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

Do you guys have the same joke writer? I trust you’re not paying him very much.

Ha, ha!  You are such a funny guy. 🐍💩

I've used a few decent SS guitar amps over 5 decades of being a professional musician, and by few I mean few, and by decent I mean simply OK...Music man hybrids with a SS front end and tube output, a "Legend" amp with a tube front end a SS output, a Fender London Reverb...etc., and always returned to tubes...my trusty '61 Fender Blonde Bandmaster, 60 Deluxe, a couple of Fender Twins, Boogies, a Matchless combo, Marshalls, and my current faves are a Reverend Goblin 5/15 6V6 combo and a Burris Royal Bluesman single ended Class A 18 watt EL84 head...you get the point. Tube amps respond to your guitar touch and, either clean or overdriven, are simply right. My hifi rig currently features a Had hand built SEP amp and a Freya preamp through efficient speakers, and sounds more alive and beautiful than any SS amp setup I've owned over many decades...better in all ways, period. Plus, tubes are more fun.

A blind dog finds a bone every once in a while. 

“Tubes are for rubes.” -Lee Deforest, channeled by Kait thingy. 🐍💩

Many of us listen to orchestral music, and don’t care for the screeching wail of electrically amplified instruments, which sounds like a cat in heat.  🙀🐍💩