Analogue Productions & Classic Records whom make some very beautiful recordings. I think in the end it all about what's truer to the person whom know what music should sound like. [ simple isn't it ?.]