From tubes back to SS?

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'.... :)

My first system was a Zenith portable (Victrola). This was 1958 so of course it was all tubes. Eventually I stopped using it when I was given the OK to use my father's system. Bozak B 103s, Stereo 70, HH Scott preamp and tuner. Rec o cut TT with a huge ESL arm. And the best part, an Ampex Tape machine also all tubes. Back then you could get prerecorded tapes of just about anything and boy did they sound good. In 1967 I built my first real system with a Dyna Stereo 70 and PAS 3X. 
The only tube equipment I have owned since are a Marantz 7C preamp
and several ARC phono amps. From the Stereo 70 I made a huge jump to the FuzzLinear 700. Then I got into ESLs and my first ones, Acoustat Xs came with their own special high voltage tube amps. Trying to compare them with other amps is hard. They did what they were designed for very well. With the addition of sub woofers they were punchy enough. In 1982 I got a set of Krell KMA 100s and have only owned class A SS amps since. Regular tube amps just do not work well with ESLs. Now there is Atma-Sphere which I have not been able to hear yet but are certainly a consideration as ESL owners seem to be very happy with them.