Are tubes psychological?

Tubes are in fact philosophical I cannot even see mine and they still speak to me and relax me. And sound good. And have meaning. 😉

Science tells us there is no music, just various patterns of compression waves. There is no thought, just voltage potentials propagating along neurons and across synapses. But those very neurons are all just patterns of electric fields bonding valence shells. And yet for all that here we are thinking, more or less, and questioning. Are tubes psychological?

What isn’t?

Is it any surprise that people describe tube components as sounding "warm" considering many tubes produce tactile heat? Whoever started that silliness didn't work too hard to come up with it.

I rarely listen with my Luxman SS any more. The Mctubes just sound nice. Whereas the Luxman somehow seems sterile.

My all-tranny Mytek server+phono stage generates a good two-thirds the heat as my eight tube integrated PrimaLuna. Plus, there's no on/off switch like the PL's got. When I switch my components off for the night, the Primaluna cools to room temp. Meantime, the Mytek, even on Stand By, still stays warm and sucks from the grid.