Tube Preamp with Solid State Amp?

I've been using a tube preamp with solid state amps for quite a while now.  My system is a mix of hi fi and pro sound gear.  I modified a peavey project one stack.  I replaced the tweeter driver with a selenium compression horn driver and Celestion drivers for the mid horn cabinet and Focal polyglass drivers in the horn loaded bass cabinets.  I got rid of the crossovers and switched to a dbx driverack pa+ electronic crossover.  The speakers are now tri amped with yamaha digital p7000s amps.   The tube preamp is a dared class a sl2000a model with Brimar rectifier and various 12at7 tubes.   I primarily use an Amazon fire TV cube coupled with a  hdmi audio extractor.   This way I can ship the hdmi video signal to a DVDO hd50 pro scaler and then to the projector.   I use a transparent audio power cord on the tube preamp as well as all the yamaha power amps.   I'm running balanced interconnects to the crossover and amps.  I had to make my own converted balanced cables from the rca outputs on the preamp.   From there I had to figure out the gain structure of the system in setting up the crossover.   I'm also running a pair of tc sounds 15 inch subs in stereo configuration.  I'm using an audio control phase coupled activator as the crossover for those.  All the speaker wire is analysis plus.  I'm leaving out more Information but I've probably bored you guys already.

Yes. It’s a great appetizer. Gets you there part of the way in hybrid fashion if you love the sound of tubes.  For me, it was not quite the full coarse meal. While I enjoyed running my 6SN7 triode based preamplifier with my class A/AB solid state amps, I went back. Eventually the SS amp got replaced too.  

I upgraded to a Tim De Paravicini EAR 868 preamp this year.  An older  classic tube design. I gave it some thought and came to the conclusion that newer does not always mean better.  This was a very wise decision.  Some things in audio seem to have a quality that is timeless. 

Using a VTL 5.5 series 1 pure tube preamp and dual 120 watt monoblocks from Odyssey, with a 150 watt B&W sub running Klipsch reference speakers with a tube Jolida CD player. The bass is phenomenal, low end to the point of foundation shaking, thumbing, with very rich mid-bass. The tube preamp opens up the richness of the music. The VTL reduces the harsh CD sound, eliminates the compressed sound. Jazz bass, classical music chelo and double bass is rich full and very present whereas the solid state preamp failed misabarley. I used a Acurus preamp for years, it was quiet and clear as a bell, but sounded compressed.  Solid state monoblock rock the bass huge. The owner of Odyssey said flat out that these mono blocks are made for a tube preamplifier. Man this system is so rich , just love it. It is very difficult for a system to replicate a symphony orchestra, but this system does a great in doing so.