From tubes back to SS?

There are still some guys above ground who started with tubes 'cause that's all there was. My first amp was a Fisher X-100A integrated, a nice place to start. Moved on to an AR integrated (solid state, of course), then a Mac C26 pre amp and MC2100 power. In '71 Audio Research started the high end revolution, so it was onward and upward to an SP-3 and D51 & D75 bi-amping the original Magneplanar Tympani T-I. Been tubes ever since, with ss sometimes on dynamic woofers/subs.

I started with tubes when I was a kit, and literally pulled gear from dumpsters and rebuilt it because I had no money.
Friends on mine in high school were all like- 'when are you going to get into the space age?' as if all aerospace gear was somehow all transistor...
That eventually happened. But on my old Altec corner horns and also on my Fulton 80s the solid state was less fulfilling.  So I gunned the solid state electronic crossover and the SWTP Tiger and went to all tubes.

Then I figured out how to do OTLs and I was toast. I did try some solid state amps- the Electron Kinergetics Eagle, BEL 101, Bryston, Pass Labs but none of them seemed to make bass right and the highs were less involving. So I'm still doing tubes...

I started with tubes when I was a kit

Dang. Always knew this day would come. AI?

 literally pulled gear from dumpsters and rebuilt it because I had no money.

Seriously though, this story is right out of Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman!

See: He Fixes Radio's By Thinking
http://sistemas.fciencias.unam.mx/~compcuantica/RICHARD%20P.%20FEYNMAN-SURELY%20YOU%27RE%20JOKING%20...

Ralph, you mentioned a couple of my favorites (BEL 1001, EK Eagle 2, which I still have); how 'bout the Bedini 25/25? ;-)

I never got to hear that one except at a CES where I met Mr. Bedini. He was giving out a publication he created about free energy.
And of course earlier I meant 'kid' when I wrote 'kit'.... :)