If I'm looking for "Tube Sound", why would I put a Tube Pre in front of a SS amp?

Currently pairing a Shindo Vosne-Romanee pre with a Viola Labs Symphony  amp driving Raidho D2.1 speakers. Rich tonality, detail, layering, large sound stage, emotionally involving...very hard to shut it down and get to bed at a reasonable hour!

The truth is that a tube pre cannot give you the tube sound If you use a SS power amp. The tubes advantages are 3D imaging, openness, soundstaging, and presence. The disadvantage is a coloring of the sound. If you use a SS power amp only a tiny fraction of the tube advantages + all of the disadvantages remain. If you want to have a tube like sound with a SS amp you have to use a single ended class a amp (sugden, first watt)

Very nicely stated and great advice cdk84.

Has anyone in this thread addressed preamp-power amp electrical compatibility? This interface is also important, like the power-amp/speaker interface. Solid state amps tend to have lower input and output impedances than tubed units. Your preamp's output impedance should be at least 10 times lower than the input impedance it sees in the power amp. Other things being equal, this would favor a transistor preamp into a tube power amp, unless the tube preamp's designer has taken steps to lower the output impedance to where it will work with the lower input impedance of a solid state power amp. There are many exceptions. I have one ss power amp with a 100k input which is similar to a tube amp I have. Check your specifications, people. You need to have good electrical matches between all components before assessing sound quality or comparing "tube" vs. transistor sound. 

Atmasphere, I'm not so naïve to think that that type of behavior hasn't been considered before or even after, but as my Jewish friends might exclaim; "What hutzpah!".