Beginner looking for guidance into tube sound.

Tube sound is a myth save your money for better speakers.

https://audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/if-tube-sound-is-a-myth-why-tubes.8656/

Now were talking! Thank you for the link! I will check into these this is the direction I really wanted to go. Or think I want to go!
Thanks again!

I have one of his affordable model preamps with the separate power supply, it made my krell amp sound way better than the solid state preamp I was using.

What you are going through is exactly what I went through. Only for me it was around 1973. I had paper route money, and a bicycle to take me to Radio Shack, where I devoured all I could read and picked the brains of everyone there who knew anything. 

Anyone who does this a couple things become clear: if you buy inefficient speakers there is not enough power in the world to make them sound good, but you can spend a fortune trying. If you buy separates you can spend a fortune trying to make them sound better than a good integrated amp, but in this case you might at least get there eventually, if you have enough money. And you can try and stuff everything into one box, but while it may seem to save money one thing interferes with another and so it just never works.

Therefore, high sensitivity speakers (which is kind of arbitrary but never anything less than 92dB) and an integrated amp is the way to go. Until and unless you have piles and piles of money and a burning desire to spend it all this is the way to go.

If you get something like that Decware integrated you will absolutely have freaking mesmerizing captivating amazing sound. You will also not be able to play real loud, at least not with your current speakers. You will also not have real powerful bass, again not with your current setup.

But you will have an absolutely awesome sound from what you do have. That is the tradeoff. The fact of the matter no one will tell you is really high quality is not expensive. What is expensive is extending that really high quality into high volume range, especially when it comes to bass.  

But for bass the solution is a DBA. So if you are smart you wait and make do with everything except bass and high volume. Then when you can afford quality speakers you match that Decware with some Tekton, man now you got something. Then when you have another $3k you add a DBA. Now you pretty much have it all. But in stages, and so it took some time. But you had superb quality from the beginning, just not in the deep bass high volume ranges.

That's the compromise. Maybe on the other hand you want high volume now, and that is more important than quality. Or whatever. It is after all your system. Prioritize and plan accordingly.

IMO, adding a tube preamp would be advantageous to using a tube buffer. This way you’d have an active component which contributes to the function and sonic signature of your system with no additional noise.

Tube sound is a myth save your money for better speakers.

I used to think that way, until I tried a tube preamp with my solid state amp, less ear piercing and more enjoyable, never a headache at loud volumes.