Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first?


What do you guys think?

If transistors came first, and then decades later tubes were invented, would we have any tube amps we would call high end?

Wouldn’t they all fail to reach the height of performance and transparency set by transistor amps?

Best,

E

P.S. I love Conrad Johnson. I'm just wondering how  much of our arguments have to do with timing. 
erik_squires
@Dave. I’m no misanthrope. I had a very complete secondary school education, followed by university, and professional school, then a higher degree. 
maritime51,

Maybe you can make a Tubuary. Some art made of old tubes and then bring transistors to see it. The sign would say

"what you do now, we did when we were lit
just like we are now, you will be obsolete"
maritime51,

Stop confusing our humble scribe. Google will start charging him for all these searches.
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