Solid states more accurate than tubes?


Ever since I changed speakers from a pair of Maggie's to Proac's, I find the tonal balance more accurate with a ss, especially acoustic wood instruments. Tubes seem to lack that tonal accuracy. I believe it's a more realistic and accurate rendering. Is that a fair assessment? I'm not arguing tubes don't sound good with it's rich, warm sound but just not as accurate. 
jaferd
this is such a complex question; beginning with "is accuracy always what we want?" and "on what distortion weighting algorithm do you define accuracy?"
bell Labs and H.264/MPEG both championed subjective testing to optimize trade offs. Neither are exactly audiofools as the word goes....

Music theory tells us that there are distortions that are consonant and others that are dissonant. The finest pianos and violins have significant consonant distortion, from their cases and sounding boards. Is that a bad thing? Down with Steinway and Boesendorfer?

Obviously there is a wide spectrum within each camp as well. Old CJ stuff was lush but wildly inaccurate. I suspect, but cannot prove, that some SS gear is in many ways accurate but generates enough dissonant distortion to be no enjoyable (on some music anyway).

And then there is the SS gear explicitly designs to minimize the dissonant distortions ("SS sound") - whether you buy that logic or not. I actually do but warn that its really hard since we rarely know everything to measure. Wish I did.
G
Again, it is all about the design.  Have you heard a 101D DHT tube sound?  I find SS has a sorter decay so piano never sound correct to my ears but again it depends on the amp design.
The way I see it, let the makers sweat the specs.  Let the listener sweat the "Wow."  ...And I ain't talking about turntable speed instability.
Tube pre with SS amp is the way to go IMHO, best of both worlds if you can get the synergy right
’accuracy’ is over sold and under delivers

sympathetic distortion is the name of the game

we are painting a watercolour here, not fastidiously documenting an actual event